Study on the Relationship between Economic Development and Women's Rights and Interests Protection
Wang Ting1, Dr. Zenetta Rosaline2
1Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Women’s Studies, Bharathiar University,
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (India).
2Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (India).
ABSTRACT:
Taking into consideration of the uniqueness of women's physiological and social roles, women need an external security mechanism to cope with the development difficulties and challenges they face in the process of social transformation and globalization. Women's rights and interest protection law is also a policy design based on this "difference" to a large extent. However, with the development and deepening of the market economy, women's rights and interests have not been promoted, and even to some extent, there is a phenomenon of "poverty" of rights and interests. Taking Zhejiang Province as an example, combined with the policies and regulations of the law on the protection of women's rights and interests, this paper studies the implementation of labor security, maternity insurance, land rights and interests protection of rural women and other benefits of women in Zhejiang Province, and finds that the "weak" position of women in the process of rights and interests protection in the economically developed areas has not been improved. Based on the interpretation of the practice of women's rights and interest protection in developed areas from the perspective of "gender" and "differential politics", this paper holds that coordinated gender development is of great significance for maintaining social justice and building a harmonious society. In the process of achieving coordinated gender development, "difference" is a more important concept than "equality". Women need special social security system to protect their special rights and interests, which reflects our respect for "difference". As a just development, it is to recognize and realize reasonable and appropriate differences, meet and meet the interests of the vast majority of people, and contribute to the improvement of the lives and abilities of the vast majority of people (in principle, all members of society). Therefore, the state and the government should set stronger public policies and implement measures to ensure their right to development to realize women's social values.
KEYWORDS: Economy; women's rights and interests protection; gender; differential politics; public policy; social justice.
1. INTRODUCTION:
In the period of dual transformation of economy and society, it is a hot issue in academic circles to study the relationship between economic development and social equity through the investigation of social security system in one country or one region in recent years; on the other hand, with the international community integrating gender equality into social sustainable development strategy, The study of social security or social welfare from the gender perspective has also become a world trend since the 1990s, especially since the fourth World Conference on women. Based on this, this paper attempts to use the perspective of "gender" to explore the protection of women's rights and interests in the economically developed areas, to investigate the new interactive relationship of "country society market" in the period of social transformation, as well as the current situation and existing problems of women's rights and interests protection in the developed areas under the impact of globalization. From the chapter arrangement of this paper, it mainly answers the following questions: (1) Starting from the particularity of women's physiological and social roles, combined with historical and practical reasons, it discusses the reality of women's rights and interests protection and the necessity of policy-making; (2) Taking a case as an example, this paper studies the relationship between the economic development and the protection of local women's rights and interests, and differentiates the differences between the provisions at the policy level and the actual operation; (3) It interprets the protection policies of women's rights and interests in the economically developed areas from the perspective of gender, and makes a sociological theoretical analysis on the protection of women's rights and interests.
2. MATERIAL AND METHODS:
With the development of economy and society, the survival and development of women will continue to improve, but the economic and social development will not naturally bring about the development of women. Taking developed areas as an example, the investment in women's education, health care and nutrition in economically developed areas is much higher than that in less developed areas. Developed areas also provide opportunities for women's employment and public participation. However, whether the impact of economic development on gender equality is spontaneous, immediate or sufficient? Its impact on the protection and development of men's and women's rights and interests Are the degrees and levels consistent? In the process of market economy development, we pay attention to "economic rationality" and take profit as the goal, but ignore the specific needs of people. In the stage of social transformation of marketization and decentralization, private enterprises, self-employed enterprises and three capital enterprises account for the vast majority of the whole economic structure in developed areas. These non-public enterprises bring great wealth to local development, but they themselves do not We will not solve the problems of social security and social rights and interests. From an objective point of view, the protection of women's rights and interests has lost the protection of a series of external factors such as the unit system and state coercion in the planned economy era, and has accepted the market as much as men.
This article starts with the discussion of the relationship between economic development and social security, and takes the implementation of women's rights and interests in Zhejiang Province as an example to investigate the behavior subjects and influencing factors involved in the practice of women's rights and interests. Finally, it uses the theories of feminism, such as gender, differential politics, and feminist welfare, and references the model of gender and development (GAD) in the theory of women's development In this way, the rights and interests of women in the economically developed areas and the protection of their rights and interests are interpreted from a sociological perspective. For the study of women's rights and interests in developed areas, both qualitative and quantitative research are necessary. Quantitative research can make the problem more clear, concise, and more general in statistical processing. Qualitative research is the glorious tradition of the study of women's rights and interests. The issue of women's rights and interests in developed areas is a dynamic process in a specific region and under a specific background. The combination of qualitative research and literature methods can more profoundly show the relationship between the changes of women's rights and interests and internal and external factors.
