Making the Law work for Women

Ramona Vijeyarasa is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the editor of International Women's Rights Law and Gender Equality: Making the law work for women which was launched on July 29th this year. The book is the result of a seminar, Making the Law Work for Women, held in August 2020 which drew together scholars from around the world to look at the impact of the law on women, what has been effective and what more needs to be done to achieve gender equality.

As part of her work at the School of Law at UTS, Ramona has developed the Gender Legislative Index or GLI, a tool to rank and score legislation against global standards for women’s rights. The GLI facilitates a comparison of laws addressing the same issues, legislation across different areas of the law, and allows comparisons across countries.

On Communication Mixdown this week Ramona Vijeyarasa chats with Judith about the book International Women's Rights Law and Gender Equality: Making the law work for women, the Gender Legislative Index she developed at UTS and the potential of the law in the work of progressing women's rights and gender equality.