Globalization and the Women’s Movement in India

From the early 1990s, the principal economic, social and political problems experienced by the mass of Indian women have, in one way or another, become inextricably linked with the processes and policies of liberalisation led globalization. Struggles around basic food security, health, education, women’s employment, livelihood and conditions of work, declining child sex ratios, commoditisation of women and human relations with attendant growth in violence against women, expansion of dowry, etc. have all necessitated a degree of confrontation between the women’s movement and economic and social practices being established by globalization. URL: [http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPaper/GlobalisationReport.pdf]