How has globalization affected gender issues?

As with
all inquiry into globalization, the answer is complex.  On one hand, I think that a case can be
made that globalization has constructed a homogeneity where generating wealth and its
accumulation are the only elements that matter.  Globalization has blurred gender issues with
its emphasis on material consumerism and the idea that technological advances can make everyone
"the same."  A case can be made that globalization has empowered the those in the
position of power and the drive for money has reduced the complexity of gender issues to issues
of wealth and poverty.  In this light, the focus on class and material reality has obscured the
fight for gender equality.  Globalization has sought to make the international bazaar one in
which we examine commercial progress and access to the benefits of such progress, sometimes at
the cost of gender issues or gender awareness.  In a world linked by cellular technology, driven
by the latest "tablet," and one where Skyping and...

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