Introduction

Nannerl O. Keohane,Frances McCall Rosenbluth

doi:10.1162/daed_e_01770

Abstract

Introduction

Highlights

Rossi’s major thesis, so familiar was rarely voiced: “that we need to reassert the claim to sex equality and to search for the means by which it can be achieved.”[5]
Rossi’s definition of sex equality was “a socially androgynous conception of the roles of men and women, in which they are equal and similar in such spheres as intellectual, artistic, political and occupational interests and participation, complementary only in spheres dictated by physiological differences between the sexes.”
She continues: “An androgynous conception of sex role means that each sex will cultivate some of the characteristics usually associated with the other in traditional sex role definitions

Summary

Introduction

Through a set of interviews with international feminist activists, she documents the evolution of strategies for the steps of the work in 2020 and beyond, reminding us that the United Nations has uniquely important convening power, other kinds of multinational organizations devoted to improving the status of women can bring interested groups together and set significant goals.

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