‘Gender Equality’: On Travel Metaphors and Duties to Yield

Securing gender equality is an ongoing democratic challenge. The ‘culture of equals’ is intrinsic to democracy, as Anne Phillips (2004) has written: democracy involves an assertion about the fundamental equality of all human beings and an expectation that this will be reflected in public policies and law. Principles of gender equality are written into international covenants, national constitutions, laws and bureaucratic guidelines. But how gender equality actually translates into law and public policies is highly controversial politics. Gender equality is conceived of in various ways. But all kinds of gender equality politics contain battles over rights, recognition, participation and distribution. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.