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Developing the Right to Social Security - A Gender Perspective (Paperback)
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Developing the Right to Social Security - A Gender Perspective (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
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The right to social security, found in international law and in the
constitutions of many nations, contributes to the alleviation of
poverty globally. Social security and its articulation as a human
right have received increased attention in recent years both in
response to austerity cuts to welfare in developed countries and as
a means of lifting millions out of poverty in developing countries.
Women, disproportionately affected by poverty in all parts of the
world, stand to gain from a right to social security that takes
cognisance of gender discrimination and disadvantage. This book
interprets and redefines the right to social security from a gender
perspective. Drawing on feminist theory, the book formulates a
conceptual approach and a set of principles for a substantively
equal, gendered right to social security. In so doing, it
challenges the relationship between the right to social security
and traditional conceptions of work that exclude women's labour
including their caring roles. It argues that the right must have
application at the transnational level if it is to address the
changing nature of women's work due to globalisation. The book
applies the framework and principles it develops to a study of
international law focusing on the work of key United Nations human
rights bodies. It also demonstrates the value of this framework in
its analysis of three countries' social security programmes - South
Africa, Australia and India. In combining feminist thought on the
nature of work and care with equality theories in developing the
right to social security from a gender perspective this book
expands the capacity of the right to advance gender equality and
address gendered poverty.
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