Gender, labor and justice. Why it is important to take an intersectional approach to gender when analyzing issues of labor on a global scale? From my own thoughts, it seems that when we look at gender and labor, it really depends on location. I watch the show, "Ice Road Truckers," and it's mostly men in Alaska or Canada. I've seen maybe two women on the show. There are probably more, but I think you'd have to be pretty strong and used to the cold the handle wide-load and heavy laden trucks over the ocean, and up frosted hills. We can also take a look at education and class, if we delve deeper. The people who take trucking jobs generally really need the money, and you get big money fast for driving where no one else will drive. You have to have extreme mental prowess and will power to keep going, despite the danger. Belay what we see from "Ice Road Truckers," and the examples I picked out, we can see more specific examples from the readings.

From "The Gendered Politics and Violence of Structural Adjustment; A View from Jamaica" by Faye V. Harrison, the subject of class and family is brought up in terms of employment and labor, "then a middle-aged woman responsible for a two-generation household and extended family, worked as a community health aide under the combined aegis of a government health program and a local urban redevelopment agency...A woman with strong civic consciousness and organizing skills, she had worked her way into the leadership of the PNP group... No matter how much work she did, she never seemed to be able to do more than barely make ends meet." (Harrison, 476) The idea of a woman known as "Nurse Brown" who can't make ends meet is saddening. Is it due to location, or due to her gender or her age? "Her sisters abroad had often invited her to visit them, and they had also encouraged her to migrate so that she too, could benefit from better opportunities." (Harrison, 477) Though some of her family has left Jamaica, Mrs. Brown insisted that her home was in Jamaica, and she should stay to prove a prime example that hard work can keep you happy and alive. This is until Jamaica's economy plummets and she has no choice but to visit America and Canada for employment opportunities. In relation to employment, is gender a matter of importance, specifically in Jamaica? "Harsh circumstances forced Mrs. Brown to join the larger wave of female emigrants from the Caribbean who, since the late 1960s, have outnumbered their male counterparts." (Harrison, 477) Though Mrs. Brown is away from Jamaica, she still sends money to take care of her home, and manages to take care of herself, while she works in North America. Why is it so few males work? I'm thinking it might have something to do with the Armed Forces blooming with opportunities.

Specifically in relation to gender and labor, we are focusing on third world countries, or states of immigration, and we shall continue to proceed in this manner, by looking at Winnie Woodhull's, "Global Feminists, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production." Woodhull argues that though the third wave of feminists is helping to encourage women in technological advances, and business, there is a lack of communication between western feminists and women from third world countries, which is a step away from what the second-wave feminists were striving for. This piece speaks about the separation of western civilization from third world cultures, and the difference between generally everything.