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RETHINKING GENDER POLITICS IN A
LIBERAL AGE: INSTITUTIONS,
CONSTITUENCIES & EQUALITY IN A
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Author(s): Shireen
Hassim
Programme Area: Gender
and Development
Project Title: Political
and Social Economy of Care
No. of Pages: 32
While women have gained significant access to state bureaucracies and
legislatures, particularly in developing countries, access and inclusion do not
appear to have delivered the kinds of equality outcomes that many would like to
see. Feminist scholarship remains confounded by the question of how and when
claims for gender equality are facilitated and or constrained by engagement
with the state. Put another way, why has the apparent redistribution of power
not resulted in a redistribution of goods? This is not to suggest that no gains
have been made through the strategies of engagement thus far; political
empowerment and formal equality is not an insignificant achievement by any
means. Rather, it is the catalytic effect of political empowerment that appears
to be missing - that is, the translation of institutional access to political
voice, and from political voice to policy outcomes.
This
paper makes a start at addressing this conundrum by focusing on the following
three key questions:
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