ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the links between gender inequalities in labor markets and the outcomes of North–South trade in manufacturing. Many semi-industrialized Southern countries are integrating into world markets via their manufacturing sectors, and some have achieved significant GDP growth. However, this is accompanied by occupational sex segregation in both the North and the South in which women tend to be crowded into manufacturing sectors that use low-skilled, low-wage, labor-intensive processes of production. Men tend to specialize in occupations and sectors that use more skilled labor and more advanced technologies. Northern exports of manufactures are more male-intensive than Southern exports.
