Has neoliberalism impacted men and women differently?

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Question: Has neoliberalism impacted men and women differently?

Even though all citizens in most of countries have equality rights on paper, they need to do more much work to make also these equality rights a reality, for all people: men and women.

In this paper, I will try to analyze how the neoliberalism and also globalization affect citizenship and I will try to find answer for question how do neoliberalism affect women and men differently? My intention is to show how the neoliberal economics of globalization impairs citizens' rights, particularly right of women.

The neoliberalism was the idea of Friedman, a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, from 1976. Importance of this idea is free markets, increased privatization of the public sector, and deregulation of the labor market, and also fiscal responsibility. In this philosophy the role of the state is limited to guaranteeing private property rights and enforcing contracts between individuals (Starke, 2008: 12-14). Neoliberalism economic philosophy was ushered by Ronald Reagan in the USA and by Margaret Thatcher in the UK.

In general, the neoliberal philosophy can be thus broken down in state-market-employee relationships and the retrenchment