Linking Trade and Gender Towards Sustainable Development

Any change of trade policies or other economic policies is likely to have gender-specific repercussions. Specifically, international trade affects men and women in their different economic roles differently depending on their income, wealth, race, ethnicity, caste, spatial location, age, etc. This creates multiple and intersecting patterns of inequality, compounding the effect. This teaching volume will focus on the gender and trade dimension, including research carried out by UNCTAD, as part of a broader debate on the distributional effects of trade integration. Looking at countries’ socio-economic structure through a gender lens is the general framework applied.