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Masculinity, When women are fed this idea that they can have it all, men…

- - - - Post-Soviet women, though, are given the choice to “focus on being wives and mothers and dream of a “real” man who will “protect” and “care” for her and their children. (Ch 5, pg 96). This paints a clear image of what masculinity is supposed to look like in this system.
  - - - “Under neoliberalism, women are still asked to do caring work at home for free, but they are also forced to craft entrepreneurial identities that result in additional labor that may or may not be paid.” (pg 8, intro)
      - In migrant women, American and European men seek partners who they percieve to not be promised the endless choices that they think American or European women now have, as these wives better fit within their understanding of the gender order.
        
        Now, Soviet men might seek “more ‘traditional’ wives who they believe are untainted by western feminism, faithful in the face of rising divorce rates, and find caring for their own family ‘easy’ compared to caring for other peoples’ children as domestic workers.” (pg 113, Ch 5)
- - - - One way for countries to prove that they’ve invested in their women is to demonstrate that they’ve equipped them to make the choice to migrate, enabling them to make money in another country. “The Philippine state ‘invests in women’ to prepare them for export” (pg 104, ch 5) This fundamentally changes the relationship between how men and women are viewed in both the home country and the countries to which they seek work in.
      - “We trace how empowerment became associated with individual economic choices for women rather than collective mobilization and systematic transformation” (Ch3, pg 42)
        
        Women’s empowerment has become a measure of development, and countries have increasingly been judged in the category of how many choices women seem to have in that country in order to determine how developed that country is. More choices for women means better perception, but this has not gone unnoticed by men, who see themselves as being devalued.