claiming labour rights: women’s mobilization for domestic workers’ rights paola cagna
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Claiming Labour Rights:
Women’s mobilization for domestic workers’ rights
Paola Cagna
The Research ContextSince 1975, and specifically after Beijing, global awareness around gender equality increasing, alongside progressive policy change and affirmative action.
HOWEVER
– Progress varies across issue areas
– Uneven progress across countries
– Filtering of global agendas into the national agendas.
Understanding the policy change for women’s rights –What are the factors and conditions that trigger and support policy change?
–How do the processes vary across issues within and between countries?
–What role do transnational actors and the global agendas play in these processes?
FOCUS: Processes of negotiation and
contestation that lies behind policy change
Different types of gender equality policies (Htun and Weldon 2010)
PolicyDoctrinal
challenge religiuos doctrine or cultural
traditions
Non-doctrinaldo not challenge
religious doctrine or cultural traditions
Gender-statusempower women as
a status group
Abortion legalityContraception Legality
Family Law
Gender quotas in politicsViolence against women
Class-basedaddress class inequalities
Abortion FundingContraception Funding
Workplace equalityParental leave
Child care funding
Policy Types/ Actors/Context
Policy change
Context
Actors
Typology of policy/issue
The interaction (Nancy Fraser)wider discursive space of social interaction wherein multiple ‘publics’ engage with each
other to establish the legitimacy of particular issues
–This space is structured by inequality/hierarchy;–Policy change is a contested & fluid process open to
renegotiation;–Dependent on particular time/space contexts
Claiming Labour Rights for
Domestic Workers
