ABSTRACT
The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 1 to which Israel has been a signatory since 1991, calls upon member states to:
“Take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to modify or abolish existing laws, regulations, customs and practices which constitute discrimination against women”. (art 2, d)
“… take all appropriate measures to ‘modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women’.” (art 5, b)
