Several aspects of globalization have been pointed out at this series of symposia. The first session dealt with new strategies and challenges of globalization. A general remark about feminisms and globalization was that the latter makes the job of the former more complex and difficult to achieve. The impact of the forces of globalization, it was argued, is a major cause of the backlash against feminism. Globalization creates more insecurity especially for women, by pushing many of them into unstable peripheral labor, and intensifying women migration.
Feminists face new problems while trying to solve old ones.
The rise in personal insecurity has contributed to this backlash. For these men, asserting control over women becomes a means to deal with their loss of control in other areas. It was pointed out that the thorniest issue for women, nowadays, is the process of globalization that has negative effects on women. The question for women is how to tame this new reality and make it accountable and useful for them. Globalization is not inevitable.