Women, Development, and the UN: A Sixty-Year Quest for Equality and Justice

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169 Notes Series Editors’ Foreword 1. Thomas G.Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly, UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005). 2. Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss, Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), xi. Introduction 1. Linda Gordon, “What’s New in Women’s History,” in A Reader in Feminist Knowledge, edited by Sneja Gunew (London: Routledge, 1991), 73. 2. Gordon,“What’s New in Women’s History,” 75. 3. Weiss and Carayannis, “Whither United Nations Economic and Social Ideas?” http:// www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/sample/a016326.pdf. 4. Bangasser,“The ILO and the Informal Sector.” 5. Report of the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, 208. 6. Report of the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Held in Copenhagen, 258–259. 7. Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 649. 1. Setting the Stage for Equality, 1945–1965 1. Tickner, Gender in International Relations. 2. UN Division for the Advancement of Women, 1999 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Globalization, Gender and Work, vii. 3. Pietilä, Engendering the Global Agenda, 9. 4. Miller,“‘Geneva—the Key to Equality,’” 231. 5. The 1948 convention is available at http://www.oas.org/CIM/english/Convention% 20Civil%20Rights.htm; the 1952 convention is in The United Nations and the Advancement of Women, 164.See also“The United Nations and the Status of Women,”UN Review, March 1961, col. 8. 6. Ana Figueroa, “Three Stages of the Convention on Political Rights of Women,” United Nations Bulletin 13, no. 1 (1 July 1952), 37. 7.“Women Delegates at the UN Charter Conference,” in Women Go Global. Notes to pages 000–000 170 8. Anderson, Joyous Greetings. 9. For example, the Convention Relating to the Settlement of the Conflict of the Laws concerning Marriage (12 June 1902) and the Convention Relating to the Settlement of the Conflict of Laws and Jurisdictions as Regards to Divorce and Separation and the Convention Relating to the Settlement of Guardianship of Minors (12 June 1902). 10. The Declaration of Philadelphia made the following statements: Labour is not a commodity. Freedom of expression and of association are essential to sustained progress. Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere. All human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity. For more aboutthedeclaration,seehttp://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/download /brochure/pdf/page5.pdf. 11. Miller,“‘Geneva—the Key to Equality.’” 12. The subcommission was appointed on 16 February 1946 by a resolution of ECOSOC. It held its first meeting, which lasted a fortnight, in April 1946 at Hunter College. “Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Resolution Establishing the Commission on Human Rights and the Subcommission on the Status of Women,”E/RES/5(I),16 February 1946,in The United Nations and the Advancement of Women, 109–110. 13. Miller,“‘Geneva—the Key to Equality,’” 239. 14. Ibid., 228, 230–231, 235. 15. Figueroa,“Three Stages of the Convention on Political Rights of Women,” 37. 16.For the historical origins of this debate,see Miller,“‘Geneva—the Key to Equality,’”222, 233, 236, 238. For the debate within the early CSW, see “1945–1962, CSW Focuses on Women’s Rights, Customs and Traditions Harmful to Women,” in Women Go Global. 17. Quoted in Miller,“Geneva—The Key to Equality,” 233. 18. Galey,“Women Find a Place,” 14. 19.“Virginia Gildersleeve,” in Women Go Global. 20. “Statement Made by the Chair of the Subcommission on the Status of Women to ECOSOC Recommending That the Status of the Subcommission be Raised to Full Commission (extract),” in The United Nations and the Advancement of Women, 112. 21. Pietilä and Vickers, Making Women Matter, 115; Pietilä, Engendering the Global Agenda, 14.For more about the genesis of the CSW,see“Status of Women: Great Scope of Commission’s Work,” United Nations Bulletin 1, no. 7 (16 September 1946): 11–13. 22. Mathiason,“The Commission on the Status of Women,” in The Long March to Beijing. 23. Mathiason,“United Nations Office of Women’s Affairs?” in The Long March to Beijing. 24.Begtrup,“Statement Made by the Chair of the Subcommission on the Status of Women to ECOSOC Recommending That the Status of...