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Rewriting the Rules considers what it would look like to write women's lives into law. Examining both where the law stands today and the ground left to walk if it is to be truly equitable, Ramona Vijeyarasa takes readers on a global journey of gender-responsive lawmaking across seven legal domains: gender-based violence, parental leave, corporate board representation, small-scale mining, budgeting, modern slavery, and artificial intelligence. A legislative tour of good and bad practice from every continent, this book reconceptualizes lawmaking and demonstrates how rewriting the rules can be a lever for equality.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why We Need to Rewrite the Rules
1. Gender and the Law: A Framework for Defining Gender-Responsive
Legislation
2. Gender-Based Violence: Reclaiming the Global South's Leadership on
Workplace Leave for Victims
3. Parental Leave: Detangling Pregnancy and Parenting to Challenge the
"Sexed" and "Gendered" Nature of Leave
4. Modern Slavery: Giving Voice and Visibility to the Gendered Experiences
of Supply Chain Exploitation
5. Extractives: Regulating at the Margins to Formalize Artisanal and
Small-Scale Mining for Women
6. Corporate Quotas: Legal Tools in the Struggle for Boardroom Equality
7. Gender-Responsive Budgeting: Law as the Lever to Embed Gender in
Budgetary Frameworks
8. Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Accountability Through an
Intersectional Gender Lens
Conclusion: The Practicalities of Rewriting the Rules
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Ramona Vijeyarasa is Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She is author of The Woman President: Leadership, Law and Legacy for Women Based on Experiences from South and Southeast Asia and Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and Its Victims.
