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Introduction: elusive equalities – sex, gender and women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2014

Catherine Albertyn ,
Sandra Fredman  and
Judy Fudge
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Despite the fact that the Millennium Development Goals promised to achieve gender equality and maternal health by 2015, equality remains elusive for too many women. Indeed, austerity, the rise of fundamentalism and the continuing gendered division of labour, especially when it comes to socially necessary but unremunerated care work, have contributed to the increase in gendered inequalities in many areas of social life and in most regions of the world. There is a plenitude of international, transnational and national equality instruments and strategies at the same time as gendered inequality is increasing both within and between nations. These equality instruments and strategies have also had an uneven impact: some women benefit more than others. Moreover, if interpreted in a formal manner, equality can be achieved as much through levelling down men's employment opportunities as by elevating women's life chances.

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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 421 - 426
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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