Background Document for the Workshop - ‘Interpreting and Advancing Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection’

Goldblatt, Beth; Lamarche, Lucie

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2198592

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“…Welfare restructuring and cutbacks since the 1980s have been accompanied by a corrosive discourse that casts women recipients of welfare as irresponsible, immoral and lazy, and that sees dependency as deviant (Fineman, 1995). Recent austerity measures since the global financial crisis of 2008, often involving reductions to single-parent payments (Goldblatt and Lamarche, 2014), have also been accompanied by negative discourse.…”

Section: Gender Poverty and Social Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While social assistance is usually the major form of income support where it exists, it is often minimalist in developing countries (UNRISD, 2010, pp. 107–134) and facing attrition in many developed countries (Goldblatt and Lamarche, 2014). In addition, social assistance, without efforts to recognise women's existing contribution through unpaid work, to bring women into work, or to formalise informal work with attendant benefits (Heintz and Lund, 2012), is not enough 8…”

Section: Developing the Right To Social Security From A Gender Perspementioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender, poverty and the development of the right to social security

Goldblatt

2014

International Journal of Law in Context

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The international right to social security has been given limited attention as a vehicle for addressing women's poverty. This paper highlights some of the issues shaping women's poverty globally that require a more responsive right to social security. It discusses the nature and purpose of social security and examines the international law relating to this right, arguing that recent interpretations lack an adequate framework for ensuring women's interests are fully accommodated. The paper challenges the relationship between the right to social security and traditional conceptions of work that exclude women's labour. It also argues that the right must have application at the transnational level if it is to address the changing nature of women's work. Drawing on ideas of substantive equality, it proposes an approach to the development of the right from a gender perspective including a set of principles to be followed in applying the right.

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Section: Gender Poverty and Social Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Developing the Right To Social Security From A Gender Perspementioning

confidence: 99%