Comparing the effects of socio-economic neoliberal policies on feminist movements of ethnic minorities: The cases of indigenous women in Ecuador and African American women in the United States from 1999 to 2005

Abstract

The following dissertation discusses the problems that ethnic minority women, such as Indigenous women in Ecuador and African American women in the United States, face due to the neoliberal policies implemented in both governments. Neoliberal policies apply universal solutions irrelevant to the issues that ethnic minorities experience every day. Ethnic minority women are more vulnerable to the negative effects of neoliberal policies because they experience simultaneous discrimination related to class, ethnicity, and gender. The chosen theory is the postcolonial feminism with Chandra. T. Mohanty as the main author of reference. The methodology used is qualitative and quantitative with a descriptive approach. The main conclusion is that women were further discriminated since a universal female experience does not exist; thus, related issues cannot be solved with heterogeneous policies.