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=== Gender and Outsourcing ===

One of the features of development encouraged in neoliberal approaches is outsourcing. Outsourcing is when companies from the western world moves some of their business to another country. The reasons these companies make the decision to move is often because of cheap labor costs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mullins |first1=Lauren Bock |last2=Saldivar |first2=Karina Moreno |title=Research associating gender and government privatization: Lessons from international literature |journal=Wagadu |date=22 December 2015 |volume=14 |pages=169–187 |id={{GALEGale|A490822009}} {{ProQuest|1786467988}} |ssrn=3194233 |url=http://sites.cortland.edu/wagadu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/02/Special-Issue-Volume-14-7.pdf }}</ref> Although outsourcing is about businesses it is directly related to gender because it has greatly affected women. The reason it is related to gender is that women are mainly the people that are being hired for these cheap labor jobs and why they are being hired.<ref name=Nyeck2015>{{cite journal |last1=Nyeck |first1=S. N. |last2=Benjamin |first2=Orly |title=Women, gender and government outsourcing in comparative perspectives |journal=Wagadu |date=22 December 2015 |volume=14 |pages=1–12 |id={{GALEGale|A490822003}} {{ProQuest|1786468088}} |url=http://sites.cortland.edu/wagadu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/02/Special-Issue-Volume-14-1-1.pdf }}</ref>

One example of a popular place for factories to relocate is to China. In China the main people who work in these factories are women, these women move from their home towns to cities far away for the factory jobs. The reasons these women move is to be able to make a wage to take care of not only themselves but their families as well. Oftentimes these women are expected to get these jobs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Houseman |first1=Susan |title=Outsourcing, offshoring and productivity measurement in United States manufacturing |journal=International Labour Review |date=March 2007 |volume=A146 |issue=1–2 |pages=61–80 |doi=10.1111/j.1564-913X.2007.tb00044.x |hdl=10.1111/j.1564-913X.2007.00005.x |hdl-access=free }}</ref>