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- Title
Sowing the Seeds of Its Own Failure: Implementing the Concept of Gender Mainstreaming.
- Authors
Meier, Petra; Celis, Karen
- Abstract
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 mainstreaming's 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.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; GENDER mainstreaming; GENDER inequality; SOCIAL policy; POLITICAL planning; SOCIAL norms; FRAMES (Social sciences); BELGIAN politics &; government, 1993-
- Publication
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2011, Vol 18, Issue 4, p469
- ISSN
1072-4745
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/sp/jxr020