Women and Globalisation Positive aspects of globalisation Negative aspects of globalisation - Access for everyone to a large variety of goods pro-- Destroys jobs, women's jobs as well, duced all over the world, - prices drop due to world-wide competition,- increase of informal low-paid work, - due to world-wide competition earnings decline and pov­erty increases. Those who are poor, cannot afford even low prices, - enhances world-wide communication through new me­dia and the internet, - increases possibilities of transnational exchange, - leads to impoverishment of women, above all, - strengthens the market that has always placed women at a disadvantage, - internationalisation of companies leads to a growing international network among trade unions and women, - global activities of companies make their standards com­parable, the compliance with national standards can be claimed elsewhere, - accelerates the dissemination of technical progress, - weakens the social state and social security legislation which protects women and children, - gives rise to insecurity in private and family life, due to shorter terms and devaluation of traditional ways of further education, - devaluates training not necessarily leading to a good job anymore, - financial funds and credits are available and comparable world-wide, - opens new personal horizons and perspectives, - destroys local, domestic production that cannot be pro­tected from global competition, - dependence on imports, - financial transactions, flow of capital and goods are be­yond the influence of national policies and are no longer controllable, - commercialisation of society; trend towards purchases of luxury goods and towards a throw-away society, - increase of corporate profits,- weakens trade unions, makes them subject to extortion (international comparison of salaries and wages), - increases the dependence of developing countries on industrialised nations, - widens the gap between employers and employees and reduces their sphere of influence, - creates fear and stress resulting in loss of motivation and loss of self-confidence, - privatisation of public property costs jobs, - privatisation of public services eliminates guaranteed services for the weak, - new technologies force workers to get accustomed to them and create new forms of alienation, - elite alliances to the detriment of smaller companies, - loss of sovereignty for individuals and for the civil so­ciety regarding the global economy, - creates a world society of risk, - widens the gap between rich and poor, - goes along with re-privatisation or re-familiarisation, i.e. unpaid household and family work of women is maxi­mised, - devaluation of the qualification potential inherent in homework,