Shirin Rai

Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State (eBook, ePUB)

Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reflects the commitment of the United Nations to promote mechanisms that aim to achieve equality between women and men. This book identifies institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women including national machineries as one of twelve critical areas of concern.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351507721
• Artikelnr.: 48867175

Autorenporträt

Shirin Rai

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Conceptual frameworks; 1: Institutional mechanisms for the
advancement of women: mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state?; 2:
Gender mainstreaming: conceptual links to institutional machineries; Part
II: Comparative analyses; 3: National womeits machinery: state-based
institutions to advocate for gender equality 1; 4: National women's
machineries: structures and spaces; Part III: Case studies; 5: The role of
the women's movement in institutionalizing a gender focus in public policy:
the Ecuadorian experience 1; 6: The National Commission on the Role of
Filipino Women, the women's movement and gender mainstreaming in the
Philippines 1 2 3; 7: National machinery for gender equality in Sweden and
other Nordic countries; 8: Gender awareness and the national machineries in
the countries of Central and Eastern Europe; 9: The government of the
United Kingdom: the Women's National Commission 1; 10: The national
machinery for gender equality in Uganda: institutionalized gesture
politics?; 11: The National Commission for Women: the Indian experience;
12: The life and times of women's policy machinery in Australia 1;
Conclusions: looking forward