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In the article of Htun and Weldon (2010), the opening statements proffer the disparate understanding and application of women’s rights. These skewered rights for women’s rights applies to almost areas from work and employment, access to resources to health and for their families and most of all, the opportunity to improve their lives. Gender centered policies are premised on the societies where these are located; if the country has a powerful female political component traditionally impose quotas on the participation of women in the political arena. In jurisdictions outside of the West, women can be marginalized in their societies.
However, there is an interesting note made by the authors; though women in other jurisdictions wield very little persuasive power, their Western counterparts have very little by way of protection of the law. Marginalized countries in Latin America were better protected in terms of policies for preventing abuse compared to women in more developed countries such as Sweden. This convoluted comprehension of what actually comprises gender equality can be among the reasons that there is this digression in understanding the subject. In this light, it can be given that the factor of political persuasion can be a contributor to the degree that women’s rights in particular and for gender equality in general; however, there is also literature that the philosophy as well as the force of the political party is irrelevant in the understanding of what comprises gender equality. In the end, as is the observation of the authors, that there is still a great deal of research that needs to be done to gain an improved understanding of the subject.
Works Cited
Htun, Mala, Weldon, S. Laurel. “When do governments promote women’s rights? A framework for the comparative analysis of sex equality policy” Perspectives on Policy 8(1), 2010, pp. 207-216
