Quiet Revolution: Can Globalization Help Women Out of Traditional Roles?

Television, internet and travelers send new ideas around the globe and that includes changing roles for women in business and government. As more females become the “face of power,” this also changes business and government traditions, explains Barbara Supp in an article for Spiegel Online. Globalization and the new ideas it delivers often runs”up against archaic social ideas that cement drastic inequality between the sexes,” Supp writes. “Globalization attacks backward gender roles in Vietnam, encourages women in Yemen to shed their veils and gives European women economic power.” Full recognition or equality has yet to be achieved, as the director of Amnesty International points out that women own 1 percent of assets in all countries and perform two-thirds of all work, including unpaid labor, yet receive10 percent of total wages worldwide. Still, women have greater control of their destiny and can determine the meaning of progress in terms of money or values, knowledge or security. – YaleGlobal