Governance and the reversal of women's rights: The case of abortion in El Salvador

Jocelyn Viterna, Jose Santos Guardado Bautista, Silvia Ivette Juarez Barrios and Alba Evelyn Cortez

No wp-2017-187, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

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?

Keywords: Abortion; Women; Crime; Governance; El Salvador (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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