Men also control corporate power. The world's religions not only exclude women from positions of authority but actively promote misogynist agendas, attempting to promote control over women's bodies through anti-abortion campaigns, the exclusion of women from public life, the subordination of women as men's possession through marriage and providing ideological justifications for men's use of violence in attempting to control women. Women are also controlled by men through rape and other violence. In Canada, an average of 100 women each year are murdered by their male partners or ex-partners. In Canada a woman is raped every 17 minutes.
Murder is the number one cause of workplace deaths for women.
It is within this context that women are exploited in global capitalism. Two forms that this exploitation takes are in the global sex trade industry and in sweatshops located around the world. The articles below provide information on these forms of exploitation and links to struggles against patriarchy. Not surprisingly, the fastest growing areas of the global sex-trade are in parts of the world experiencing extreme poverty. But white men do not have to travel to South East Asia or Latin America to exploit third world women.