There is disturbing news coming out of Poland after the right-wing government delayed implementation of a controversial court ruling that would outlaw almost all abortion following mass protests....
Archive: Has democracy failed women?
Has democracy failed women?
A democratic regime is not democracy, yet too often we assume that it is. We then use the existence of inequality in a particular regime to measure the success, not of that regime, but of democracy...
Has democratic theory failed women?
“That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes – the legal subordination of one sex to the other – is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to...
By hook or by crook: Poland’s democratic decline Part 2
In April 2016, when the Episcopal Conference published an open letter to the Polish Parliament (Sejm), urging the MPs to “increase the protection of unborn life,” pro-choice activists launched a...
Breaking the patriarchal code in Australian politics
Browsing a bookshop in North Sydney, I was drawn to a little white book with a provocative title. It was political scientist Drude Dahlerup’s latest title: Has Democracy Failed Women? The book had...