Rewriting the Rules: Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Rewriting the Rules considers what it would look like to write women's lives into law. Examining both where the law stands today and the ground left to walk if it is to be truly equitable, Ramona Vijeyarasa takes readers on a global journey of gender-responsive lawmaking across seven legal domains: gender-based violence, parental leave, corporate board representation, small-scale mining, budgeting, modern slavery, and artificial intelligence. A legislative tour of good and bad practice from every continent, this book reconceptualizes lawmaking and demonstrates how rewriting the rules can be a lever for equality.
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Rewriting the Rules: Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Rewriting the Rules considers what it would look like to write women's lives into law. Examining both where the law stands today and the ground left to walk if it is to be truly equitable, Ramona Vijeyarasa takes readers on a global journey of gender-responsive lawmaking across seven legal domains: gender-based violence, parental leave, corporate board representation, small-scale mining, budgeting, modern slavery, and artificial intelligence. A legislative tour of good and bad practice from every continent, this book reconceptualizes lawmaking and demonstrates how rewriting the rules can be a lever for equality.
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Rewriting the Rules: Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century

Rewriting the Rules: Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century

by Ramona Vijeyarasa
Rewriting the Rules: Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century

Rewriting the Rules: Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century

by Ramona Vijeyarasa

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Rewriting the Rules considers what it would look like to write women's lives into law. Examining both where the law stands today and the ground left to walk if it is to be truly equitable, Ramona Vijeyarasa takes readers on a global journey of gender-responsive lawmaking across seven legal domains: gender-based violence, parental leave, corporate board representation, small-scale mining, budgeting, modern slavery, and artificial intelligence. A legislative tour of good and bad practice from every continent, this book reconceptualizes lawmaking and demonstrates how rewriting the rules can be a lever for equality.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520412965
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01/06/2026
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Ramona Vijeyarasa is Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She is author of The Woman President: Leadership, Law and Legacy for Women Based on Experiences from South and Southeast Asia and Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and Its Victims.

Table of Contents

Contents
 
Preface
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction: Why We Need to Rewrite the Rules
1. Gender and the Law: A Framework for Defining Gender-Responsive Legislation
2. Gender-Based Violence: Reclaiming the Global South's Leadership on Workplace Leave for Victims
3. Parental Leave: Detangling Pregnancy and Parenting to Challenge the "Sexed" and "Gendered" Nature of Leave
4. Modern Slavery: Giving Voice and Visibility to the Gendered Experiences of Supply Chain Exploitation
5. Extractives: Regulating at the Margins to Formalize Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining for Women
6. Corporate Quotas: Legal Tools in the Struggle for Boardroom Equality
7. Gender-Responsive Budgeting: Law as the Lever to Embed Gender in Budgetary Frameworks
8. Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Accountability Through an Intersectional Gender Lens
Conclusion: The Practicalities of Rewriting the Rules
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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