With the development of China's economy and society, the practice of women's rights and interest protection interweaves with many subjects, which is a process of multi-agent interests, power, function competition and game in a specific development time and space. The lack of any role analysis will weaken the understanding of the system practice process.
The globalization of the market makes the protection of women's rights and interests face new challenges. An important feature of globalization is the flow of capital and financial investment. In the developed countries in Europe and the United States, manufacturing industry is facing a comprehensive recession. Since the 1960s, the declining manufacturing industry of developed industrialized countries has developed in Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and other emerging industrialized regions and countries. Since the 1970s, with the gradual increase of labor cost, manufacturing capital has flowed from developed countries in Europe and the United States and emerging industrialized regions to developing countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa with abundant labor resources through "outsourcing manufacturing". Establishing export processing zones, providing tax preference, cheap labor and weakening the government's intervention in labor system have become the main ways for these countries to attract foreign investment. According to the statistics of the international labor organization, the number of workers employed in 850 export processing zones in more than 70 countries in the world has exceeded 27 million as early as 1995, of which 70-80% are women. In the primitive accumulation period of capitalism, various means of capital extracting surplus value were re used, that is to say, to increase production capacity by prolonging working time and increasing labor intensity, to reduce labor cost by unpaid overtime, deducting wages and welfare, and flexible employment system.
3. RESULTS:
Hegel believes that only the state can represent the "universal interest". It not only respects the right of citizens to pursue their own interests and welfare and develop their own particularity through market freedom, but also prevents the excessive proliferation of such freedom so as not to oppress the universal interest and right. "The purpose of the state is the universal interest itself, which contains the special interest." Pascale, a famous British feminist scholar, also pointed out that "it is impossible to understand the welfare state without understanding the way the welfare state treats women". The role of the state and the government in the protection of women's rights and interests and the construction of women's welfare is positive and indispensable.
In China, market and development are the most attractive words since the reform. When a single economic indicator such as GNP becomes the main indicator to measure development, and when welfare, quality of life and social progress are simplified into economic growth, development may be transformed into a development doctrine that prefers "economic growth", so as to reduce the diversified human needs and natural ecology, We should establish a false and equal relationship between economic growth and a better life. Only from the economic perspective of technology and productivity, industrial structure upgrading and high-intensity investment, we cannot fully consider various complex social and cultural factors. Because the GDP and other economic indicators cannot measure the output and labor services that are not included in the currency circulation process and are not measured by the currency. Women's contribution to the economy also continues to lack the necessary protection of rights and interests and even suffer from discrimination due to the lack of proper evaluation. Although the progress of gender equality and equity is increasing all over the world, but in economic reform Women are still the most affected in social transformation. Economic development and progress have different impacts on men and women, while women are always in a particularly disadvantaged social position.
4. CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION:
The theory of social justice is also a very old research field. In recent years, more and more scholars put forward a new concept "as the development of justice". As a just development, it is the result of a kind of social choice, a kind of social policy orientation, and also the ideal goal of our research expectation. Social development must be conducive to the realization of social justice, which itself is the purpose, process and result of social development. That is to say, although we do not deny the conceptual distinction between social justice and development, in practice, what we call social justice and development refers to the same social state, the same development process and the same empirical fact. As a just development, it is to recognize and realize reasonable and appropriate differences, conform to and meet the interests of the vast majority of people, and contribute to the improvement of the lives and abilities of the vast majority of people (in principle, all members of society). This is also what we understand as "development as a just"
The process of examining the relationship between economic development and social security is also an interpretation of the relationship between social development and social justice. Economic growth can not automatically bring welfare growth, nor can it bridge the weak position of women in development. However, the formulation of public policies with social security system and women's rights and interest security system as the main content will play a bridge role, so as to provide strong support for the realization of "just development" and the construction of harmonious society.
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Received on 25.02.2020 Modified on 21.03.2020
Accepted on 14.04.2020 ©AandV Publications All right reserved
Res. J. Humanities and Social Sciences. 2020; 11(3):172-174.
DOI: 10.5958/2321-5828.2020.00030.3