This blog's mission is to look at how other countries have implemented women's rights laws. We will look at the both legal and cultural forces in the countries, as well historical views on women and then look at whether or not women's rights have improved in those countries. Hopefully, we will be able to find variables that help lead to the success of the implementation and alternatively be able to point out which variables led to failures. These variables will then help us come up with advice for Haiti's current implementation of women's rights laws.
Submitted in fulfillment of requirements for an independent study in the Duke FHI Haiti Lab in conjunction with the Duke Law School "Violence Against Women" ad hoc seminar
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Reasons for choosing the four countries
Nigeria-Nigeria was an interesting country for a number of reasons. One of these was its heterogeneity as it had different ethnicities, religions, and was broken up into 36 states. This heterogeneity allowed us to see how different variables affected the implementation of women's rights while still eliminating a lot of the omitted variable bias because the states were all still part of the same country.
SIGI Ranking: 86
Cuba- Cuba was interesting because it had a strong central government led by Castro who made increasing gender-equality one of its specific goals. This allowed us to see the effectiveness of women's rights initiatives that started at the top. In addition, being in the Caribbean and a former colony means it has some cultural and historical similarities with Haiti.
SIGI Ranking: 22
Dominican Republic-The Dominican Republic was a good choice because of its proximity to Haiti, as they are the only two countries on the island Hispaniola. In addition, the two have a shared history as Haiti once conquered the Dominican Republic and there is a large Haitian population in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic also has had several recent strong pushes by its government to increase Women's Rights.
SIGI Ranking: 40
Rwanda-Rwanda's recent striking revolution in women's rights amid the chaos of their civil war made Rwanda a great choice. Additionally, Rwanda is a Francophonic country, similar to Haiti. Looking at recent, sweeping, and seminally successful legal, economic, and cultural changes in Rwanda offers a strong hope for Haitian Women's rights after large scale catastrophe.
SIGI Ranking: 66
http://genderindex.org/ranking
SIGI Ranking: 86
Cuba- Cuba was interesting because it had a strong central government led by Castro who made increasing gender-equality one of its specific goals. This allowed us to see the effectiveness of women's rights initiatives that started at the top. In addition, being in the Caribbean and a former colony means it has some cultural and historical similarities with Haiti.
SIGI Ranking: 22
Dominican Republic-The Dominican Republic was a good choice because of its proximity to Haiti, as they are the only two countries on the island Hispaniola. In addition, the two have a shared history as Haiti once conquered the Dominican Republic and there is a large Haitian population in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic also has had several recent strong pushes by its government to increase Women's Rights.
SIGI Ranking: 40
Rwanda-Rwanda's recent striking revolution in women's rights amid the chaos of their civil war made Rwanda a great choice. Additionally, Rwanda is a Francophonic country, similar to Haiti. Looking at recent, sweeping, and seminally successful legal, economic, and cultural changes in Rwanda offers a strong hope for Haitian Women's rights after large scale catastrophe.
SIGI Ranking: 66
http://genderindex.org/ranking
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