Gender Inequality and Industrial Development: The Household Connection
Author(s)
Young, Gay
Abstract
This analysis elaborates some of the factors that maintain gender inequality under conditions of industrial development. It also speaks to the issue of prospects for equality between men and women in light of basic changes in the conditions of social life in newly industrializing areas. Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico’s northern border across from El Paso, Texas, presents an analytic example, but the ideas developed here have relevance for other contexts in which export-led economic development is also “female-led”, for example, the newly industrializing countries (NICs) of Asia (in particular, the “Four Dragons” – Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore).
