Marina Markhgeim, Stanislav Moskalenko. CONSTITUTIONAL ENTRENCHMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE EQUALITY OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS FOR MEN AND WOMEN: ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN PRACTICES

| Июл 22, 2014 | #6, 2013, Law and modern states

Abstract. The authors have studied equality of men and women as a constitutional principle in 24 countries of the world, including CIS. Not all the states supporting the principle have entrenched it precisely in constitutional acts. The USA, for example, has no corresponding constitutional norm. The authors studied the location of norms on the rights and obligations of men and women in constitutional texts, and came to the conclusion that in some states the principle is set out as a general legal principle, while in others it appears only as a principle for family and conjugal relationships. The authors substantiate their conclusion on the necessity for constitutional guarantees of gender equality in states with a democratic political regime. An important conclusion of the article is a classification of possible ways to entrench the rights of men and women in a constitution: the standard, non-image, fragmentary and lateral methods.

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