New PDF release: Constituting Equality: Gender Equality and Comparative

By Susan H. Williams

ISBN-10: 0521898366

ISBN-13: 9780521898362

ISBN-10: 1107403170

ISBN-13: 9781107403178

Constituting Equality addresses the query, how might you write a structure should you quite cared approximately gender equality? The ebook takes a design-oriented method of the wide diversity of matters that come up in constitutional drafting relating gender equality. every one part of the publication examines a specific set of constitutional concerns or doctrines throughout more than a few various international locations to discover what works, the place, and why. subject matters comprise: governmental constitution (particularly electoral gender quotas); rights provisions; constitutional acceptance of cultural or spiritual practices that discriminate opposed to girls; household incorporation of overseas legislations; and the position of girls within the strategy of structure making. Interdisciplinary in orientation and worldwide in scope, the booklet presents a menu for constitutional designers and others drawn to how the elemental felony order may possibly extra successfully advertise gender equality.

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