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Sowing the seeds of its own failure : implementing the concept of gender mainstreaming
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Abstract
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| Despite initial optimism, gender mainstreaming often turns into a formalistic exercise whilst losing sight of its broader goal of promoting gender equality. This article suggests that a problem is gender mainstreamings largely undefined goal, combined with a rational logic underpinning its implementation. We apply a typology distinguishing substantive, procedural, and combined gendermainstreaming initiatives to analyze Belgian gender-mainstreaming policies since 1995. Our findings suggest an evolution from more procedural to more combined mainstreaming policies. The rationalist perception underlying gender mainstreaming, in combination with the absence of a gender equality policy objective, turns gender mainstreaming into a formal exercise. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Social politics : international studies in gender, state, and society. - Oxford, 1994, currens
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Publication
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Oxford
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Oxford University Press
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2011
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ISSN
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1072-4745
[print]
1468-2893
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DOI
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10.1093/SP/JXR020
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Volume/pages
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18
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(2011)
, p. 469-489
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ISI
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000298186600001
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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