Vol 27 No 1 (2018), Studies
Submitted: 14-08-2017
Accepted: 11-12-2017
Published: 31-07-2018
This paper examines the claims of the rights of women and the historical claim of human rights. It analyzes, on the one hand, how the different generations of rights were constructed; and on the other, the evolution of the struggle of women in the pursuit of equality. This analysis serves to make us aware of how the imaginary of the rights turned its back on feminist and women's demands -they were marginalized- and how women had to reformulate the rule of the game of rights to reach or try to achieve equality between men and women. In this context, the different debates about the idea and the term equality, as a multidimensional concept, and as a mechanism for the effective achievement of equality between men and women, are considered.
Equality, Generations of human rights, History of women’s rights, Effective equality