Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190032 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/187
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
States' governance of gender is not unidirectional. In addition to 'stagnation' and 'progress', there can be an active reversal of rights already granted to women. Using the case of abortion rights in El Salvador, this paper investigates the following questions: What are the likely causes of rights reversals? How might rights reversals be more consequential for women's lives than rights stagnations? And how might studying rights reversals as separate and distinct phenomena improve our scholarly understanding of the relationship between gender and development more broadly? Examining the full range of possible transformations in state governance (reversals, stagnations, and progress), we conclude, results in improved theory and more effective interventions.
Subjects: 
abortion
women
crime
governance
rights
El Salvador
JEL: 
I18
K38
N36
N46
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-413-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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