The perspectives and position of women in the remotest villages of the Third World have thus come into direct collision with the perspectives and power of men who control global patriarchal institutions. Two major shifts Gender analysis in a period of globalisation therefore needs to make two major shifts. Secondly, gender analysis needs to move from the impact and victimhood paradigm to a structural and transformative paradigm.
Most gender analysis is limited to how the global economy impacts on women.
Gender analysis of globalisation therefore cannot limit itself to impact on women but needs to take into account the patriarchal basis of paradigms, processes, policies and projects of global economic structures. It needs to take into account how women's concerns, priorities and perceptions are excluded, how the economy is defined and how economic problems and solutions are proposed and implemented. Ecology, economics and gender are all thus intimately related to the construction of 'home' as a metaphor. The household was originally the metaphor for the economy. The word 'economy' has its roots in the Greek word 'oikos', which referred originally to the family household and its daily operations and maintenance.