African Customary Law, Customs, And Women's Rights,
Cornell Law School
African Customary Law, Customs, And Women's Rights, Muna Ndulo
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The sources of law in most African countries are customary law, the common law and legislation both colonial and post-independence. In a typical African country, the great majority of the people conduct their personal activities in accordance with and subject to customary law. Customary law has great impact in the area of personal law in regard to matters such as marriage, inheritance and traditional authority, and because it developed in an era dominated by patriarchy some of its norms conflict with human rights norms guaranteeing equality between men and women. While recognizing the role of legislation in reform, it is ...
Women's Leadership And Third-Wave Feminism,
Gettysburg College
Women's Leadership And Third-Wave Feminism, Kathleen P. Iannello
Political Science Faculty Publications
Leadership is a term that women strive to claim as their own. Whether in the halls of Congress, the corporate boardroom, or the privacy of the home, women’s leadership challenges traditional notions of the concept. Throughout the ages images of leadership feature men in uniform and men in positions of power, whether it be military, government, or market. The traditional view of leaders is imbued with male images of “heroes,” who issue orders, lead the troops—save the day. But leadership has another face. It is the face of Abigail Adams admonishing her husband to “Remember the Ladies” in ...
Racism And Patriarchy In The Meaning Of Motherhood,
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Racism And Patriarchy In The Meaning Of Motherhood, Dorothy E. Roberts
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law
No abstract provided.
Estimating Gender Disparities In Federal Criminal Cases,
University of Michigan Law School
Estimating Gender Disparities In Federal Criminal Cases, Sonja Starr
Law & Economics Working Papers
This paper assesses gender disparities in federal criminal cases. It finds large gender gaps favoring women throughout the sentence length distribution (averaging over 60%), conditional on arrest offense, criminal history, and other pre-charge observables. Female arrestees are also significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted. Prior studies have reported much smaller sentence gaps because they have ignored the role of charging, plea-bargaining, and sentencing fact-finding in producing sentences. Most studies control for endogenous severity measures that result from these earlier discretionary processes and use samples that have been winnowed by ...
The Legacy Of Colonialism: Law And Women's Rights In India,
University of Florida Levin College of Law
The Legacy Of Colonialism: Law And Women's Rights In India, Varsha Chitnis, Danaya C. Wright
UF Law Faculty Publications
The relationship between nineteenth century England and colonial India was complex in terms of negotiating the different constituencies that claimed an interest in the economic and moral development of the colonies. After India became subject to the sovereignty of the English Monarchy in 1858, its future became indelibly linked with that of England's, yet India's own unique history and culture meant that many of the reforms the colonialists set out to undertake worked out differently than they anticipated. In particular, the colonial ambition of civilizing the barbaric native Indian male underlay many of the legal reforms attempted in ...
Women In The Legal Profession From The 1920s To The 1970s: What Can We Learn From Their Experience About Law And Social Change?,
Cornell Law School
Women In The Legal Profession From The 1920s To The 1970s: What Can We Learn From Their Experience About Law And Social Change?, Cynthia Grant Bowman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Human Trafficking And Regulating Prostitution,
NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Human Trafficking And Regulating Prostitution, Samuel Lee, Petra Persson
New York University Law and Economics Working Papers
We model a semi-coerced market for sex with voluntary prostitutes and trafficking. Trafficking victims generally constitute a non-zero share of supply in a decriminalized market. We analyze whether prostitution laws can restore the socially optimal outcome that would arise in a decriminalized market free from trafficking. No regulatory regime currently used in practice accomplishes this goal, but a novel policy, which combines the “Dutch” and “Swedish” regimes, would. Our analysis offers guidance for empirical studies on the impact of prostitution laws, and is pertinent to the debate on decriminalization of prostitution.
Street Harassment And The Informal Ghettoization Of Women,
Cornell Law School
Street Harassment And The Informal Ghettoization Of Women, Cynthia Grant Bowman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Women's Employment Rights In China: Creating Harmony For Women In The Workplace,
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Women's Employment Rights In China: Creating Harmony For Women In The Workplace, Jamie Burnett
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This Note explores the global problem of gender-based labor inequality as exemplified in China. China's historic and cultural framework, the efforts the Chinese government has made to coordinate with the global community on women's rights initiatives, and recent legislation passed at both national and local levels in China provide an interesting case study for countries facing gender inequality in the workplace. The items of legislation, though sometimes drafted using international treaties as a framework, contain unique provisions that provide protections for Chinese women that are not seen elsewhere in the world. Additionally, the Chinese government's current political ...
Impact Of The “Nirbhaya” Rape Case: Isolated Phenomenon Or Social Change?,
University of Connecticut - Storrs
Impact Of The “Nirbhaya” Rape Case: Isolated Phenomenon Or Social Change?, Tina P. Lapsia
Honors Scholar Theses
In December 2012, a twenty-three year old college student, who was given the pseudonym “Nirbhaya” (“fearless”), was fatally gang-raped on a private bus in Delhi, India, galvanizing the country to swiftly adopt new legislative measures and catapulting the issue of violence against women in India into the international spotlight. Although assault and rape cases have made India infamous for its high volume of crimes against women, the reaction to this particular incident was much different from before. This paper investigates whether the governmental and societal responses represent social change, as indicated by changing attitudes towards violence against women in India ...
