Women and men in today's world still have different standpoints, different lived experiences in the capitalist relations of Western societies – men mainly produce goods and services to be exchanged as commodities in the market for profit, women’s value is in domesticity, sensuous activity not for profit, and former dominates...

Connections between women and nature lie in gender – social constructions of practices, characteristics and roles based on sex, what unites women and nature, is fact both are exploited and oppressed by male, sexist culture, its institutions, values and practices

The exploitation of the world and its resources is no different. In Wealth of Nations Smith (1991) asserts that the current "for profit" discourages the exportation of raw material and tools of manufacture, in order to protect our profits’ but the opposite is true if the raw material and tools are coming from someone else, be it another country or someone with lesser means to protect themselves.

Developed countries or established brands benefit by selling cheap, capital-intensive consumable products for higher prices. Peripheral countries or "mom and pop" businesses , on the other hand, sold the tools of production to the core at low prices and bought finished products from the core. ( PBS on exploitation )

In summary the poor sell cheap labor and their resources like forests, oils, crops, even pollute their environment to make goods which abuse environment like steel, sugar, etc, to pay off their loans and in addition are forced to buy expensive products made by the rich

This is the basis of all sweat shops which exist in the world. The cheap cloth, the shiny leather shoes, the joyful toys all travel around the globe starting as a raw material in the forests somewhere, worked or processed in a sweat shop somewhere else, where the cheap laborers inhale the fumes, and work under sub human conditions with no hope to escape. The product is then finished somewhere else and the consumer thinks all laws were adhered to, since they the know the country it was made in!!!

The maintenance of this relationship between rich and poor states is largely achieved through the manipulation of the institutions of globalization. Using institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the U.S. and other Western nations press smaller, less economically secure nations to open their markets to free trade while protecting the weaker segments of their own economies (Stiglitz, 2002). This double standard has been demonstrated in the U.S. timber and steel industries and more recently in its sugar industry. Even as it worked to create a free trade zone with Central America, the United States acted aggressively to protect its sugar industry by seeking to exempt it from the agreement.

Arthur L. Dunklin Faculty Member, Kaplan University School of Business Senior Diversity and Equal Opportunity Specialist, Western Washington University

( The reality of IMF loans )