PACE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW

The author of this article argues that globalization is driving a gendered "change of world", resulting in complex and ambiguous consequences for women. She discusses how globalization affects women in four major ways: (1) it propels women into the public sphere; (2) it weakens the distinction between the public and private spheres; (3) it increases women's visibility; and (4) it engenders the feminist consciousness. According to the author, the impact is diverse. She describes how globalization has enabled some women to join the formal workforce and enjoy greater access to education.

This article is a feminist interpretation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (the Women's Convention). It sets out to examine the ability of universalism to protect and promote women's human rights and analyzes the ability of liberal equality to accomplish the realization of women's human rights. The author classifies the Women's Convention as being grounded in liberal political theory and on the side of universalism in the wider universalist/relativist debate.