1. Claiming Labour Rights: Women’s mobilization for domestic workers’ rights Paola Cagna

2. The Research Context Since 1975, and specifically after Beijing, global awareness around gender equality increasing, alongside progressive policy change and affirmative action. HOWEVER –Progress varies across issue areas –Uneven progress across countries –Filtering of global agendas into the national agendas.

3. Understanding the policy change for women’s rights –What are the factors and conditions that trigger and support policy change? –How do the processes vary across issues within and between countries? –What role do transnational actors and the global agendas play in these processes? FOCUS: Processes of negotiation and contestation that lies behind policy change

4. Different types of gender equality policies (Htun and Weldon 2010) Policy Doctrinal challenge religiuos doctrine or cultural traditions Non-doctrinal do not challenge religious doctrine or cultural traditions Gender-status empower women as a status group Abortion legality Contraception Legality Family Law Gender quotas in politics Violence against women Class-based address class inequalities Abortion Funding Contraception Funding Workplace equality Parental leave Child care funding

5. Policy Types/ Actors/Context Policy change ContextActors Typology of policy/issue

6. The interaction (Nancy Fraser) wider discursive space of social interaction wherein multiple ‘publics’ engage with each other to establish the legitimacy of particular issues –This space is structured by inequality/hierarchy; –Policy change is a contested & fluid process open to renegotiation; –Dependent on particular time/space contexts

7. Claiming Labour Rights for Domestic Workers

8. Visit the project webpage www.unrisd.org/ugep