Beyond Add-Women Politics
In addition to summarizing the main findings, the conclusion also sets forth additional key features of women’s inclusion. This includes how the Global South continues to outpace the Global North in pursing policies aimed at women’s inclusion. It also explores the backlash women face as a result of these policies seeking to destabilize male dominance, in which violence is endemic rather than epiphenomenal to women’s inclusion. It also challenges the formal/informal institutional dichotomy, as informal dynamics impact all formal institutions in very gendered ways. It emphasizes the need to focus on men and masculinities, not just women, when promoting gender equality. And it offers some possible policy alternatives that would promote a more critical feminist idea of gender equality, including marriage equality, reproductive justice, transgender rights, marginalized identity rights, and disarmament.