Download or read book Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance written by Anna van der Vleuten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism.
Download or read book Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance written by Lars Engberg-Pedersen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A very valuable and much needed book on a central element in the processes of social change: the construction and reconstruction of social norms as they move between global and local levels.” —Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK “This book explores how gender equality norms are ever-evolving and argues convincingly that we cannot take their effectiveness, nor their acceptance, for granted.” —Judith Kelley, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, USA “In an era of increasing resistance to gender equality, this is a much-needed volume that attends to how gender equality norms are interpreted and contested in governance organisations ranging from the UN and the EU to Mercosur and women’s NGOs in India and Uganda.” —Ann Towns, University of Gothenburg, Sweden This edited collection provides a new theoretical approach to the study of how global norms influence social processes. It analyses the institutional and highly political processes whereby actors – be they local, national, regional or trans-national – engage with global norms of gender equality. The editors bring together key thinkers who emphasise how context and history effect norm engagement and how particular groups and actors tend to be marginalised from discussions of global norms. By proposing a situated approach that underlines the contingent, multi-level processes that occur when actors interpret, use, manipulate, bend, or betray norms, notions of norm diffusion are fundamentally challenged. This book makes a further crucial contribution to the study of norms and gender equality in global governance by analysing very different empirical contexts, from New Delhi and St. Petersburg to the Organisation of American States, and from Kampala and New York to the European Union.
Download or read book Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance written by Joanna Maria van der Vleuten and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Norms and Agency written by Ana María Muñoz Boudet and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on focus groups and interviews with nearly 4,000 women, men, girls, and boys from 20 countries, this book explores areas that are less often studied in gender and development: gender norms and agency. It reveals how little gender norms have changed, how similar they are across countries, and how they are being challenged and contested.
Download or read book Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance written by Anna van der Vleuten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism.
Download or read book Regional Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan 2024 2027 for the Near East and North Africa region written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org. [Author] [Author]. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Regional Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan 2024–2027 for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region aims to ensure its applicability across the diverse and complex contexts within the NENA region. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of the region, characterized by a spectrum of situations, the strategy incorporates a precise set of indicators that extend until 2027. This extended timeframe facilitates a systematic review of the strategy, allowing for adjustments and refinements to be made, ensuring its continued relevance and effectiveness until the targeted horizon of 2030. A collaborative agreement between FAO colleagues and the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO) brought in experts in gender equality and results-based management to develop this strategy.
Download or read book Promoting Gender Equality Abroad written by Thomas Kruessmann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU likes to be seen as a normative actor, engaged in diffusing the norms and values enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty. This book focuses on gender equality as one of these values. It shows that the EU, in implementing the mandate to promote gender equality abroad, is acting under distinctly separate sets of logic in the various policy fields and vis-�-vis different stakeholders. The same normative commitment to gender equality, when filtered through the particular logic of the various policy fields, leads to different types of external action with rather different outcomes. (Series: Gender Discussion / [Gender-Diskussion, Vol. 24) pSubject: European Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Public Policy, Politics]
Download or read book Gender Mainstreaming in Politics Administration and Development in South Asia written by Ishtiaq Jamil and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and analyzes gender mainstreaming in South Asia. Gender mainstreaming as a concept is about removing disparities between men and women – about equal access to resources, inclusion and participation in the public sphere, representation in government, and empowerment, all with the aim of achieving equal opportunities for men and women in family life, society, administration, politics, and the economy. The challenges of gender mainstreaming in South Asia are huge, especially in the contexts of patriarchal, religious, and caste-based social norms and values. Men’s dominance in politics, administration, and economic activities is distinctly visible. Women have been subservient to the policy preferences of their male counterparts. However, in recent years, more women are participating in politics at the local and national levels, in administration, and in formal economic activities. Have gender equality and equity been ensured in South Asia? This book focuses on how gender-related issues are incorporated into policy formulation and governance, how they have fared, what challenges they have encountered when these policies were put into practice, and their implications and fate in the context of five South Asian countries. The authors have used varied frameworks to analyze gender mainstreaming at the micro and macro levels. Written from public administration and political science perspectives, the book provides an overview of the possibilities and constraints of gender mainstreaming in a region, which is not only diverse in ethnicity and religion, but also in economic progress, political culture, and the state of governance.
Download or read book Federalism Feminism and Multilevel Governance written by Marian Sawer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, few gender scholars took notice of the impact of state architecture on women's representation, political opportunities, and policy achievements. Likewise scholars of federalism, devolution and multilevel governance have largely ignored their gender impact. For the first time, this book explores how women's politics is affected by and affects federalism, whether in Australia, Canada, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia or the US. Equally, it assesses the gender implications of devolution and multilevel governance in the European Union, including case studies of the UK and Germany. Globally, multilevel governance is providing new arenas for women's politics. For example, CEDAW (the UN Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) has led most governments to adopt gender-equality norms while other UN instruments have supported Aboriginal self-government. Gender scholars will find especially valuable what is revealed about the impact of political architecture on a broad range of policy issues, including gay marriage, reproductive rights and childcare. Federalism scholars will benefit from the book's wide range of cases, comparative themes and combination of gender and federalism perspectives. Written by leading experts, this book fills an important gap in both literatures.
