Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

Sandler, Joanne

doi:10.1080/13552074.2020.1753432

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“…Similarly, the proposal of the Misogyny and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act openly addresses the interpretation of women’s equality, departing “from the established practice of having law that is neutral with regard to gender” because “to eradicate misogynistic crimes these laws have to be targeted at protecting women” (Kennedy 2022 , p. 7). Governance structures, too, seek to adapt to remain fit for purpose to advance gender equality, and women’s rights advocates press to “create space for feminist civil society voices, meaningful deliberation, and state-civil society alliance-building” (Sandler and Goetz 2020 , p. 258) in the multilateral system of the UN.…”

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Parity, paradigms, and possibilities: a constructive approach to advancing women’s equality

Razavi

2023

SN Soc Sci

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Prompted by the midpoint assessments of achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5), this article considers the pattern of progress toward women’s equality and how theory and practice can be harnessed to accelerate necessary further advance. It applies Kuhn’s analysis of scientific paradigm shift as an explanatory framework and draws on a cross-section of the literature on women’s equality to illustrate signs of shift in the current paradigm, notably the movement away from numerical parity conceptualization and measurement to the evolution and interrogation of more nuanced notions of equality and its operationalization in various social spheres. It is proposed that this movement is propelled primarily by a method involving four inter-related elements—awareness, belief, communication, and design (a–b–c–d)—each of which is described and illustrated by examples from social science research, development organization data, and the media. Limitations and implications for future research and applied activity are discussed and the constructive orientation to the contribution of diverse responses to an increasingly complex understanding of equality identified as an important takeaway from this analysis. The approach is offered as an accessible interpretive and practical framework for more consciously advancing a paradigm shift in women’s equality coherent with the SDGs.

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Parity, paradigms, and possibilities: a constructive approach to advancing women’s equality

Razavi

2023

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“…According to research conducted in 2018, women and female children became the victims of cyberbullying 27 times more often than men [Sandler, Goetz 2020]. The aggressive behavior against women on the Internet negatively affects women's health, causing damage to women's self-respect.…”

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How Can UN Digital Policy Enable the Rights of Women?

Leenders

2022

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Politol.

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In most academic discourses, United Nations (UN) programs and initiatives to promote digitalization and womens rights are studied as distinct fields. Less attention has been paid to UN efforts to promote gender equality and protect womens rights by promoting digitalization. The article addresses some of the gaps in the contemporary research of the role of modern international intergovernmental organizations in womens rights protection amidst modern technological development. The study reveals the influence of digitalization on ameliorating the position of women in modern societies and formulates the assessment of the gender gap in using the ICT technologies, as well as analyzes how UN specialized divisions act to ensure digital gender equality. The author concludes that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by the UN in 2015 do not pay enough attention to the importance of digitalization for ensuring the rights of women.

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“…However, some of the same characteristics that have facilitated these advances have also been used to obstruct or erode these gains. Its inter-governmental nature, for example, leaves the system vulnerable to national agendas and geopolitics, which can change quickly and undermine existing commitments (59).…”

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CASE STUDY 10: Member State implementation of genderresponsive programmes, including in the health sector, through the strategic use of Gender Programmatic Reviews (UNICEF regional and country offices, Europe and Central Asia)

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Can the United Nations deliver a feminist future?

Cited by 29 publications

References 14 publications

Parity, paradigms, and possibilities: a constructive approach to advancing women’s equality

Parity, paradigms, and possibilities: a constructive approach to advancing women’s equality

How Can UN Digital Policy Enable the Rights of Women?

CASE STUDY 10: Member State implementation of genderresponsive programmes, including in the health sector, through the strategic use of Gender Programmatic Reviews (UNICEF regional and country offices, Europe and Central Asia)

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