GLOBALIZATION ADVANCING THE CAUSE OF WOMEN RIGHTS

Bayes and Tohidi outline Women rights,as one of features of “modernity”, have been
one component of globalization promoted. While some sociologist famously
advocated for this relationship by claiming that “globalization refers to transformation
happening on the level of everyday life” and the growing equality between men and
women is one of the biggest changes for past 30 years. Globalization should not be
confine to economic globalization rather can take a social and political form as well.
Social and political globalization is the primary impact on human right as a broad
category encompassing of human rights. Through qualitative historical analysis of
prevailing definition of globalization they found out that basic human rights have
been reconciled across the globe since what he identified as climactic event in global
human rights history: the 1948 Universal Declaration of human rights and this
resulted in a “practical moral wisdom recognizable across cultural differences are
unshakeable because of the shared facts beliefs and commonalities. A central element
of UNDR is the “equal right of men and women”. Political globalization as an
impetus for economic globalization and human rights attempt to identify an inherent
linkage between the “similar intellectual linage” of international trade and human
rights law, “reflecting a liberal commitment to the importance of the rule of
law,private property,economic markets,representative democracy,education and limits
on social inequality”.

Human rights which include women rights is underscored by time-series analysis

which indicates a generally positive relationship between economic globalization and
women’s economic rights.Generalized estimation equation (GEE) conclude that
“women status in a given country appears to be reliably associatedwith that country’s
involvement in global economy”. Permeating the literature on globalization effect on
women rights is the analysis of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) economic rights.
Researcher analyze the impact of FDI on gender equality. Through their statistical
model,by increasing female specialization and employment through FDI
predominantly female industries,by foreign technologies and by Corporate social
responsibility (CSR) initiative advocating for gender neutral policies Authors
discovers that FDI inflows are positively associated with gender development (women
are better off) and negatively correlated with gender inequality .So women must have
legal opportunity to earn economic profits and own all form of legitimate property in
order to benefit from globalization. They label “spatial dependence” in which greater
trade openness spills-over into higher levels of human rights in all nations except
lower income nations, so they conclude that “general trade openness as well as
spillover effects working via trade links appear to be aspects of globalization that
have beneficial impact on women’s right” In conclusion,economic globalization still
has a positive correlation with women’s empowerment,but it is ascribed primarily to
trade rather than FDI.