Download or read book Gender Equality Norms and Mainstreaming written by Sharon E. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars and practitioners have criticized gender mainstreaming without considering how public servants in developing countries engage with it or the specific ways they understand gender equality, which is the goal of gender mainstreaming. I address this gap through critical frame analysis of structured, open-ended interviews with 145 mid- and upper-level public servants in the Cambodian and Rwandan agriculture and local government sectors. Drawing on the international norm contestation literature and feminist theory, this approach illuminates the dynamics of localizing international gender equality norms and offers a complement to structural explanations for the challenges of institutionalizing commitments to gender equality. In both countries, competition between gender equality and neoliberal growth and governance norms has resulted in dominant conceptions of gender equality as sameness and inclusion, which public servants understood primarily as increasing women's participation and leadership in the economy and governance, with limited, inconsistent consideration of women's rights, gender-based violence, inequality in the "private sphere," and men's roles in maintaining gender (in)equality. Although Cambodian and Rwandan understandings of gender equality reflected distinct national gender policy mandates, governance styles, and patriarchal norms, there were few differences between men and women or between sectors. Yet, although these normative processes have contributed to policy evaporation - the narrowing of formal policy mandates as they are enacted -- gender mainstreaming has nonetheless become institutionalized in both governments in ways that go beyond "tick the box" exercises. Strikingly, when considering gender equality in ordinary people's lives, interviewees' visions emphasized women's empowerment in both "public" and "private" domains, as well as the need for changes in men's mindsets. These findings suggest that placing gender equality at the service of economic growth and organizational efficiency, rather than public servants' narrow understandings of gender equality, is a main constraint to gender policy implementation. Given more explicitly rights-based policy mandates connecting "public" and "private" spheres, public servants in Cambodia and Rwanda and similar countries could be more effective allies in establishing equitable gender norms, rather than roadblocks, as may have been presumed.
Download or read book Atlas of Gender and Development How Social Norms Affect Gender Equality in non OECD Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender inequality holds back not just women but the economic and social development of entire societies. This atlas presents a new measure of gender inequality which examines women’s status according to family situation, physical integrity, son preference, civil liberties and ownership rights.
Download or read book Women Government and Policy Making in OECD Countries Fostering Diversity for Inclusive Growth written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comparative data and policy benchmarks on women's access to public leadership and inclusive gender-responsive policy-making across OECD countries.
Download or read book Gender in Local Government written by Prabha Khosla and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This sourcebook aims at providing local governments with the tools to better understand the importance of gender in the decision-making process and to reach better solutions for the communities they serve. For this publication the following key issues of local governance have been selected: participation in local government, land rights, urban planning, service provision, local government financing, violence against women and local economic development. Each of these issues is introduced by a brief gender analysis. Numerous case studies illustrate what local governments can do. Reflection questions and training exercises help trainers to develop successful training events. [...] [The manual] is designed as a companion to other UN-HABITAT training tools, providing local government trainers with the background and tested training methods they need to strengthen the gender dimension in their day-to-day training activities. The source book may also be used as a stand-alone tool, introducing local governments to gender issues and their importance for local government policy-making and project implementation." -- P. iv.
Download or read book Global Governance written by Shirin M. Rai and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-02-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are global institutions gendered? Do they play a role in continuing global inequality? Can anything be done to change them? In the first comprehensive study of global governance from a feminist perspective, this collection gathers together an exemplary line-up of internationally-renowned scholars to provide a theoretically-informed and empirically-based analysis of both the institutions of global governance and the attempts to transform them. Bringing together interdisciplinary and multi-level analyses of global governance within a coherent theoretical framework, this volume demonstrates the diversity and breadth within feminist approaches, including case studies from institutions such as the International Criminal Court and the World Bank, as well as regional organisations, such as the EU, and covering an array of policy areas including security, trade, agriculture and macroeconomics. This book provides an invaluable addition to the literature on global governance and will be essential reading for all those who study it.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism written by Tanja A. Börzel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism - the first of its kind - offers a systematic and wide-ranging survey of the scholarship on regionalism, regionalization, and regional governance. Unpacking the major debates, leading authors of the field synthesize the state of the art, provide a guide to the comparative study of regionalism, and identify future avenues of research. Twenty-seven chapters review the theoretical and empirical scholarship with regard to the emergence of regionalism, the institutional design of regional organizations and issue-specific governance, as well as the effects of regionalism and its relationship with processes of regionalization. The authors explore theories of cooperation, integration, and diffusion explaining the rise and the different forms of regionalism. The handbook also discusses the state of the art on the world regions: North America, Latin America, Europe, Eurasia, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Various chapters survey the literature on regional governance in major issue areas such as security and peace, trade and finance, environment, migration, social and gender policies, as well as democracy and human rights. Finally, the handbook engages in cross-regional comparisons with regard to institutional design, dispute settlement, identities and communities, legitimacy and democracy, as well as inter- and transregionalism.
Download or read book Handbook of Feminist Governance written by Marian Sawer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiling state-of-the-art research from 58 leading international scholars, this dynamic Handbook explores the evolution of feminist analytical and organising principles and their introduction into governance institutions in national, regional and global settings.
Download or read book Challenging the Myth of Gender Equality in Sweden written by Martinsson, Lena and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweden is often considered one of the most gender-equal countries in the world and held up as a model to follow, but the reality is more complex. This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, both offering a new perspective for an international audience, and suggesting how equality might be rethought more generally. While the authors argue that the gender-equality mantra in Sweden has led to a society with increased opportunities for some, they also assert that the dominant norm of gender equality has become nationalistic and builds upon heteronormative and racial principles. Examining the changing meanings and parameters of gender equality against the country's social-democratic tradition and in the light of contemporary neoliberal ideologies, the book constitutes an urgent contribution to the debates about gender-equality policies and politics.
