Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-558) and index.

Introduction: Many paths to gender equality / Rebecca J. Cook -- Part I: Understanding gender inequality and equality -- Faces of gender inequality / Sophia Moreau -- Challenging the frontiers of gender equality : women at work / Sandra Fredman -- A prioritarian account of gender equality / Shreya Atrey -- Queer rights talk : the rhetoric of equality rights for LGBTQ+ peoples / Daniel Del Gobbo -- CEDAW [Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women] reservations and contested equality claims / Siobh�an Mullally -- Gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals : discursive practices in uncertain times / Marieme S. Lo -- Part II: Advancing gender equality through human rights treaties -- International treaties -- Fifty years on : the curious case of intersectional discrimination in the ICCPR [International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights], with a postscript / Shreya Atrey -- Like birds of a feather? : ICESCR [International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights] and women's socioeconomic equality / Meghan Campbell -- Gender equality untethered? : CEDAW's contribution to intersectionality / Loveday Hodson -- Regional treaties -- Gender equality in the European Court of Human Rights / St�ephanie Hennette Vauchez -- Gender equality within the framework of the European Social Charter / Karin Lukas and Colm �O Cinn�eide -- Transformative gender equality in the Inter-American System of Human Rights / Ver�onica Undurraga -- African gender equalities / Fareda Banda -- Advancing gender equality through the Arab Charter on Human Rights / Mervat Rishmawi -- Part III: Looking back to move forward -- Breathing life into equality : the Vishaka case / Naina Kapur -- Gender equality in health care : reenvisioning CEDAW General Recommendation 24 / Joanna N. Erdman and Mariana Prandini Assis -- Equality for indigenous women : McIvor v. Canada / Cheryl Suzack -- Gender equality and the scope of religious freedom in S.A.S. v. France / Ilias Trispiotis -- Institutional dimensions of gender equality : the Maria da Penha case / Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado and Mariana Mota Prado -- Restoring Mai Mapingure's equal citizenship / Charles G. Ngwena and Rebecca J. Cook -- Conclusion: Taking stock of gender equality / Francisca Pou Gim�enez.

"The book provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national courts and international human rights treaties. Focusing on gender equality enables comparisons and contrasts among these regimes to better understand how they reinforce gender equality norms. Different regional and international treaties are examined, those in the forefront of advancing gender equality, those that are promising but little known, and those whose focus includes economic, social and cultural rights, to explore why some struggles were successful and others less so. The book illustrates how gender discrimination continues to be normalized and camouflaged, and how it intersects with other axes of subordination, such as indigeneity, religion and poverty, to create new forms of intersectional discrimination"--