ISBN:
9781137036537
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 206 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
323.3/4
Keywords:
Women's rights
;
Equality
;
Sex role
;
Feminist theory
;
Affirmative action programs Evaluation
;
Women Social conditions
;
Government policy
;
Sex discrimination against women Prevention
;
Government policy
;
Women's rights
;
Electronic books
;
Frauenpolitik
;
Quotierung
;
Gleichstellungsstelle
;
Gender Mainstreaming
Abstract:
A major new assessment of the key political initiatives currently being used to pursue gender equality around the world. Judith Squires explains the central features of gender quotas, women's policy agencies and gender mainstreaming, and evaluates arguments regarding the emergence and impact of these three initiatives.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Institutionalizing Gender Equality -- Gender Equality: A Success Story? -- Emergence, Implementation and Impact -- Presence, Voice and Process -- Governance and Diversity -- Conclusion -- 1 Equality Strategies: Quotas, Policy Agencies and Mainstreaming -- Introduction -- Gender Quotas -- Women's Policy Agencies -- Gender Mainstreaming -- Conclusion -- 2 Making a Difference? Evaluating Impact -- Introduction -- Evaluating the Success of Gender Quotas -- Evaluating the Success of Women's Policy Agencies -- Evaluating the Success of Gender Mainstreaming -- Conclusion -- 3 Working Together? Analysing Interrelations -- Judith Squires and Mona Lena Krook Introduction -- Competing Strategies -- Complementary Strategies -- Conclusions -- 4 Fair Representation? Quotas -- Introduction -- Quotas as Positive Action -- Quotas as Group Recognition -- Quotas as Democratic Innovation -- Quotas as (Strategic) Essentialism? -- Conclusion -- 5 Feminist Advocacy? Policy Agencies -- Introduction -- Women's Policy Agencies as Group Representation -- The Fragmentation of the Women's Movement -- Representing a Movement? -- State Restructuring -- Conclusion -- 6 Engendering Governance? Mainstreaming -- Introduction -- Mainstreaming as a Governance Strategy -- Mainstreaming as the Democratization of Expertise -- Mainstreaming as Rhetorical Entrapment -- Mainstreaming as Democratic Participation -- Conclusion -- 7 Future Challenges: Negotiating Diversity -- Introduction -- From Gender to Diversity -- Intersectionality: Additive and Transversal -- Diversity Mainstreaming -- Deliberation and Diversity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Formerly CIP
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