European Integral Urban Policies from a Gender Perspective. Gender-Sensitive Measures, Transversality and Gender Approaches

Integrated policy strategies represent an increasingly popular approach in urban development and gender policies. This article analyses the integration between integral policies mainstreaming European Union. A specific analytical proposal is elaborated applied to promoted by EU Spain 1994 2013. The Comparative Urban Policy Portfolio Analysis used study inclusion of gender-sensitive measures local project portfolios, their transversality across sectors, relevance two main approaches analyse them. results show that programmes have incorporated measures. Results also a low level focused mainly on social integration, although they combine objectives women-centred classical areas inequality affecting women, i.e., employment, education, health, new welfare challenges linked care defamilisation. These analysing included comprehend character potential effects more gender-equal cities.