Trade Policy and Gender Equality

Trade policies create both ‘winners’ and ‘losers’, as some actors stand to benefit and others are left behind. More often than not, it has been women who have borne the negative impacts of international trade policy and it is thus imperative that future trade policy is negotiated and implemented with an eye towards women empowerment. This collection presents an innovative, systematic evaluation of the debate relating to international trade law, policy and gender equality. It analyses the role of WTO as a trade policy setter, current debates and possibilities for gender-inclusive trade agreements and other emerging topics such as e-commerce and gender-responsive standards. With a range of interdisciplinary contributions, contributions from diverse authors and national and regional case studies, this collection offers a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the intersections between trade law and gender, and is vital to ensuring that both men and women ‘win’ from trade policy in the future. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Amrita Bahri is Associate Professor of International Trade Law at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Co-chair Professor for the WTO Chair Program (Mexico). Bahri has published in the areas of international trade law, WTO dispute settlement, regional trade and gender justice. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Economic Law and Journal of Law, Market & Innovation. She has been appointed by the European Commission to chair the Expert Panel Proceedings on Trade and Sustainable Development and she is an Advisory Board Member of the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development at Georgetown University.

Dorotea López is Director and Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile. Prior to joining the university, she served in the Chilean Directorate of International Economic Affairs, the Mexican Economy Secretariat and the Bank of Mexico. Her main research areas are trade policy and trade in services. She holds the Chilean WTO Chair and is part of the Chilean Foreign Policy Forum.

Jan Yves Remy is Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services (SRC) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She is also the WTO Chair holder for the University of the West Indies, has been nominated as a panelist on two WTO disputes and has been included on the list of arbitrators under EU and UK FTA dispute settlement mechanisms. She serves on a number of boards, including as Board Member of Caribbean Women in Trade and the Executive Committee for TradeLab.