Editing Feminism (section)

=== Neoliberalism ===

[[Neoliberalism]] has been criticized by feminist theory for having a negative effect on the female workforce population across the globe, especially in the global south. Masculinist assumptions and objectives continue to dominate economic and geopolitical thinking.<ref name="Peterson">{{cite book |last=Peterson |first=V. Spike |date=2014 |chapter=International/Global Political Economy |editor-last=Shepherd |editor-first=Laura J. |title=Gender Matters in Global Politics |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C2AKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT291 |edition=2 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-75259-1}}</ref>{{rp|177}} Women's experiences in non-industrialized countries reveal often deleterious effects of modernization policies and undercut orthodox claims that development benefits everyone.<ref name="Peterson"/>{{rp|175}}

Proponents of neoliberalism have theorized that by increasing women's participation in the workforce, there will be heightened economic progress, but feminist critics have stated that this participation alone does not further equality in gender relations.<ref name="elias">{{cite book |last1=Elias |first1=Juanita |last2=Ferguson |first2=Lucy |date=2014 |chapter=Production, Employment, and Consumption |editor-last=Shepherd |editor-first=Laura J. |title=Gender Matters in Global Politics |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C2AKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT291 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-75259-1}}</ref>{{rp|186–98}} Neoliberalism has failed to address significant problems such as the devaluation of feminized labor, the structural privileging of men and masculinity, and the politicization of women's subordination in the family and the workplace.<ref name="Peterson"/>{{rp|176}} The "feminization of employment" refers to a conceptual characterization of deteriorated and devalorized labor conditions that are less desirable, meaningful, safe, and secure.<ref name="Peterson"/>{{rp|179}} Employers in the global south have perceptions about feminine labor and seek workers who are perceived to be undemanding, docile and willing to accept low wages.<ref name="Peterson"/>{{rp|180}} Social constructs about feminized labor have played a big part in this, for instance, employers often perpetuate ideas about women as "secondary" income earners to justify their lower rates of pay and not deserving of training or promotion.<ref name="elias"/>{{rp|189}}