GENDER INEQUALITIES IN THE LIGHT OF EU GENDER MAINSTREAMING ACTIVITIES

Gender quotas, gender mainstreaming and gender relations in politics

This article seeks to reintroduce discussions on gender relations in politics back into scholarly and political debate. Many countries have adopted gender quotas, but it is unclear whether their implementation has meaningfully changed the prevalent inequalities governing gender relations in politics. This article considers whether the implementation of gender quotas could promote change, and as...

Gender Mainstreaming and Empowerment

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Gender Mainstreaming in Water Management

This paper offers an outlook on gender mainstreaming in water management in India by investigating the linkages between „gender‟ and selected practices of drinking water management. Experience from several water projects have shown that gender is not mainstreamed effectively if restricted to practices that only try to make women visible or simply add a gender component in an intervention progra...

Mainstreaming gender in the European Union

Journal of European Public Policy ISSN 1350-1763 print/ISSN 1466-4429 online © 2000 Taylor & Francis Ltd http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals ABSTRACT This article examines and explains the adoption of gender mainstreaming by the European Union (EU), and traces its implementation in five issue-areas of EU policy: Structural Funds, employment, development, competition, and science, research and devel...

Gender Mainstreaming in the Education Sector