When the telephone was invented, a faster and more reliable form of communication was born.
Needless to prove, most have been benefited. The same is true with the birth of bullet trains and railway transits, the birth of computers, security gadgets and device. Along with their long list of benefits comes the list of their disadvantages well-researched and proven by the experts in their respective fields. What I am trying to point out is that there is always a disadvantage that comes along with the benefits brought about by anything.In order to reap the benefits of development, there has to be sacrifices that we should endure. With the presence of phones, people tend to spend less time with personal (face-to-face) communication. With faster means of transportation, lesser people had the chance of doing the walking exercise.
Because computers and the internet are already available, people spend lesser time in browsing books while children spend more time with computer games. With the modern security gadgets and device, the chance of exploiting other people’s privacy is already an easy task.It has to be clear to the readers that I am not saying that with technological advancement, we don’t have the choice but to accept the disadvantages they bring to our lives. The point is, there seems to be nothing yet invented that perfectly fits human lives and the other inhabitants of the earth, that is, along with a good thing comes the bad side of it. Our responsibility therefore is to weigh things. Of course, we should choose the one which will bring us the lesser evil, if that is the most fitted word.Development is a trend and development is the driver of globalization. When we mean trend, we mean that things really have to go this way or that way.
When we say trend, we mean flow. So globalization is a flow of development; a progress that goes all the way from local to regional then to global. However, there have been arguments and worldwide debates that plague the concept of globalization for a long time. Members of the different sectors of the society have split ideas that seem to be breaking humanity into fragments.
The scientific community, the naturalist groups, and the feminists clash their opinions as to whether globalization will bring good stuff to humanity or will hurt most of us. With globalization, will humanity end up as winners or losers? Before these critical questions are answered, we should first establish a common ground, that is, let us settle for what globalization really means. After examining the basics of this concept, we shall have both sides of the issue evaluated. This paper shall evaluate the facts and arguments on the feminist point of view.Thus, most facts that will be presented will focus on women and their immediate concerns. Further, we shall have the evaluation in three basic aspects: cultural, economic and social aspects of life. Globalization has been seen as a process, but also a project; a reality, but also a belief (Mattelart, 2002).
Many believe that with the onset and rise of globalization, global culture will be born and there lies the fear of many. Focused on women’s cry, beliefs that globalization is double-edged. In simple terms, there lies hidden agenda in the globalization trend.For the purpose of this paper, we will take this definition as a common ground: Globalization is a rapidly accelerating integration of many local and national economies into a single global market and include the political and cultural corollaries of the process (A. Jagger, 2001). I have chosen this definition among the many definitions of the word because it encompasses the basic aspects of human life. It has to be clear that there has no definite or precise definition ever given to the word which is primarily the reason why it remained debated upon.
I would have to admit early in this paper that I am a proponent of globalization.As a woman, I understand why major feminist groups are against globalization. I should not however be judged as unsympathetic and weird having an opposing opinion and stand on the issue of globalization. To support my stand, I would have to cite the results of the research done by Lisa B.
Meyer in 2003, entitled “Economic Globalization and Women’s Status in the Labor Market: A Cross-National Investigation of Occupational Sex Segregation and Inequality. ” To discuss briefly, Meyer found out that globalization trends on economic had actually reduced the sex segregation and inequality in the workplace.
