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Trade is a women's issue.

Publication: Foreign Policy in Focus
Publication Date: 10-DEC-02 		Format: Online - approximately 778 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Key Points

* Global trade's profits rely on the labor of women workers worldwide, as women make up more than half the work force in the light manufacturing industries that provide most of the world's household goods.

* Women workers face a host of problems including low wages, long hours, unsafe working conditions, harassment, sexual abuse, and discrimination.

* Trade negotiators have begun to discuss women's issues but are still a long way from developing practical protections for women workers.

From coffee to computers, women workers provide the labor that creates the goods that appear in the world's supermarkets and department stores. Women workers are good for trade, but is trade good for women workers?...

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