ABSTRACT
In recent decades, questions regarding multilingualism and gender have taken on increasing importance from both scholarly points of view and society at large. Globalization has opened up greater opportunities for people to come into contact, whether face-to-face or via electronic media, and with this has come new linguistic challenges that often intersect gender inequalities. The global economy offers an ever-expanding array of services and products in which women in particular bear the brunt of international labour market disparities. Against this backdrop, scholars from a variety of fields are increasingly situating their inquiries within multilingual and second language contexts as a way to examine the complex and diverse experiences of gendered ideologies. This chapter offers an account of these developments.
