GLOBAL CARE CHAIN & GENDER INEQUALITY: THE CASE OF PHILIPPINES, SRI LANKA & BANGLADESH
GLOBAL CARE CHAIN & GENDER INEQUALITY: THE CASE OF PHILIPPINES, SRI LANKA & BANGLADESH

Summary/Abstract: Revisiting the Global Care Chain literature, I reflect on the ways in which care chain presents analternative picture of care work and reproduce and reinforce gender inequalities to promoteneoliberalization. I argue that both the rhetoric meaning and practice of care work inflects thebroadest moral contradiction, ambivalence and hybridity of our social and political world today.Critiques of inequalities in global caring, therefore, need to pay attention to the relativephilosophical canon. The study is qualitative and based on empirical findings basically fromsecondary sources of data. Empirical evidence reveals that despite significant progress in theglobal female labor force through the global care chain, its construction is built on sexiststereotype practices and policies. Findings further demonstrate that this global care chainmisrepresents and devalues care work. The study concludes that although female labor force hasincreased by promoting the global care chain over the decades, the reduction of gender inequalityof the global labor market has not happened simultaneously, rather this relocation of femalecaregivers has reinforced and reproduced gender inequity to many extents.

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