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- Title
Why So Slow: A Comparative View of Women's Political Leadership.
- Authors
MONOPOLI, PAULA A.
- Abstract
The article reports on the slow progress of the U.S. compared to other countries in women's access to political office. It states that the U.S. is reluctant to embrace fully international efforts to secure women's rights and the most striking example of this is its failure to become a party to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It notes that the U.S. is not part of the one hundred and eighty-five members of the United Nations (UN) which are part to the convention. Moreover , the U.S. has been claiming to be the forefront of the women's rights movement but failed to ratify CEDAW which its credibility when it criticizes other countries' records on women's rights.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIAL conditions of women; AMERICAN women in politics; CONVENTION on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1980); WOMAN'S Rights Convention; WOMEN'S rights; UNITED Nations &; non-member nations; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood -- Social aspects; RATIFICATION of constitutional amendments
- Publication
Maryland Journal of International Law, 2009, Vol 24, p155
- ISSN
2151-2922
- Publication type
Article