This paper investigates whether the stylized fact relating globalization with the “feminization” of labor still holds, or if the de-feminization of manufacturing employment in developing countries has set in.

Using factor content analysis, this paper provides estimates of the effects of manufacturing trade expansion on men and women's employment in Germany and Japan, with breakdowns by world, OECD, and non-OECD trade. Evidence is found that foreign trade expansion had a more negative effect on...