ABSTRACT
The impact of globalization on women presents policy analysts with a new set of problems pertaining to equity and education. Vocational education and training (VET) once offered young people and adults (notably males) a set of craft and production skills readily useful for local commerce and regional industry that is becoming increasingly irrelevant today. The changes are evidenced by rapid capitalization in developing countries, First World deindustrialization, reduction in union memberships, decline in regulatory mechanisms for worker health and safety, and an accompanying shift to lower-paying service employment (Gee, Hull, & Lankshear, 1996). Grupta (2001) explained:
Globalization is to the world what marriage used to be for women: inevitable and transformative. And like marriage, globalization and the concurrent spread of new technologies affect women differently than men-particularly in the developing world, (p. 95)
Many would argue that the recent economic transformation is not necessarily good for women.
