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1998 IDRF Fellow Teri Caraway challenges the notion that globalization has been beneficial in improving the lives of women workers by opening more employment opportunities. Despite the increase of women in the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inequalities at work have remained largely in tact. Using a multileveled methodology, Caraway addresses two important questions: What has prompted the feminization of manufacturing work in developing countries, and why has it failed to significantly erode gender inequalities at work? She combines case studies and in-depth analysis of employment changes in Indonesia with cross-national data to show that the feminization of the workplace produced by industrialization policies has only served to reproduce, rather than overturn, gender divisions of labor at work. Buy from Amazon.