Countries such as India and China are still in this industrialization phase, and they are considered the early achievers of this winding process (Westphal, 2000, p.2). Working conditions are rather squalid and wages are low, but the chance of advancement and "progress" steadily increases. To many nations, these shining prizes are very alluring. However, these are not the only benefits to this process.
The hegemony of the Western corporate world and the introduction and sometimes intrusion of its values onto other cultures has had many other benefits. Other than those more general provisions of opportunity spurred on by economic and technological expansion, globalization of culture spurs on many other forms of social change. For example in the Middle East and India women have increasingly begun to stand up for more equal rights as human beings and not property (Ilkkaracan, 2002, p.49). Though this shatters tradition and culture it is a promotion of feminism, human rights, and the improvement of the overall condition of women globally. The idea of stoning, beating, and the general harsh treatment of women in the Muslim and Hindi cultures have come under heavy fire because of Western intervention into that culture (p.52). Such social change towards "equality" may be considered Western hegemony or homogenization, but perhaps such cultural values were in need of adjustment for the betterment of citizens within these cultures and the world in general. They have seen that there is a difference between the male supremacy in the Koran and the authoritarian misinterpretations of the modern day and age (p.54). Because of corporate intervention in such areas the media and humans right groups have paid greater attention to such sexual inequalities. As a result of the actions of humanitarian groups oppressed women have seen the light of a better tomorrow. .
Another pressing issue concerning human rights with regards to globalization is the atrocity of sweatshop labor.
