Globalization And Women’s Rights: A Legal Perspective
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Ankit Kumar Yadav, LL.M., CUSB (2025-2026)1
ABSTRACT
This paper deals with complicated relations between globalization and women rights from a legal point of view, focuses on how international law has both enabled advancement and reduces the inequality. It detects the historical evolution and development of women’s rights within international human rights law, from their minimal acknowledgement and recognition in early universal frameworks to their recognition by instruments such as CEDAW and regional conventions. This paper critically analyses globalization as a double-edged sword: while it has expanded feminist networks, digital activism, and women’s involvement in global markets on the other side it has also boosted economic misuse, unorganized sector, and structural gender discrimination, particularly in developing and third world’s countries. By engaging with feminist legal theory and Third World feminist critiques, this paper reveal the limitations of state-centric international law and neoliberal globalization in addressing women’s real life. It also signifies the role of the landmark international and domestic judicial decisions in translating normative commitments into enforceable rights. The study concludes that genuine gender justice requires an intersectional, context- sensitive, and the globally inclusive legal approach beyond formal equality.
Keywords: Globalization; Women’s Rights; International Human Rights Law; Gender Equality; Feminist Legal Theory; Third World Feminism; Intersectionality; CEDAW; Neoliberalism; Gender-Based Violence; Transnational Feminism; Judicial Activism; Global South; Cultural Relativism; Substantive Equality.
