Sexual division of labour under the neoliberal order

Abstract

This article seeks to bring contributions to the debate on the relationship between the sexual and international division of labour, aiming not only to characterize the impacts of neoliberalism on the sexual division of labour but to show, as feminist researchers have been pointing, that gender is a key organizer of neoliberal globalization. I focus on this discussion the dynamics of the sexual division in paid work and the strategic use of the female labor force in manufactures that integrate the global chains of value (with the emblematic example of the electronics industry), without disregarding, however, the inseparability between paid work and reproductive work.