The Impact of #MeToo on Women's Rights in the OSCE Region

2018 ◽  
pp. 543-570
Author(s):  
Ewa Sapiezynska ◽  
Johanna Pruessing
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Impact

The Transnational Women's Rights Movement and the World Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi E. Rademacher
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Small Body ◽  
World System ◽  
World Society ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Social Movement Organizations ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Society Perspective ◽  
The Impact

Promoting the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was a key objective of the transnational women's movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet, few studies examine what factors contribute to ratification. The small body of literature on this topic comes from a world-society perspective, which suggests that CEDAW represented a global shift toward women's rights and that ratification increased as international NGOs proliferated. However, this framing fails to consider whether diffusion varies in a stratified world-system. I combine world-society and world-systems approaches, adding to the literature by examining the impact of women's and human rights transnational social movement organizations on CEDAW ratification at varied world-system positions. The findings illustrate the complex strengths and limitations of a global movement, with such organizations having a negative effect on ratification among core nations, a positive effect in the semiperiphery, and no effect among periphery nations. This suggests that the impact of mobilization was neither a universal application of global scripts nor simply representative of the broad domination of core nations, but a complex and diverse result of civil society actors embedded in a politically stratified world.

The Impact of Forensic Issues on Women's Rights

1988 ◽  
Vol 528 (1 Human Sexual) ◽  
pp. 361-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
LENORE E. A. WALKER
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Impact

Vulnerabilities of Women in Extractive Industries

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Adamson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Oil Gas

Perhaps it should not be surprising that sex crimes, the sex trade and anti-woman violence, have become major and predictable by-products of oil, gas and mining extraction operations. After all, mining and drilling camps attract hundreds, even thousands of mostly male workers, typically housed in makeshift ‘man camps’. It is a global epidemic. This article looks at the market trends among investors who look at social performance as well as financial performance. It includes a case study on the difference in financial performance between the oil, gas and mining companies that uphold Indigenous peoples’ rights and those companies that do not. The results indicate that for the extractive industry and its investors, doing what is right and doing what pays are one and the same when it comes to Indigenous peoples’ rights. This article proposes that it would be the same for women’s rights and that as governments increasingly prove incapable or unwilling to protect women, we need to turn to the market and make our voices heard. What is needed are the metrics and analytical tools for assessing the impact and financial risks a company can incur, when it fails to recognize women’s rights.

Women's Movements and Constitution Making after Civil Unrest and Conflict in Africa: The Cases of Kenya and Somalia

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 78-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aili Mari Tripp
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Quotas ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Conflict In Africa ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Constitutional Changes

As numerous conflicts have come to an end in Africa over the past two decades, women's movements have sought to advance a women's rights agenda through peace accords; through constitutional, legislative, and electoral reforms; as well as through the introduction of gender quotas. This article focuses the impact women's movements have had in shaping constitutions after periods of turmoil, particularly in areas of equality, customary law, antidiscrimination, violence against women, quotas, and citizenship rights. It demonstrates how countries that have come out of major civil conflict and violent upheaval in Africa after the mid-1990s—but especially after 2000—have made more constitutional changes with respect to women's rights than other African countries. The second part of the article provides two examples of how women's movements influenced constitutional changes pertaining to gender equality as well as the difficulties they encountered, particularly with respect to the international community.

scholarly journals Feminization of Agriculture: Do Female Farmers Have Higher Expectations for the Value of Their Farmland?—Empirical Evidence from China

Agriculture ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Zhongcheng Yan ◽  
Feng Wei ◽  
Xin Deng ◽  
Chuan Li ◽  
Qiang He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Female Farmers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Feminization Of Agriculture

An individual’s expectations for the value of farmland are a manifestation of his or her awareness of farmland rights and interests. Differences between male and female farmers in their use of farmland, employment, education, and rights protection may ultimately lead to differences in the evaluation of land value between the two groups. Clarifying such gender differences in the valuation of farmland and the reasons for them is of great significance for the formulation of policies and scientific research in areas such as the protection of rural women’s rights, nonagricultural employment, and land transfer. In the context of the global “feminization of agriculture”, we start with individuals’ psychological expectations for the value of farmland. We use data on farmland from the 2015 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) and estimate an OLS regression model. The moderating effects model identifies the impact of gender differences on such expectations and the underlying mechanism. We find that (1) rural female farmers’ psychological expectations for the value of farmland are much lower than those of males due to their disadvantages in receiving information through policy publicization and their greater willingness to transfer into nonagricultural employment, and (2), according to the heterogeneity analysis, better educated female farmers and those living in areas with greater economic and social development expect farmland to be more valuable. These conclusions show that female farmers are currently less aware of their economic rights in rural China than male farmers, and that education, policy propaganda, and economic and social underdevelopment hinder their awareness of women’s rights. We propose policy suggestions to ensure women’s educational rights, promote the adjustment of the industrial structure and of policy propaganda, and balance regional economic and social development.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF FAMILY LAW IN THE CHOSON KINGDOM

2020 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 118-123
Author(s):  
Nodira Bakhtiyor kizi Nazarkulova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Choson Dynasty ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

All religions have a system of rules governing the family. In Islam, family law is called odat, and women's rights are strictly protected, while in Hinduism, books describing Hindu religions such as the Arthashastra and the Dharmashastra show that there is a system of rules that encourages a woman to obey her husband in any situation. This article focuses on family law in Korea during the Choson Dynasty, examining the impact of Confucianism on family procedures and its main differences from Buddhism, as well as issues related to divorce.

scholarly journals The Women’s Movement and Indonesia’s Transition to Democracy

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Rachel Rinaldo
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Impact

This chapter assesses the impact of the rise of these conservative Islamic countermovements on activism in support of women's rights. After all, women not only played an important role in the push for democracy but were able to see through significant reforms for women during reformasi. But the same conditions that have made it possible for progressive women activists, religious and secular, to make these gains contributed also to the rise of conservative Islamic groups. These groups' values are directly threatened by a vibrant women's movement. This chapter argues that the movement's ideological divisions and its inability to mobilize a mass base—along with the changes brought about by decentralization—have made it difficult for the progressive women's movement to respond to more organized conservative forces.

scholarly journals Women’s rights and minorities’ rights in Canada. The challenges of intersectionality in Supreme Court jurisprudence

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. E-194-E-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Rita Scotti
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
North American ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
British North American ◽  
The Impact

Abstract After a discussion of the impact of the principle of equality, entrenched in the Charters approved in Canada since the 1867 British North American Act, this essay then focuses on the related Supreme Court’s adjudications. A brief analysis of the case-law concerning gender equality is followed by the discussion of cases of Aboriginal and Muslim women with the aim of assessing whether intersectionality represents for these groups of women a source of double discrimination. Brief concluding remarks discuss the challenges deriving from the different options for accommodating the principle of equality with cultural rights.

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