Brown Bag discussion on When do Government's Promote Women's Rights? States and Sex Equality in Latin America and the World

UNIFEM, UNDP- Democratic Governance & Gender Unit and iKNOW Politics partners cordially invite you to the Brown Bag discussion on When do Government's Promote Women's Rights? - States and Sex Equality in Latin America and the World.

Presenter: Mala Htun
On: 26 May 2009
At: 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Venue: FF Bldg. 15th Floor Conference Room

Mala Htun is associate professor of political science at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and her work has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Latin American Research Review, and Politics and Gender, among other journals and edited volumes. She is currently writing two books: one analyzes the representation of women and ethnic and racial minorities in Latin America and worldwide and the other explains when and why governments promote women's rights. A former fellow of the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame and the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard, she holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard and a A.B. in international relations from Stanford. In 2006-07, she was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Japan and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo.