Women's rights to social security and social protection / edited by Beth Goldblatt and Lucie Lamarche.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Interpreting and Advancing Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection (Workshop), Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Goldblatt, Beth, editor.

Lamarche, Lucie, editor.

Conference Name:

Interpreting and Advancing Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection (Workshop) (2013 : Onate, Spain)

Interpreting and Advancing Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection (Workshop)

Series:

Oñati international series in law and society.

On̈ati international series in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social legislation--Congresses.

Social legislation.

Social security--Law and legislation--Congresses.

Social security.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Congresses.

Women.

Women--Social conditions--Congresses.

Women's rights--Congresses.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles such as gender equality, participation and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women's social security rights, the collection analyses recent developments in international law and in a range of national settings. It considers the ILO's Social Protection Floors Recommendation and the work of UN treaty bodies. It explores the different approaches to expansion of social protection in developing countries (China, Chile and Bolivia). It also discusses conditionality in cash transfer programmes, a central debate in social policy and development, through a gender lens. Contributors consider the position of poor women, particularly single mothers, in developed countries (Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland and Spain) facing the damaging consequences of welfare cuts. The collection engages with shifts in global discourse on the role of social policy and the way in which ideas of crisis and austerity have been used to undermine rights with harsh impacts on women

Contents:

Introduction : Interpreting and advancing women's rights to social security and social protection

Beth Goldblatt and Lucie Lamarche

Engendering social welfare rights

Sandra Fredman

Participatory inclusion and women's rights to social security

Hester Lessard

Unpacking the ILO's social protection floor recommendation from a women's rights perspective

Lucie Lamarche

Social protection in China : is there a gender equity problem?

Mankui Li

Evaluating reforms for Bolivian women's rights to social security and social protection

Lorena Ossio Bustillos

Recent coverage developments in social security protection for Chilean women

Pablo Arellano Ortiz

Rethinking social protection beyond waged work : a United States perspective

Lucy A Williams

Human capital and the post-scripting of women's poverty

Janet E Mosher

What would an engendered human rights approach to social security mean for sole parents in Australia?

Belinda Smith

Gendering the right to social security in the era of crisis governance : the need for transformative strategies

Dianne Otto

A gendered right to social security and decent work? : The debate in the context of Irish austerity

Mary P Murphy and Camille Loftus

Testing women's right to social security in Australia : a poor score

Beth Goldblatt

Mainstreaming gender in Spanish labour and pension reforms and in European social policies

Núria Pumar Beltrán.

Notes:

Volume originating from the workshop "Interpreting and Advancing Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection" held on June 6-7, 2013 in Onate, Spain.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849469777

1849469776

9781474202374

1474202373

OCLC:

929015136