Women’s Empowerment and Its Limits: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives Toward Sustainable Progress

Foreword
Engendering Sustainability
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Women’s Empowerment and Its Limits: Setting the Scene
1 Introduction
2 Engendering Sustainability: The Purpose and Significance of Our Book
3 The Structure of the Book
4 Background
References
Part I: Know the Limits: The Status of Women Empowerment in the Sustainability Discourse
Chapter 2: Women’s Empowerment: A Historical Introduction
1 Introduction
2 Greek Women
2.1 Spartan Women
2.2 Dorian Women
2.3 Athenian Women
3 Roman Women
3.1 Women’s Empowerment in the Imperial Era
3.2 Roman “Empresses”
3.3 Silent Roman “Empresses”: Four Examples
4 “Patriarchy Depends on Culture, Not on Nature”. The Studies of Johann Jakob Bachofen in the Nineteenth Century
5 From Yesterday to Today: Women’s Empowerment in the Twentieth Century
References
Chapter 3: Achievements and Hurdles Towards Women’s Access to Climate Justice
1 Introduction
2 Access to Justice in International Human Rights Law: A General Overview
2.1 De facto Inequalities in Women’s Access to Justice
3 Climate Justice: From Silencing to Empowering Women
3.1 The Role of Women in Climate Justice
3.2 An Intersectional Approach to Climate Justice
4 Conclusions: Do We Have a Chance to Avoid the Worst?
References
Chapter 4: Minority Women, Human Rights, and Cultures in the Multicultural Discourse
1 Connecting Cultures and Social Groups in Multicultural Societies
2 Minorities, Internal Minorities, and Women
3 Women as a Minority or Women as a Minority Within a Minority?
4 Laws and Courts Before Minority Women
5 European Responses Toward Minority Women: Culture(s) Meet(s) Religion
5.1 … Culture(s) Meet(s) Violence
6 Beyond Europe: Natives and Indigenous Women as Internal Minorities
7 Empowering, Not “Helping” Minority Women
References
Part II: Test the Limits: Where Is Gender Equality in the Sustainable Development Policy Framework?
Chapter 5: Including the Gender Dimension in the “Investment and Sustainable Development” Discourse: Where Do We Stand Now?
1 Introductory Remarks
2 Gender Provisions in International Investment Agreements: What Are the (New) Trends?
3 Assessing the Impact of IIAs on Gender Policies
4 Some Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 6: The Climate Crisis in Fiji: The Grim Realities and Available Opportunities for Gender and Climate Justice
1 The Current Situation
2 The Fiji Government’s Response to Mainstream Gender in the Context of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction?
3 Strengthening Responses to Violence Against Women in Humanitarian Settings
4 Where Is the Data That Matters? The Lack of Sex- and Age-Disaggregated Data
5 Participation of Women in Decision-Making Processes
6 Gender-Sensitive and -Responsive Resource Mobilization
7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: The Ambivalent Parity: The Italian Constitution and Women’s Rights
1 Introduction: The Italian Constitution and Women’s Rights—Where Do We Stand?
2 The Origins of Gender Discrimination
3 Born Equal, But Not Yet a Fully Gender-Equal Democracy
4 The Enforcement of the Italian Constitution Between the Legislator and the Constitutional Court
5 The Emblematic Case of Women in the Judiciary
6 On to Present Times: Women’s Presence in Decision-Making Bodies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
7 Two Recent Matters of Women’s Rights: Gender Equality and Social Conscience
8 Concluding Remarks: The Ambiguities (Numbers That Matter, Numbers That Are Not Enough)
References
Part III: Cross the Limits: Innovation for Engendering Sustainable Development
Chapter 8: Introducing Data Feminism
1 Which Feminism? Whose Feminism?
2 Data Feminism in Action
References
Chapter 9: Gender Equality and Artificial Intelligence: SDG 5 and the Role of the UN in Fighting Stereotypes, Biases, and Gender Discrimination
1 Introduction
2 The SDG 5 Framework in Light of Artificial Intelligence
2.1 SDG 5: Achieve Gender Equality and Empower all Women and Girls
Enhance the Use of Enabling Technology (5.B)
End All Forms of Discrimination Against All Women and Girls Everywhere (5.1)
Unpaid Care, Infrastructure, and Social Protection Policies and the Promotion of Shared Responsibility Within the Household and the Family (5.4)
Policies and Enforceable Legislation for the Promotion of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of All Women and Girls at All Levels (5.C)
SDG 10: Reduce Inequality Within Countries
2.2 Harness the Power of AI for Gender Equality
2.3 The Goals of the UN to Ensure Gender Equality and Its Monitoring
3 The Policy and Institutional Framework at UN Level to Ensure Gender Equality in the Algorithmic Age
3.1 The Legal and Policy Framework for Gender Equality
3.2 Key Actors of the UN System Involved in Gender Equality
3.3 The Way Forward
4 Toward a Forward-Looking, Sustainable, and Antifragile UN Framework for Gender Equality
4.1 AI as a Moving Regulatory Target
4.2 Some Elements of a Sustainable and Robust Framework
4.3 Institutional Cooperation
5 Conclusion and Outlook
References
Chapter 10: The Need for Women in Space
1 “The Magnanimity of the Universe Has No Gender Limitation … Space Is Beyond Gender”
2 Retrospect: Women in Space
3 The Dilemma: Space for Women
4 The Argument: The Need for Women in Space
5 The Realization: What Has Been Done
6 Prospects: Women in Space
7 STEM, Space, and Women Have a Long Way to Go
References
Index