PRAVNA DISTOPIJA I PRIVID RODNE RAVNOPRAVNOSTI U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI
LEGAL DYSTOPIA AND THE APPEARANCE OF GENDER EQUALITY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The Bosnian-Herzegovinian society is characterized by a patriarchal culture in which women have a lower social status than men, less access to resources and less opportunity to participate in decision making. Starting from a critical analysis of rights from feminist discourse, the paper points to a legal framework that only formally prescribes full equality, while in social reality there are still no institutional mechanisms that should ensure equal opportunities for women and men. Gender differences, patriarchal values, law and legal relations largely reveal the gender structure and relationships in a society, as well as the perpetuation of gender relations and the orders of power. The paper highlights a number of obstacles to achieving equality between women and men in the context of Bosnian-Herzegovinian social and legal dystopia.

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