The impact of globalization march on the formation of gender relationship regarding the domestic division of labour in rural Sri Lanka

Abstract

This research investigates the nature of the impact of globalization march upon the formation of gender relationships regarding the domestic division of labour in rural Sri Lanka. The research venture was a basic research based on the socio ethnographical methodology belonging to several methods of post positivism. In this research, the family units of two chosen villages in accordance with the standardized mode focused by the globalization process gender relationships activated in the household division of labour will be examined. The progress achieved by Sri Lanka on account of gender equality, as shown by the global indicators, enjoys a higher position than the rest of South Asian countries. Nevertheless, these advancements depicted by global indicators pose the question as to why this phenomenon of male centred domination perpetuates regarding gender relationship in rural Sri Lanka. Accordingly, this research effort was based on the data collected through several techniques belonging to post positivist method. This was conducted in Rejjipura and Badungoda villages in Galle, Sri Lanka with the valid sample of 200. The primary data were analysed by using descriptive and statistical methods. Accordingly, the glocalization concept has been formulated with the interactions between globality and locality spheres. This concept is though employed to explain the globalization march on behalf of a community which is labelled rural people of a non-western country, to identify the contemporary patterns of gender relationships. On one hand, the rural family structure has been rapidly impacted by the globalization march. However, the entire ideology of globalization is not practiced in these villagers. It has been explained that a gender relationship was established with a seal of global- local nature through hybridization of both ideologies. This could be taken as a micro level novel model applicable for the study of contemporary rural communities.