1. Chapter 14 To what extent does global awareness affect quality of life?

2. Awareness of Issues Benefits of the Internet Drawbacks of the Internet
Global connections
Vast quantities of info and opinion
Anyone can listen
Drawbacks of the Internet
Reinforces ignorance (lack of context/unreliable –wide range of POV and perspectives)
Links to less appealing aspects of human life (terrorism, poverty, human trafficking, environmental degradation)

3. Awareness of Issues Ripple effect – we know more about an issue
Ripple effect – we work longer hours (e-commerce)
Ripple effect – we have to invest more $/Time in tech.
POV – does tech provide a solution to a need or does it create more needs?

4. The Ingenuity Gap
The gap between people’s need for new and innovative solutions to problems-and their ability to supply those solutions
The gap is often clear cut: the developed world can provide solutions, the developing cannot
Why? -Developing countries: Less money is available; weak market forces; internal conflicts that create instability

5. Gender Issues
Gender Gap: Social, economic and political differences that separate men and women
2005 World Economic Forum Study
extent to which women in 58 countries had achieved equality with men in terms of politics, economics and health care

6. Scores: 1- 7: 7 represents full gender equality How did we do?

7. Gender Issues Communication Gap:
Some members of women’s organizations-and those who they are trying to reach, often do not have access to contemporary communication technologies
When members of these groups try to use technologies, they often face some of the following barriers:
Social and cultural expectations
language difficulties
lack of education
money
The result? Women tend to have less access/ability to use these technologies in a way that meets their needs

8. Gender Issues Women in Government
First woman in a national legislature: 1907 ( Finland )
First Canadian woman to sit in the House of Commons: 1921
By 2007, no national legislature included 50% women (even though they make up half of the population )
Rwanda: Has the highest proportion of female parliamentarians
Why is it that if women form half of the population, why do they not hold half of the elected positions in governments?

9. But that was 2007? Where are we at in 2016 Mr. Flynn?
88 Female MPs (that’s 26%) with a new rank of…
50th

10. Gender Issues Women and Employment –
Employment equality still a concern in Canada
1967: Canadian women who worked full time outside the home earned 58.4% as much as men
2003: Canadian women earned 71.2% as much as men
Reason for change:
Lobbying campaigns to reduce the inequity, laws requiring men and women to receive equal pay for equal value

11. Gender Issues Women and Employment –
Women in Canada are still struggling to rise to leadership positions
5.4% of the top earner’s at Canada’s 500 top corporations were women

12. Gender Issues Women and Employment –
Women still do more unpaid work than men
Women in Canada spend 4.3 hours a day doing unpaid work compared to 2.8 hours for men

13. Labour and Employment Issues
Unions and Collective Bargaining
Unions have been under attack since the era of globalization began
WHY?
Nations think their economies have to be lean and strong
Unions contribute to rising manufacturing costs
Unions promote the interests of their members-not the state
AS A RESULT:
Far more outsourcing now than in the twentieth century
union membership has fallen sharply
Despite this, unions continue to exert power and influence at the national level

14. Labour and Employment Issues
International Initiatives
At the international level, most unions fragmented/little power
“super-unions” have been formed (cross borders and include large populations )
The International Trade Union Confederation.
Their goal: to ensure that globalization does not erode worker’s rights-and more
More and more- unions are trying to redefine the society that many workers experience, focusing on human rights and eliminating poverty

15. Labour and Employment Issues
Labour standards
Protests against the World Bank, the IMF and the G7 are often about how globalization threatens labour standards (protect workers and the environment )
Protesters POV: The World Bank has done a lot to protect investors- but little to protect workers
Protestors Goal: Pressure organizations to place labour standards on their agendas

16. Labour and Employment Issues
Labour standards (con’t.)
The battle over labour standards continues:
High labour standards will reduce competitiveness. VS
Without labour standards, the “race to the bottom” increases inequality and suffering.

17. The Knowledge Economy
globalization has created a division between workers who can use knowledge to generate ideas and those who cannot.
knowledge economy needs workers who can come up with innovative ideas and transform them into commercial products and services that consumers want.
many parts of the world, workers have few opportunities to acquire or apply these skills and attitudes.
The GAP is widening…….

18. Global Awareness and Quality of Life
Social Clauses
trade agreements have a components that requires measures to stop extreme forms of labour exploitation.
Effective Governance
exposing corrupt and unfair practices.
Foreign Debt –
questionable funding/corruption
Structural adjustments for funding –reduces quality of life
Debt Clock