Sowing the Seeds of Its Own Failure: Implementing the Concept of Gender Mainstreaming

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作者
Meier, Petra [1 ]
Celis, Karen [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Antwerp, Dept Polit Sci, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium
[2] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dept Polit, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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SOCIAL POLITICS | 2011年 / 18卷 / 04期
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10.1093/sp/jxr020
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D58 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
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摘要
Despite initial optimism, gender mainstreaming often turns into a formalistic exercise whilst losing sight of its broader goal of promoting gender equality. This article suggests that a problem is gender mainstreamings largely undefined goal, combined with a rational logic underpinning its implementation. We apply a typology distinguishing substantive, procedural, and combined gender-mainstreaming initiatives to analyze Belgian gender-mainstreaming policies since 1995. Our findings suggest an evolution from more procedural to more combined mainstreaming policies. The rationalist perception underlying gender mainstreaming, in combination with the absence of a gender equality policy objective, turns gender mainstreaming into a formal exercise.
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页码:469 / 489
页数:21
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