Women Constitution-Makers: Examining Comparative Experiences of Women at the Table

Houlihan, Erin C.

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“…There has been a rise in ‘global paradigms linking [political] legitimacy to participation and representation’ (Houlihan, 2020), and it seems clear that these paradigms have influenced discourses on constitutional issues in NI and the ROI. They are evident in discussions around the usefulness of citizens’ assemblies to address citizens’ marginalisation from government decision-making and in calls for the inclusion of a range of social groups, including women to participate in constitutional debates.…”

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“…Therefore, involvement in debates about constitutional change acts 'both internally on the women's movement and externally on constitutional institutions' (Skeet, 2007). In addition, there is 'mounting evidence that women's representation results in more equitable legal frameworks, more inclusive social and economic reforms' (Houlihan, 2020).…”

Section: Gender Inclusion and Constitutional Debate In The Public Spherementioning

confidence: 99%

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Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power

Ashe

2022

Political Studies

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Constitutions reflect national values and set out the foundational principles of governance. Traditionally, those values and principles have been male-defined. As such, constitutions often form the basis of the ‘gendered state’ with all its attendant inequities. Feminist constitutionalism challenges the wider domain of constitution-making to consider questions relating to gender inequality in constitutional debate, design and redesign. Through a case study approach, this article utilises a feminist lens to examine on-going constitutional debates in Northern Ireland that have been deepened by Brexit. Any new constitutional arrangements on the island of Ireland will drive multiple transformations in social, legal and economic life that will impact on the lives of women. Subsequently, this article explores the gender dynamics of current debates to contribute to the broader feminist literature on constitutional transitions in deeply divided societies.

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Section: Gender Inclusion and Constitutional Debate In The Public Spherementioning

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Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power

Ashe

2022

Political Studies

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“…Though all the constitutions enacted between 2000 and 2017, as compared to 58 per cent between 1960 and 1969, contain explicit guarantees of gender/sex equality (Houlihan, 2020), the ‘forms of constitutionalism are everywhere notoriously phallocentric’ (Baxi, 2005, pp. 550–551).…”

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“…‘More recently, women have had some voice in constitutive processes, but nowhere near half of the clout’ (MacKinnon, 2012, p. ix). Between 1990 and 2015, 75 countries across the world engaged in constitutional reforms, only 19 per cent of women made up the membership of the constitution-making bodies (Houlihan, 2020).…”

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Equality for Women: The Constituent Assembly Debates and the Making of Equality Jurisprudence by and for Women

Kumar¹

2022

Social Change

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This article explores how 15 women members in the nearly all-male constitution-making process contributed to crafting of sex equality in India’s Constitution. Women members, opposed to positive discrimination having faith in personal merit and ability to overcome odds, asserted their voice in India’s Constituent Assembly to redress women’s subordination caused by socio-religious androcentric practices, customs and laws. But the outcomes depended upon the religio-masculine complex which never permitted the issue of gender inequalities to take centrestage in the constitution-making process. However, for women members, as is evident from this enquiry, the mere removal of sex as a constraint upon them was of paramount importance as merit, ability and competence could further help them achieve progress and equalisation. Second, what appears is that in the women's imagination, the guarantee of equality being crafted included an eradication of historical gender inequailities.

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Women Constitution-Makers: Examining Comparative Experiences of Women at the Table

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Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power

Gendering Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland: Participation, Processes and Power

Equality for Women: The Constituent Assembly Debates and the Making of Equality Jurisprudence by and for Women

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