The literature on Interdependence concerned itself with how states could agree on the norms and rules of a global liberal economy and build and maintain regimes. Even the broadening of international relations to encompass more transnational questions, those distinct from security and not necessarily mediated through the state has done little to rectify the situation. States bargain, negotiate to find common solutions. State goals now include enhancing human welfare, and maintaining legitimacy. Sovereignty includes not just recognition from other states, but internal legitimacy Women are the poorest welfare.
Women are part of civil societies and citizens whose consent is required.
Mass recruitment of women into high technology industries. Changes in agricultural employment, as well as high male out-migration have had great impact on the roles and responsibilities of women. As wage levels deteriorate, women are often compelled to work in the least renumerated areas while publicly financed services on which women and children are particularly dependent deteriorate. Women find themselves in the sex trade. The gender dimensions of international economic policy, be these in regard to employment, sexual division of labor, sex trade, development or migration are receiving much more attention.