Women and contemporary constitution-making : challenges and strategies of participation

First published online: 21 March 2020Starting from the participatory turn experienced by both constitutionalism and women´s empowerment agenda since the 90s (Section I), the article analyses women’s growing participation in constitution-making institutions and processes around the world, as well as their participation in other domains of constitution-making, mainly through civil society. Drawing from a wide set of contemporary examples in different regions of the world, it illustrates possibilities that participatory constitutionalism is opening up for women as well as the challenges that women still encounter and the strategies they develop in trying to overcome them and ensure their participation in constitution-making processes as well as the translation of that participation into effective and transformative power both inside and outside official spaces of constitution-making