Chapter 7. Economic Empowerment and Employment Discrimination: Europe and the United States Compared

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Summary of Contents vii
3. Table of Contents xi
4. Preface xxix
5. Using This Book xxxiii
6. Acknowledgments xxxv
7. Chapter 1. Women's Status and CEDAW 1
8. Chapter 2. Equality Doctrines and Gender Discrimination: The Evolving Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee and the U.S. Supreme Court 54
9. Chapter 3. The Interrelationship of the ICCPR and the ICESCR; and the Human Rights Committee's Evolving Equal Protection Doctrine 91
10. Chapter 4. Conflicting Human Rights Under lntemational Law: Freedom of Religion Versus Women's Equality Rights 115
11. Chapter 5. Enforcing Women's Intemational Human Rights Under Regional Treaties: The American Convention on Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights 153
12. Chapter 6. Enforcing Women's Intemational Human Rights Under Regional Treaties: The [European] Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 198
13. Chapter 7. Economic Empowerment and Employment Discrimination: Europe and the United States Compared 244
14. Chapter 8. The Special Treatment Versus Equal Treatment Debate 285
15. Chapter 9. CEDAW in Practice 326
16. Chapter 10. Enforcing Women's International Rights at Home: International Law in Domestic Courts 369
17. Chapter 11. Strategies to Combat Domestic Violence 409
18. Chapter 12. Strategies for Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Footbinding: Western Imperialism or Women's Human Rights? 461
19. Chapter 13. Gender and Polygyny-Religion, Culture, and Equality in Marriage 512
20. Chapter 14. Women's Reproductive Rights 571
21. Table of Cases 639
22. Glossary 641
23. Acronyms and Short Forms 643
24. Credits and Permissions 645
25. Index 649