Making the law work for women: Standard-setting through a new Gender Legislative Index

Vijeyarasa, R

Making the law work for women: Standard-setting through a new Gender Legislative Index

Vijeyarasa, R

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Alternative Law Journal, 2019, 44 (4), pp. 275 - 280
Issue Date:: 2019-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Vijeyarasa, R https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4581-4924	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-07-16T19:04:00Z
dc.date.issued	2019-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Alternative Law Journal, 2019, 44 (4), pp. 275 - 280	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1037-969X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/134577
dc.description.abstract	© The Author(s) 2019. This article is premised on the fact that every area of law needs a gender perspective. It discusses the prospects for a Gender Legislative Index, a tool to enable us to evaluate and score legislation, by placing laws on a scale from gender-regressive to gender-responsive, when set against global benchmarks from international law – primarily CEDAW. In doing so, this article defines and defends the need for gender-responsive legislation, showing how a common set of standards for global good practice can be developed and the shortcomings, but also advantages, of an online tool to benchmark, score and rank laws.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Alternative Law Journal	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1037969X19861751	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	Making the law work for women: Standard-setting through a new Gender Legislative Index	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	4	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	44	en_US
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utslib.for	1606 Political Science	en_US
utslib.for	2201 Applied Ethics	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
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pubs.issue	4	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
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Abstract:

© The Author(s) 2019. This article is premised on the fact that every area of law needs a gender perspective. It discusses the prospects for a Gender Legislative Index, a tool to enable us to evaluate and score legislation, by placing laws on a scale from gender-regressive to gender-responsive, when set against global benchmarks from international law – primarily CEDAW. In doing so, this article defines and defends the need for gender-responsive legislation, showing how a common set of standards for global good practice can be developed and the shortcomings, but also advantages, of an online tool to benchmark, score and rank laws.

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