Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection

by Beth Goldblatt (Editor), David Nelken (Editor), Lucie Lamarche (Editor), Rosemary Hunter (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509912957
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/23/2017
Series:	Oñati International Series in Law and Society
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Beth Goldblatt is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Lucie Lamarche is Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Law at the University of Quebec in Montreal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements v

List of Contributors ix

1 Introduction: Interpreting and Advancing Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection Beth Goldblatt Lucie Lamarche 1

Part I Gender Transformation: Equality and Participation

2 Engendering Social Welfare Rights Sandra Fredman 19

3 Participatory Inclusion and Women's Rights to Social Security Hester Lessard 41

Part II Gender, Poverty and Rights in Global Perspective

4 Unpacking the ILO's Social Protection Floor Recommendation from a Women's Rights Perspective Lucie Lamarche 65

5 Social Protection in China: Is there a Gender Equality Problem? Mankui Li 89

6 Evaluating Reforms for Bolivian Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection Lorena Ossio Bustillos 111

7 Recent Coverage Developments in Social Security Protection for Chilean Women Pablo Arellano Ortiz 125

Part III Markets, Employment and Welfare: Poor Women in Rich Countries

8 Rethinking Social Protection Beyond Waged Work: A United States Perspective Lucy A Williams 145

9 Human Capital and the Post-Scripting of Women's Poverty Janet E Mosher 167

10 What Would an Engendered Human Rights Approach to Social Security Mean for Sole Parents in Australia? Belinda Smith 191

Part IV Crisis and Austerity: Shaping Women's Rights to Social Security

11 Gendering the Right to Social Security in the Era of Crisis Governance: The Need for Transformative Strategies Dianne Otto 215

12 A Gendered Right to Social Security and Decent Work? The Debate in the Context of Irish Austerity Mary F Murphy Camille Loftus 239

13 Testing Women's Right to Social Security In Australia: A Poor Score Beth Goldblatt 263

14 Mainstreaming Gender in Spanish Labour and Pension Reforms and in European Social Policies Núria Pumar Beltrán 287

Index 315