Trade-related job loss has a disproportionate impact on women

· According to a 1999 survey, 66 percent of all recipients of nafta-trade adjustment Assistance were women.

· In 2000, women made up 59.1 percent of the initial unemployment claimants in extended mass lay-offs due to import competition and 57.0 percent in extended mass lay-offs due to relocation overseas.

Within the manufacturing sector, women’s employment is concentrated in industries most likely to relocate overseas or shut down as a result of import competition.

· women are employed disproportionately in the apparel, textile, and leather industries, which are the most vulnerable to import competition. Women comprise 57.6 percent of apparel and textile workers, compared to only 32.5 percent of all manufacturing workers and 46.5 percent of the entire labor force.

Due to factors beyond concentration in trade-sensitive industries, women are disproportionately more likely to be laidoff when economic restructuring occurs.

Read More:

• Women in the Global Economy
• Children in the Global Economy
• nafta put mexican women at risk, south florida sun-sentinel, january 22, 2004
• the nafta model: a raw deal for women in the u. S., citizens trade campaign
• the nafta model: a raw deal for women in the developing world, citizens trade
• campaignArticles on how trade policies impact women

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