6. The Lead-Up to International Women’s Year

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-145
Keyword(s):  
International Women's Year

scholarly journals The Status of Arab Women

1970 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Stated Goal ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Women's Year

The stated goal of the International Women's Year, held in Mexico City in 1975 was «The integration of women in the development process as equal partners with men».

Getting to Mexico City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Olcott
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Leader ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
International Women's Year

This chapter examines how the IWY conference, originally planned to take place in Bogota, Colombia, came to be held in Mexico City. It considers both Mexican president Luis Echeverría’s personal ambitions as a global leader as well as the burgeoning feminist movement within Mexico. The Mexican government agreed to host not only the intergovernmental conference but also a parallel NGO tribune, creating the conditions for a transformative aspect of the International Women’s Year. The last-minute relocation to Mexico City also resulted in the New York–based NGO leaders taking charge of the tribune, drawing heavily on their involvement with the 1974 UN Population Conference and the World YWCA.

scholarly journals Human Rights for Women and World Public Order: The Outlawing of Sex-Based Discrimination

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myres S. McDougal ◽  
Harold D. Lasswell ◽  
Lung-chu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Development Effort ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
General Norm ◽  
International Women's Year

As the United Nations commemorates 1975 as “International Women's Year,” in a concerted effort to “promote equality between men and women“ and to “ensure the full integration of women in the total development effort,” the concern of the larger global community for outlawing sex-based discrimination is being articulated with increasing vigor. This concern both builds upon and expresses a more general norm of nondiscrimination which seeks to ban all generic differentiations among people in access to value shaping and sharing for reasons irrelevant to individual capabilities and contribution. The particular norm against sex-based discrimination finds expression in many authoritative communications, at both international and national levels, and is rapidly being defined in a way to condemn all the great historic deprivations imposed upon women as a group.

scholarly journals The Conference of the International Women's Year

1970 ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
International Women's Year

The Delaration of Mexico

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Manley
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Transition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
Global Feminism ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
International Women's Year

The epilogue concludes with an assessment of the gendered politics of the final three years of Balaguer’s rule within the context of both the increasing attention to global feminism and the democratic transition to President Antonio Guzman in 1978. It looks specifically at the event surrounding the International Women’s Year (1975) and the ways the women in the opposition pushed forth a more active and gender-conscious agenda. Although the shifts were subtle, a clear difference in tactics manifested itself across the political spectrum as women advocated a more aggressive and cross-partisan platform of feminist rights. Through these transformations the grounding of modern Dominican feminism is then visibly linked to its early predecessors of the 1920s pre-Trujillo period while also embedded in the fifty years of engagement with authoritarianism and transnational activism.

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