Globalization And Women Empowerment Assignment 2022

Running head: GLOBALIZATION AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
GLOBALIZATION AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
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GLOBALIZATION AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
The globalization creating an enormous transformation raises the arguments that there
is a large number of rising middle-class family in West Bengal where women empowerment
is stuck in a dichotomy between the real capacitating ability and the adverse effect of the
newly acquired liberal structure of the society. The other arguments on one hand says the
impact of globalization does not really uplift the position of the women because of the
prevailing gender inequality some women, on the other it gives them a superior air of
emancipation in household chores (Ganguly-Scrase 2003). There might be possibility of
larger opportunity to usurp the already existing and ongoing patriarchal culture in West
Bengal through the course of globalization by introducing some policies starting from
economic independence of women to securing safety in workplace and claiming for equal
remuneration in any kind of field (Deb and Sen 2016).
Now the concerning matter is how much of the society in West Bengal is under the
light of the liberalization. Most of the people are under-privileged rather they do not even
know what liberalization means. Therefore it cannot be claimed that the women are
empowered entirely. In fact some part of the society which can be considered as developing
are slowly progressing towards equality but simultaneously the women are victimized in the
work places, in public place or in her own house as well (Baker and Leicht 2017). The fact
that there have been employment of women in political parties, rising in the number of
women intellectuals, women’s exploration in innovative professional fields competing with
the men give a certain idea of the empowerment of women due to the change in structure but
truly all the sections in West Bengal do not contain the same picture. Some women still wait
for their husband to come, serve them food and then take their own neglecting her own
hunger confirming too the norm, some are still afraid of returning home late due to the unsafe
condition of women on road while some remain silent even after getting molested because
society would consider her to be a fallen women not the men (Sarkar 2017). Many women