Gender Sensitive Lawmaking in Theory and Practice

Maria Mousmouti (University of London, UK)

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Gender & the law; Social law

This book addresses key questions around gender-sensitive legislation as a key output of gender sensitive Parliaments and explores practical ways to promote gender-sensitive ex-ante scrutiny of legislation, improve implementation through gender responsive budgeting, assess the gender impact of legislation ex post and express laws in gender inclusive ways.

All laws have a gender, and the gender of the law can reveal itself in the language, the content and the results of legislation. Gender-blind laws can discriminate directly or indirectly against individuals or population groups, can produce unwanted effects, can reproduce gender stereotypes, and can render laws and policies ineffective. Gender-sensitive legislation on the other hand, can be expected to achieve its desired legislative objectives without unwanted differential impact on the grounds of gender and other individual characteristics and can simultaneously promote gender equality. This book advances the premise that gender sensitive legislation is not the result of political will or good intentions alone but the outcome of gender-sensitive legislative decision-making throughout the life cycle of legislation. This means that gender concerns need to be an integral part of the processes of legislative design and drafting, ex-ante and ex-post legislative scrutiny and implementation of legislation.

Gender Sensitive Lawmaking in Theory and Practice will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Law, Public Policy, Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Theory and Practice of Legislation.

Edited by: Maria Mousmouti (University of London UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032538075
ISBN 10: 1032538074
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Maria Mousmouti is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London, Executive Director at the Centre for European Constitutional Law, a research center based in Athens, Greece, and Associate Expert at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. She specialises in law-making, legislative quality and effectiveness, legislative design and drafting and gender-sensitive scrutiny of legislation. She is the author of Designing Effective Legislation (2019) and several articles on legislative drafting and gender- sensitive law-making.