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May 2015
Women’s Work Counts
Feminist Arguments for Human Rights at Work
The feminist and human rights approaches discussed in this paper
advocate a radical rethinking of work that begins with women’s experience of
work in their lives. The paper calls upon the need for identification of
assumptions and values that are not respectful or sensitive to women’s
experience and needs of work, the examination of gender biases and
inequalities that are present in institutions, structures, and actors that
are critical to the operationalisation and achievement of rights, the
dismantling of the apparatus that supports the gender unequal/discriminatory
operationalisation of the rights including policies, institutions, systems
and structures and practices that propagate these inequality. It brings to
the fore critical issues that need to be addressed by the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) in order for the achievement of
substantive equality and realisation of women’s right to work and their right
to just and favourable conditions of work.
Written by: Radhika Desai
Number of Pages: 38
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