The Social And Legal Status Of Women

Author : Winnie Hazon
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X001859344

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The Social and Legal Status of Women by Winnie Hazon Pdf

This book delves into the legal traditions that relegated women to an inferior social and legal status worldwide. Winnie Hazou probes the nature of law, changes in legislation, and the trend of modern law toward a social engineering that effects gender equality. Hazou analyzes changes in major areas of women's lives, such as family, employment, and the acquisition of social power. She presents a global perspective of women's status and discusses international law aimed at eliminating the exploitation and abuse of women. The book highlights five countries, exploring the cultural basis for and social attitudes toward the position of women in each country. Students and scholars of women's studies will find this book a valuable resource. The book concludes that both national and international law are slowly evolving into an effective tool for the elimination of discrimination against women. In spite of residual traditions, and beliefs across all cultures concerning gender roles, there is great institutional support in governments as well as the United Nations to elevate the status of women. This book combines the sociology of women and the sociology of law to give a global perspective on not only the current position of women but the changes that are occurring in their lives.

Author : Natalie Kaufman Hevener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429716881

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International Law And The Status Of Women by Natalie Kaufman Hevener Pdf

Since 1945 more than 20 international legal instruments dealing specifically with women have been modified or consummated, reflecting a growing international consensus on issues concerning women's role in society. This book is the first complete collection and examination of this group of documents. Dr. Hevener analyzes each of the agreements and assesses its likely impact on the legal status of women. Categorizing the documents according to their goals, she demonstrates the broad range of economic, social, and political concerns they cover and evaluates contemporary patterns and future needs they reveal. The book includes a table of ratifications organized by country and region.

Author : Henrietta Muir Edwards
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : EAN:4064066370688

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Legal Status of Canadian Women by Henrietta Muir Edwards Pdf

Unveil the forgotten past and empower your understanding of Canadian history with 'Legal Status of Canadian Women' by Henrietta Muir Edwards. Delve into a treasury of excerpts from both Dominion and Provincial Laws, shedding light on marriage, property rights, divorce, inheritance, suffrage, and more, as they once impacted the lives of Canadian women in 1908. Witness the transformative evolution of societal norms as you navigate through a collection of laws that governed the lives of our ancestors, exploring the intricate tapestry of their struggles and triumphs.

Author : Rama Mehta
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Socio-legal Status of Women in India by Rama Mehta Pdf

Author : Mona Samadi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004446953

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Advancing the Legal Status of Women in Islamic Law by Mona Samadi Pdf

Mona Samadi examines the sources of gender differences within the Islamic tradition, with particular focus on guardianship, and describes the opportunities and challenges for advancing the legal status of women.

Author : World Bank Group
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781464806780

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Women, Business and the Law 2016 by World Bank Group Pdf

In a changing world, how can we be sure that women as well as men entrepreneurs and workers obtain the benefit from these changes? Ensuring that women have the same legal opportunities as men is one part of the picture. By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, Women, Business and the Law shines a light on how women's incentives or capacity to work are affected by the legal environment and provides a basis for improving regulation. The fourth edition in a series, Women, Business and the Law 2016: Getting to Equal examines laws and regulations affecting women's prospects as entrepreneurs and employees in 173 economies, across seven areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit, going to court, and protecting women from violence. The report's quantitative indicators are intended to inform research and policy discussions on how to improve women's economic opportunities and outcomes.

Author : Fay Faraday,Margaret Denike,M. Kate Stephenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 1552211819

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Making Equality Rights Real by Fay Faraday,Margaret Denike,M. Kate Stephenson Pdf

Making Equality Rights Real critically assesses the state of equality jurisprudence from many angles. These 13 essays attempt to advance substantive equality as section 15 of the Charter moves into its second generation. Each of the papers in this collection aims to deepen our understandings of the dynamics of inequality and oppression.

Author : Elizabeth Langland,Walter R. Gove
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226468754

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A Feminist Perspective in the Academy by Elizabeth Langland,Walter R. Gove Pdf

Essays examine the impact of women's studies on scholarship in fields, includ American history, political science, economics, literary criticism, and psychology.

Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780889615229

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Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics by Constance Backhouse Pdf

Drawing on historical records of women’s varying experiences as litigants, accused criminals, or witnesses, this book offers critical insight into women’s legal status in nineteenth-century Canada. In an effort to recover the social and political conditions under which women lobbied, rebelled, and in some cases influenced change, Petticoats and Prejudice weaves together forgotten stories of achievement and defeat in the Canadian legal system. Expanding the concept of “heroism” beyond its traditional limitations, this text gives life to some of Canada’s lost heroines. Euphemia Rabbitt, who resisted an attempted rape, and Clara Brett Martin, who valiantly secured entry into the all-male legal profession, were admired by their contemporaries for their successful pursuits of justice. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed all women should be legally protected against sexual assault, and Nellie Armstrong, a battered wife and mother who sought child custody, were ostracized for their ideas and demands. Well aware of the limitations placed upon women advocating for reform in a patriarchal legal system, Constance Backhouse recreates vivid and textured snapshots of these and other women’s courageous struggles against gender discrimination and oppression. Employing social history to illuminate the reproductive, sexual, racial, and occupational inequalities that continue to shape women’s encounters with the law, Petticoats and Prejudice is an essential entry point into the gendered treatment of feminized bodies in Canadian legal institutions. This book was co-published with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Author : Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521687119

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Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans by Andrew M. Riggsby Pdf

Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.

