Developing the Right to Social Security - A Gender Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780815354598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Australia Sydney Beth (University of Technology Goldblatt

Opis

Social security and its articulation as a human right have received increased attention in recent years and it is widely acknowledged that women are disproportionately affected by poverty in all parts of the world. This book identifies the need to develop the right to social security to ensure that it is responsive to gender discrimination and disadvantage. Drawing on feminist theory the book formulates a conceptual approach and a set of principles for a substantively equal, gendered right to social security. The book applies the framework it develops to a study of international law looking at the work of the UN, before analysing three countries South Africa, Australia and India.

Spis treści

1. Introduction - Gender, Poverty, Social Security and Rights  2. A Gender Perspective - Conceptual Approach and Principles  3. The Right to Social Secuirty in International Law - A Gendered Consideration  4. South African Country Study  5.  Australian Country Study  6. Indian Country Study  7. Conclusion  Bibliography

O autorze

Beth Goldblatt is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She is a Visiting Fellow of the Australian Human Rights Centre in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand.