Newspapers usually feature discussion of TNCs on the business pages rather than on front pages, thereby minimizing the global power the TNCs possess. This Global Compact contains nine principles regarding human rights, labor standards and environment. Almost 50 TNCs took a public stand in favor of these principles. Effects on Women Gender and the globalization characteristic of TNCs are woven in complex designs. Newspaper accounts relate the increase in girls ages 5-15 who are boosting their nations' economies in the commercial sex market.
Women tend more than men to be unpaid laborers.
For example, in agriculture women are more likely to raise food for feeding their families, while men work as paid laborers raising food for cash crops. TNCs are active participants in cash crops. Human rights violations in the SAPs include unequal access to land, credit, vocational training, education. Another aspect of globalization and the role of TNCs is arms sales. Countries buying arms become even more indebted.