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Outsourcing One of the features of development encouraged in neoliberal approaches is outsourcing (link outsourcing wiki). Although outsourcing is about businesses it is directly related to gender because it has greatly affected women. (Link To Source: Seven: Research Associating Gender and Government Privatization: Lessons From International Literature) There are some positive ways people look at the results of outsourcing and some negative ways. The positive side argues how women in countries and areas that may not have been able to work and make their own income now have the opportunity to provide for themselves and their kids. In this argument gender is brought to attention because they claim that unemployment is a threat to women. (Link To Source: Seven: Research Associating Gender and Government Privatization: Lessons From International Literature) The side that claims outsourcing is negative argues that although these women have jobs their conditions may not be safe or ideal. Many women have to move far from their home towns and families to work in these factory jobs. The conditions in the factories are sometimes claimed to be harsh. Impact on the economy: Positive: The positive effects of outsourcing is mostly related to the good things that come to the firms/companies that do the outsourcing. Outsourcing allows these companies to avoid something called employee relations (link to wiki page). This avoidance saves companies money because they have the right to fire whomever they want and hire as many people as they want. Some outsourced factories have a goal of how much production they want and since these jobs are very popular and many people want them they can expect them to do whatever goal they chose. ( Negative: The way outsourcing affects the economy negatively is for individuals in the countries that have companies/firms moving jobs to outside countries.

This article is a very detailed wikipedia page about Gender and Development, The article is written with subtopics. The subtopics include Women in Development, Women and Development and gender and Development. Each section is describing the theories of each topic thoroughly as well as how these theories may have been criticized. I feel as though this part of the article is very relevant to the topic of gender and development because it describes the different subjects that fall into the large umbrella term of Development. One thing I did find irrelevant and distracting was the section labelled “Alternative Approaches”, if I was someone interested in reading about Gender and Development I do not feel that the other approaches to development like “Marxism and Neo-Marxism” would fall relevant to me in my search of learning more about specifically Gender and Development. Although the description of this section states that the person who added it feels that these theories aided in the theories that fall under Gender and Development. If someone was looking extremely deeply into the origins of the theories this section may feel relevant.

I do not feel like any of the information was out of date but I did see that a lot of the info about women in/and development was stated to be in the 1970’s/1980’s but many of the end of the detailed descriptions also included the 2000’s. In the section called “smart economics” there are recent dates from 2010 to 2013 that also include into about the World Bank and its relationship with Gender and Development. In short, although it is understandable to start giving the information from the beginning more recent information need to be added to give a more rounded view of the topic in current events. Gender and development is not a historic topic it is still pretty relevant today, some parts of this article make it seem like history. In general I feel as though the article describes some different forms of feminism and the ideas they might support or be involved in. With that being said, I think some parts of the article lack an intersectional viewpoints, and that is very important to understanding certain theories in the Gender and Development field of study. For example race is a large part development because a lot of countries, people and areas that are seen as underdeveloped are seen that way because they are not Eurocentric. One reason this may be missing is because to write race into an article sometimes almost always creates a bias and for wikipedia people tend to want to stay informative and neutral. For this subject sometimes being too neutra will cause you to miss information. One part under some of these topics that is about criticisms of the different theories provides information about how people disagree with the theories. This would be the perfect area to include intersectional viewpoints because many of these theories can be criticized in missing details about the different type of women and why they experience development in certain ways.

One thing I would add to personally is the section that says Gender, Financial Crisis and Neo-liberal economic policy. One interesting part of this is the subject of financial crisis because there is a big impact of women compared to the impact on men. There is also something to be added to the idea of financial crisis about women and men of color and their experiences in the financial crises. Another part of this section that I would want to add to is when they start to mention new wave feminism. They have just a single sentence that mentions how the second wave feminism affects the ideas on neoliberalism and how it creates “new forms of inequality and exploitation.” I think this whole sentences needs to be expanded on and added to because of how heavy those words on. There is already a section about neoliberalism which involves some information about feminism and capitalism but to add some information about second wave feminism will make the information even more up to date. I also feel that second wave feminism may open a door to added more intersectional ideas. The one distracting and interesting aspects of this article is that there is not much of any real information about people of color which in my eyes is a large part of gender and development. The deeper I look into the more I see that there is a way to keep the article informative but add intersectionality. This wikipedia article has many sections that needed adding to and many other sections that needed to be taken out and made into a completely different wikipedia article. The sources included also seemed to take certain biases and although the writing in the article were not as bias as the sources they came from they clearly still had a way of leaning. From my understanding the writing for wikipedia should be informational but not bias or as neutral as possible. This idea specifically is difficult to be neutral on in some aspects but I see an effort made in the sections that show the counterarguments.

Lastly I went to check some of the links in the bibliography to the wikipedia article, the three links i clicked for the sources did work but two of them felt irrelevant to the actual subject at hand. Although they were relevant to some form of feminism i did not see how they were relevant to what the article was supposed to be informing us on. Much of it did not really make sense how someone used it to add information into any of the sections. When reviewing this article i started off thinking everything was going to be done well but as we discussed in class many feminist ideas are not written about well on the wikipedia page I found many biases or lack of information in some parts and over informing in others. I definitely felt that there could be more that I could add to the article. Development is a very broad subject that connects many things to each other; economics, politics and gender are the three main things that need expanding on.

My Wiki Project topic that I will be adding to is going to be Gender and Development. More specifically I will be adding to the first part of the article under the topic titled "Women in Development". I think this whole Wikipedia article lack a sense of intersectionality and this topic specifically is only addressed in the most surface level ways. I want to add more information about the women in the global economy not just about women in the United States. I want to add much more information regarding development and the idea of the third world and how that affects not only women in the United States but also women in other countries that are viewed as under developed.