Yes, But: How Human Rights Helps End Women’s Subordinate Economic Status

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Research Article| March 01 2020 Yes, But: How Human Rights Helps End Women’s Subordinate Economic Status Susan Deller Ross Susan Deller Ross SUSAN DELLER ROSS is a professor at Georgetown Law, teaches international and comparative law on women’s human rights, and is the director of the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic, which she founded in 1998. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2020) 17 (1): 99–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7962840 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Susan Deller Ross; Yes, But: How Human Rights Helps End Women’s Subordinate Economic Status. Labor 1 March 2020; 17 (1): 99–105. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7962840 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsLabor Search Advanced Search Professor Moyn’s book, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World, makes an impassioned closing argument for the human rights movement to change its central focus to ending—or at least lessening—the great economic inequality between the richest and poorest among the world’s citizens. He urges us to “relearn the older and grander choice between socialism and barbarism” and to make advocacy for socialism the “global project it has rarely been.” Only in this way, he says, will human rights “return to their defensible importance.” His concern for achieving both “sufficiency and equality” is admirable and timely indeed, and working toward sufficiency for all is important both morally and politically, as he concludes.I want to turn, though, to a broader point that he sometimes acknowledges but spends little time exploring in depth. Human rights as applied in practice, by local... Copyright © 2020 Labor and Working-Class History Association2020 You do not currently have access to this content.