institutions, constituencies and equality in comparative perspective
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hassim, Shireen
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- gelijke behandeling, politiek, etniciteit, sociale klasse, India, Zuid-Afrika
- Description
- This paper focuses on the following three key questions: • To what extent, and under what conditions, have women in highly unequal societies managed to overcome differences of race, class and geographic location to create effective constituencies for pushing through welfare measures and other gender-sensitive policies that meet the needs of low-income women? • What constellation of political actors (political parties, states, civil society and social/women’s movements) and forces have been most effective in representing and aggregating women’s diverse interests and bringing them into the policy arena? • What are the different constraints across contexts impeding cross-class/race coalitions of women and the translation of their common gender interests into policies? Examined in some detail are India and South Africa. Paper Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand.