Gender Equality as a General Interest of a Pluralistic Society

An Analysis of Constitutional Precedent in Colombia

Bibliographic Data

ID3817855
AuthorsFelipe Jaramillo Ruiz (0000-0003-3766-3484, Universidad Sergio Arboleda Bogotá Colombia), Ana Catalina Erazo (Sergio Arboleda University)
Year2016
Volume35
Issue2
Pages178-190
Publication date2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/blar.12370
OpenAlexW2138762707
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

The article explores the relationship between the legal principles of general interest and gender equality, both consecrated in Colombia's 1991 Constitution. Through an analysis of the precedents set by the Constitutional Court, the article provides a hermeneutical approximation of the behaviour of jurisprudence concerning the general interest. It demonstrates how this principle could be used to foster a more encompassing definition of gender equality. The precedents set by the Constitutional Court have opened up the spectrum of women's rights so as to grasp their relation to the principle of general interest as well as their basis as fundamental rights

Epistemology · Gender equality · General interest · GRASP · Jurisprudence · Law and economics · Political science · Relation (database · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Violence, Rights in Latin America · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Philosophy