Gender, Women & the United Nations (UN)

Auteur

Charlotte Patton is Professor, City University of New York (CUNY), York College, Jamaica, Queens, USA

Carolyn M. Stephenson is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Texte du rabat

Women's institutions in the United Nations and women's movements worldwide have worked together to change the status of women in the world. An overview on the United Nations institutional gender architecture, however, is long overdue. This book focuses on the evolution of the United Nations gender architecture.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. 1945-1960s: Legal Equality and Political Rights 3. 1960s-1974: Focus on Economic and Social Rights 4. 1975-1994: International Women's Year and the UN Decade for Women Conferences, and their aftermath 5. 1995-2005: The Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women and its Aftermath 6. Conclusions: System-wide Coherence? Unfinished and Emerging Issues