Rikki Holtmaat (2012) comments that Article 5 not only address “exotic” and “oppressive” cultures, “but all human relations and institutions or structures in which gender stereotypes and fixed parental gender role are used in a way that is detrimental t let full realisation of women’s human rights.”
Article 5 lays the foundation for an approach to go beyond the distinction between formal and substantive equality and concentrate on transformative equality (Hunter, 2008). This is a big progress in directing human rights actors and practitioners not just squarely prevent various forms of discrimination against women, but make states take responsibility for fighting …show more content…
This threefold approach shows the determination of the Convention to transform the existing impartial and discriminatory flaws in the structures of law and culture. It is a kind of driving force of legal change. The initial purpose should be the guarantee of women’s equality in everywhere before law, in the public and the private spheres. Then we can expect the prevention of discrimination against and violation of women in the status quo. All various forms of abuses and discrimination gains women are rooted in gender-based stereotypes that breed inequality in women’s de facto situations. The Convention sets up the gender-specific model typical of drawing social supports to solve barriers to …show more content…
What are the behaviour patterns of gender stereotyping that states for fulfilling the obligation choose to modify? Noreen Burrows (1985: 428) on the grounds of this ambiguous formulation, he proposed that at least each State Party should decide the extent of gender-based stereotyping for itself. Besides, we don 't need to exaggerate the importance and uniqueness of any document. The request for settle down and precisely fix the meaning of human rights does not only appear in the CEDAW. This request is just kept it “invariably vague and ambiguous” (Burrows, 1985: 428) from the first document that contains it to this one. Obligations attached by this Convention to State Parties and the measure they are required to take is the core notion in the CEDAW, but there is still no exact clear enough guidance for