EMPLOYMENT

The Impact of Free Trade Zone Employment

The Impact of Free Trade Zone Employment

Introduction

Many inquiries have been increased considering the interaction of gender and export-led industrialization (Deere et al., 1990, Louat et al., 1993, Razavi, 1999 S. Razavi, Export-oriented employment, poverty and gender: challenged accounts, Development and Change 30 (1999), pp. 653-683. Razavi, 1999, Safa, 1995a, Safa, 1995c and Sassen, 2000). Two superior paradigms are exploitation and opening approaches. Exploitation contentions focus detrimental work conditions, low wages, and work segregation (Benería, 1994, Safa, 1995c and Tinker, 1976). Opportunity advances focus income accessibility, income command, and boost of employment choices for women (Joekes, 1995 and McLachlan and Aguilar, 1998). Emphasized in opening frameworks are topics associated to the assistance of paid employment and market participation. This assistance continue to women's economic self-reliance, administration, as well as house health, nourishment security, nutrition grades, education, family lodgings, enhancement in transport, and community health (Katz, 2000, Kiteme, 1992, Krieger, 2000 and Lim, 1997).

 

Literature Review

The theoretical relevancy of connecting gender and health issues has been supported by the connection between women's health and the well-being of their young children, husbands, and families (Allen, 1997). In this consider, feminist theorists have made a wealthy publications interpreting the interaction between gender, economic development, prescribed employment, and health. Within the context of economic globalization, numerous feminist frameworks connection contradictory gender conclusions to the consequences of patriarchy and capitalism (Chhachhi, 1999, Elson and Pearson, 1997, Lim, 1997, Moore, 1995 and Ross and Gladwin, 2000). For example, fundamental feminists contend that male domination in the public and personal sphere account for a significant share of gender disparities in a variety of communal conclusions, encompassing health. Socialist feminists glimpse capitalism and patriarchy as an interrelated scheme that curtails women's get access to socioeconomic, political, and heritage resources. Other feminist frameworks study gender inequality by identifying the unaligned interaction of capitalism and patriarchy while contemplating “the possibilities in which capitalism is probable to hinder patriarchy,” yielding affirmative conclusions for women (Ross & Gladwin, 2000, pp. 43-45).

The gender and employment publications are full of accounts of both beneficial and detrimental consequences of employment rank on women's health. The Role Substitution hypothesis forecasts affirmative health consequences for engaged women (Waldron, Weiss, & Hughes, 1998). Accordingly, employment rises well-being by supplying income and communal support. These assets assist to decrease poverty, economic volatility and advance house riches, which are important components in forecasting psychological anguish and susceptibility to infection (Ross and Mirowsky, 1995 and Waldron et al., 1998). Positive conclusions are glimpsed amidst engaged wed women and wed women who affirm an affirmative mind-set in the direction of employment.

 

Methods

(a). Data source

This study is founded on the 1996 DHS survey. The DHS review is a nationwide likelihood sample of 8 000 families in the Dominican Republic. The review wrappings modules on health, education, headship classes, income, material riches, lodgings, house composition, age, and employment. Adults from randomly chosen families are interviewed.

The sample encompasses 693 feminine and male heads of families engaged in the free trade zones and other ...