UK Reform of Gender Recognition and the Commission for Equality and Human Rights
The UK Government’s consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004 proposes making it easier for trans people to change legal sex or gender. Commentary supporting reform has relied upon...
Indian Supreme Court Decriminalises Adultery: A Step Closer to Criminalising Marital Rape
In the landmark decision in Joseph Shine v Union of India on 27 September 2018, the Indian Supreme Court unanimously struck down a 150-year old penal provision criminalising adultery as...
Indian Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Women’s Entry into Religious Temple
Recently, a (4:1) majority of a five-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court in Indian Lawyers Association v. State of Kerala upheld the right of women to worship in the...
Tackling India’s Devadasi System – A Matter of Policing and Public Order?
In September 2017, India’s National Human Rights Commission issued notices to the states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu about the dedication of young girls to the Devadasi system. However,...
Gender Recognition Reform – The Current Debate is Misconceived
The Gender Recognition Act 2004 (‘GRA’) allows transgender people in England and Wales to be legally recognised in their new gender. The government has acknowledged that the current process is...
A Better Future for Women at Work’ (2018) U of OxHRH J 1
Law still retains a vital role in modifying cultural norms and oppressive structures that underpin women’s role in the labor market....
Early Childhood Education and Care for Informal Workers: An Emancipatory Framework for Better Working Futures’ (2018) U of OxHRH J 16
The practice of taking children to the workplace poses enormous challenges to women’s productivity and child welfare....
The State Made Informalisation of Women Workers: A Case Study into Care Workers in South Korea’ (2018) U of OxHRH J 46
When women are seen first as caregivers and only second as breadwinners, care jobs can then be more easily devalued.
Intersectional Approach to Addressing Gender and Other Forms of Discrimination in Labour in the Commonwealth Caribbean’ (2018) U of OxHRH J 86
Intersectionality must be conceptualized within the lens of relationships of power.
Institutional Interactions in Gender Pay Equity: A Call for Inclusive, Equal and Transparent Labour Markets’ (2018) U of OxHRH J 115
Gender pay equity is not only about eradicating the male breadwinner regime’s legacy....
Conceptualising Violence Through a Gender Lens: Regulation and Strategies for Prevention and Redress’ (2018) U of OxHRH J 142
Addressing occupational violence must not be done at the expense of making invisible the gender discriminatory dimensions of workplace violence.
An Employment Right Standard Provision for Working Women Experiencing Domestic Violence’ (2018) U of OxHRH 167
Paid leave provides employees with time to do what is critically necessary in instances of domestic violence, such as going to court and obtaining a protection order.
