Going Transnational: On Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Studies

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...

Gender Mainstreaming: Making It Happen

The invisibility of gender in diaspora and transnational studies

This article analyses the performative and lived realities of the Zimbabwean diaspora in Britain. The author explores the way in which both public and private spaces of the diaspora are important arenas in the construction and reconstruction of gendered identities. It is based on multi-sited ethnography, comprising 33 indepth interviews and participant observation in four research sites, and dr...

Making a gender difference: case studies of gender mainstreaming in medical education.

BACKGROUND Curricula are accommodated to the interests of new groups after pressure from social movements outside institutions. A Dutch national project to integrate gender-gender mainstreaming (GM)-in all medical curricula started in 2002 and finished in 2005. GM is a long-term strategy which aims at eliminating gender bias in existing routines for which involvement of regular actors within th...