Towards Gender Equality In Law

Author : Ramona Vijeyarasa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000401776

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International Women’s Rights Law and Gender Equality by Ramona Vijeyarasa Pdf

The law is a well-known tool in fighting gender inequality, but which laws actually advance women’s rights? This book unpacks the complex nuances behind gender-responsive domestic legislation, from several of the world’s leading experts on gender equality. Drawing on domestic examples and international law, it provides a primer of theory alongside tangible and practical solutions to fulfil the promise of the law to deliver equality between men and women. Part I outlines what progress has been made to date on eradicating gender inequality, and insights into the law’s potential as one lever in the global struggle for equality. Parts II and III go on to explore concrete areas of law, with case studies from multiple jurisdictions that examine how well domestic legislation is working for women. The authors bring their critical lens to areas of law often considered from a gender perspective – gender-based violence, women’s reproductive health, labour and gender equality quotas – while bringing much-needed analysis to issues often ignored in gender debates, such as taxation, environmental justice and good governance. Part IV seeks to move from a theoretical goal of greater accountability to a practical one. It explores both accountability for international women’s rights norms at the domestic level and the potential of feminist approaches to legislation to deliver laws that work for women. Written for students, academics, legislators and policymakers engaged in international women’s rights law, gender equality, government accountability and feminist legal theory, this book has tremendous transformative potential to drive forward legal change towards the eradication of gender inequality.

Author : Gizem Guney,David Davies,Po-Han Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Equality before the law
ISBN : 9783030980726

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Towards Gender Equality in Law by Gizem Guney,David Davies,Po-Han Lee Pdf

This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states' failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes between different levels and forms of law-namely domestic laws, local regulations, or the implementation of international law, individually or in combination. By taking off from the confirmation that the concept of law that is to be used in achieving gender equality is a multidimensional, multi-layered, and to an extent, contradictory phenomenon, this book aims to find out how different layers of laws interact and how they impact gender equality. Further to that, by including different states and jurisdictions into its analysis, this book unravels whether there are any similarities/patterns in how these states define and utilise policies and laws that harm gender equality. In this way, the book contributes to the efforts to devise holistic and universal policies to address various forms of gender inequalities across the world. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in Gender Studies, Sociology, Law, and Criminology.

Author : Debra L. DeLaet,Renée Ann Cramer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429565878

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Gender, Sexuality, and the Law by Debra L. DeLaet,Renée Ann Cramer Pdf

This volume examines the role of law as a tool for advancing women’s rights and gender equity in local, national, and global contexts. Many feminist scholars note a marked failure of law to achieve goals connected to women’s rights and gender equality. Despite its limitations, law provides aspirational norms that can be mobilized to hold institutions accountable and to provide material benefit to those excluded from systems of power. In conversation with each other, the chapters in this volume help to advance understanding of both the limitations and the potential of law as a tool for advancing democratic participation, rights, and justice around issues related to gender and sexuality. Contributors acknowledge, to varying degrees, that law has important symbolism and may be used as a lever to mobilize change. At the same time, some offer cautionary notes about the potential downside risks and unintended consequences of relying upon law in pursuit of women’s rights and gender equity. Collectively, the chapters in this volume explore the disjuncture between the promise and expectation of legal reform and the lived experience of those laws by people intended as the beneficiaries of legal change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Author : Kim Rubenstein,Katharine G. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107138575

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The Public Law of Gender by Kim Rubenstein,Katharine G. Young Pdf

Examines the public law of gender and equality from the perspectives of comparative constitutional law, international law and governance.

Author : Rachel Sieder,John Andrew McNeish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136191572

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Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities by Rachel Sieder,John Andrew McNeish Pdf

Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.

Author : Natalie Renée Persadie
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780761858096

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A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to Achieve Gender Equality by Natalie Renée Persadie Pdf

Law is often perceived as an instrument that can effect social change. While this might be so, it must be complemented by the necessary financial and human resources to make the law effective. Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, such as Trinidad and Tobago, the achievement of legal advances for women--at either the international or national levels--is particularly difficult where practical measures are not subsequently implemented. This is, perhaps, attributable to a lack of political will. Important issues such as gender equality and domestic violence are not given priority and laws aimed at protecting women and promoting women's rights are ineffective, scant, or unenforced. Gender justice can only be realized through a multilevel approach from above and, more importantly, from below, as women have the potential to effect real national and international legal and institutional change to ensure gender equality at both levels.

Author : Ute Gerhard
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Equality
ISBN : 0813529050

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Debating Women's Equality by Ute Gerhard Pdf

Gerhard (sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany) examines equality as a principle and practice of law in history, and legal theory from a feminist perspective. She reviews the history of the women's movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on Germany, and examines three major legal issues: women's rights in the public sphere, women's legal capacities in private law, and women's human rights. This work was first published in German in 1990 (C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung); this American edition, somewhat revised, was translated by Allison Brown and Belinder Cooper and includes a new foreword. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Sandra Fredman,Beth Goldblatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1632140241

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Gender Equality and Human Rights by Sandra Fredman,Beth Goldblatt Pdf

Discussion Paper for Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016.