Author : Judith A. Baer,Leslie Friedman Goldstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015064686770

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The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women by Judith A. Baer,Leslie Friedman Goldstein Pdf

The Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women: Cases in Law and Social Change is designed to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, sophisticated treatment of the legal status of all American women. Authors Baer and Goldstein skillfully blend doctrinal and political developments to document and explain the evolution of women's rights and the law - as well as the dynamics and dissension within the feminist movement. Building on Goldstein's previous editions, this book combines updated material on constitutional law, gender discrimination, and women's rights with new cases and readings on family law, gay rights, and criminal law. This edition takes a more socio-political and institutional approach than other books on women and the law. The authors consider issues such as institutional questions of constitutional interpretation, the scope of judicial power, the balance of federal-state power, the interaction between law and other social and political institutions, and the capacity of law to effect societal change. The inclusion of state and lower federal court decisions greatly strengthens the book's focus on the law's relationship to gendered inequality. equality, advances in reproductive technology law, divorce, child custody, education, same-sex marriage, pornography, and domestic violence. Special features include: a timetable of national women's rights cases and legal changes; readings that present opposing views on issues such as pornography, rape, and the battered woman syndrome; historical coverage; discussion questions following most cases; and a supplemental website.

Author : Edward Deering Mansfield
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781584774693

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The Legal Rights, Liabilities, and Duties of Women by Edward Deering Mansfield Pdf

Mansfield, Edward D. The Legal Rights, Liabilities and Duties ofWomen; With an Introductory History of Their Legal Condition in the Hebrew, Roman and Feudal Civil Systems. Including the Law of Marriage and Divorce, The Social Relations of Husband and Wife, Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, and of Employer and Employed. Salem: Published by John P. Jewett & Co., 1845. 369 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-469-3. ISBN-10: 1-58477-469-X. Cloth. $150.* Published three years before the Seneca Falls Convention, this lay guide for women is probably the first ever published in the United States. It is infused with the spirit of early feminism. As Mansfield [1801-1880] states in the preface: "Rights, and the knowledge of rights are no longer hidden from the masses of men; and why should they be from women?" (6). The book has four parts. The first is a general history of woman's legal status from biblical times to the 1840s. The second is an account of the American woman's civil rights. The third reviews the laws of property common to both genders. The final section reviews the rights, liabilities and duties of women in domestic relations. Mansfield was a Connecticut lawyer who later moved to Cincinnati, where he became professor of constitutional law and history at Cincinnati College.

Author : Kim Brooks,Carissima Mathen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 1552211835

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Women, Law, and Equality by Kim Brooks,Carissima Mathen Pdf

Women, Law, and Equality: A Discussion Guideis designed to stimulate and facilitate discussions around the complicated issues of feminism, equality, and social justice among broad spectrum of readers, with varied perspectives and knowledge. The book consists of six chapters, which first frame the following five topics: Polygamy; Caring for Young Children; Feminism, Law, Cinema; Women and Power; and Women and Migration. Each chapter provides excerpted and compiled texts and discussion questions intended to stimulate discussion. The topics discussed in the guide all throw into relief the legal, social, ethical, and political implications of women's equality issues. The range of topics covered in the guide make it ideal for a survey or introductory-level gender studies, women in the law, or women-focused political science course. It could also be used for a series of book club-style discussions.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781464816536

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Women, Business and the Law 2021 by World Bank Pdf

Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. This year’s report updates all indicators as of October 1, 2020 and builds evidence of the links between legal gender equality and women’s economic inclusion. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law 2021 makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women’s economic empowerment. Prepared during a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, this edition also includes important findings on government responses to COVID-19 and pilot research related to childcare and women’s access to justice.

Author : Ilse A. Leitinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Sex role
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040578473

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Women's Legal Status and Role Choices in Six Latin American Societies by Ilse A. Leitinger Pdf

On the assumption that the laws of a society represent norms which govern the behavior of its members, this study analyzes the relationship between the legal status of women in six Latin American societies (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico) and women's participation in public and domestic roles, as well as changes in this relationship from 1950 to 1970. The Legal Status Score for women which sums 21 legal criteria serves to assess the legal status of women for each decade. Data on female participation in the labor force, education, family maintenance, and procreation document women's participation in the public and domestic domain. Based on these data, the study explores the hypothesis that the Legal Status Score for Women is positively related to women's participation in public roles and negatively to their participation in domestic roles. It examines the relative importance of different components within the Legal Status Score, as well as discrepancies between the cross-cultural and longitudinal analysis. An update to 1980 for Costa Rica suggests that a "revolution of rising expectations" for legal equality is taking place which future analyses of women's legal position will have to take into account.