The 1976 Constitution included equal rights for women in Portuguese constitutional law for the first time. This article uses the literature and the texts of parliamentary debates to analyse the evolution of the constitutional bases for gender equality over the 40-year life of the Constitution and its seven reviews to date. The break with the previous constitutional experience, especially that of 1933, and the transformative dimension of the Constitution that arose from the 1974 revolution are at ...
Tópico(s): Gender Politics and Representation
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