Gender equality by design: The case of South Africa's commission on gender equality
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Abstract In this article I critically examine the constitutional and institutional engineering involved in promoting gender equality in South Africa through a careful study of the CGE. I trace its political history from its conception in the minds of gender activists at a particular moment in the transitional process, to the promulgation of its existence through the law, to its inception as an institution and its subsequent establishment and design and finally to its practice. My concern is whether ‘gender equality by design’ and the creation of an institution with a particular constitutional responsibility to promote and monitor gender equality in the state and in civil society, constitutes an appropriate strategy and, potentially, a global model for gender transformation.