Author : Lisa Fishbayn Joffe,Sylvia Neil
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781611683271

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Gender, Religion, and Family Law by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe,Sylvia Neil Pdf

Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices

Author : Ivana Krstić,Marco Evola,Maria Isabel Ribes Moreno
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031134593

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Legal Issues of International Law from a Gender Perspective by Ivana Krstić,Marco Evola,Maria Isabel Ribes Moreno Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on international law, which was, for centuries, male-dominant and gender-blind. However, this gender blindness has led to many injustices, the failure to recognize certain rights, and to impunity for serious crimes. The book examines the development of gender perspectives in various branches of international law, while also discussing and explaining certain universal standards. However, particular attention is paid to the European human rights system. Accordingly, the book provides detailed explanations of the EU’s external policies in relation to sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Also, there is a special focus on the relevant jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in relation to gender and sexual orientation, female reproduction, and sexuality. The authors explain not only the importance of an adequate legal framework for combating gender inequality but also the detrimental effects of deeply rooted gender stereotypes and prejudices. Subsequently, the development of particular branches is presented, such as a gender-sensitive approach to the prevention of war crimes, gender perspectives in refugee law, and the evolution of gender-sensitive environmental law. In addition, the problematic situation of discrimination in the workplace is addressed from various perspectives. Many discussions, especially among EU member states, are reserved for the issue of women’s participation in managerial boards, while the growing awareness of gender equality in international trade agreements represents another interesting topic. Lastly, the book offers a historical perspective on the development of international law in the interwar period, with a particular focus on the situation in Yugoslavia. The book critically reconsiders the dominant molds of legal knowledge and presents innovative gender-sensitive and gender-competent insights on a variety of issues in international law, in order to introduce readers to new research topics relevant to gender equality and to stimulate the development of an international legal and institutional framework for achieving greater gender equality in practice. The collection of essays presented here will be of interest to all those working in the field of international law, as well as students and academics looking to broaden and deepen their research on a range of issues in international law from gender perspectives.

Author : Christa Binswanger,Andrea Zimmermann
Publisher : Transitioning to Sustainability
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3038978663

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Transitioning to Gender Equality by Christa Binswanger,Andrea Zimmermann Pdf

Gender Equality, the fifth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5), aims for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls. It thereby addresses all forms of violence, unpaid and unacknowledged care and domestic work, as well as the need for equal opportunities for leadership. Thus, the areas in which changes with regard to gender equality on a global scale are needed are very broad. In this volume, we focus on three main areas of inquiry, 'Sexuality', 'Politics of Difference' and 'Care, Work and Family', and raise the following transversal questions: How can gender be addressed in an intersectional perspective, linking gender to further categories of difference, which are involved in discrimination? In which ways are binary notions of gender taking part in inequality regimes and by which means can these binaries be questioned? How can we measure, control and portray progress with regard to gender equality and how do we, in doing so, define gender? Which multi-, inter- or transdisciplinary perspectives are needed for understanding the diversity of gender, in order to support a transition to 'gender equality'? Transitioning to Gender Equality is part of MDPI's new Open Access book series Transitioning to Sustainability. With this series, MDPI pursues environmentally and socially relevant research which contributes to efforts toward a sustainable world. Transitioning to Sustainability aims to add to the conversation about regional and global sustainable development according to the 17 SDGs. Set to be published in 2020/2021, the book series is intended to reach beyond disciplinary, even academic boundaries.

Author : Irini Papanicolopulu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004375178

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Gender and the Law of the Sea by Irini Papanicolopulu Pdf

Gender and the Law of the Sea successfully establishes the relevance of gender at sea and posits that feminist perspectives can help develop a more inclusive law for the oceans.

Author : Kivutha Kibwana,Lawrence M. Mute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gender equality
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110942336

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Law and the Quest for Gender Equality in Kenya by Kivutha Kibwana,Lawrence M. Mute Pdf

Author : Siwan Anderson,Lori Beaman,Lori A. Beaman,Jean-Philippe Platteau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198829591

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Towards Gender Equity in Development by Siwan Anderson,Lori Beaman,Lori A. Beaman,Jean-Philippe Platteau Pdf

As a result of widespread mistreatment and overt discrimination, women in the developing world often lack autonomy. This book explores key sources of female empowerment and discusses the current challenges and opportunities for the future.

Author : World Bank Group
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781464812538

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Women, Business and the Law 2018 by World Bank Group Pdf

How can governments ensure that women have the same employment and entrepreneurship opportunities as men? One important step is to level the legal playing field so that the rules for operating in the worlds of work and business apply equally regardless of gender. Women, Business and the Law 2018, the fifth edition in a series, examines laws affecting women’s economic inclusion in 189 economies worldwide. It tracks progress that has been made over the past two years while identifying opportunities for reform to ensure economic empowerment for all. The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2017 and explores new areas of research, including financial inclusion.