Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state / ed. by Shirin Rai.

Front matter -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Conceptual frameworks -- 1 Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women -- 2 Gender mainstreaming -- Part II Comparative analyses -- 3 National women's machinery -- 4 National women's machineries -- Part III Case studies -- 5 The role of the women's movement in institutionalizing a gender focus in public policy -- 6 The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women, the women's movement and gender mainstreaming in the Philippines -- 7 National machinery for gender equality in Sweden and other Nordic countries -- 8 Gender awareness and the national machineries in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe -- 9 The government of the United Kingdom -- 10 The national machinery for gender equality in Uganda -- 11 The National Commission for Women -- 12 The life and times of women's policy machinery in Australia -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Published in association with the United Nations, this book builds on the existing body of literature on gender and democratization by looking at the relevance of national machineries for the advancement of women. It considers the appropriate mechanisms through which the mainstreaming of gender can take place, and the levels of governance involved; defines what the interests of women are, and how and by what processes these interests are represented to the state policy making structures. Global strategies for the advancement of women are considered, and how far these have penetrated at national level, illuminated by a series of case studies - gender equality in Sweden and other Nordic countries, the Ugandan ministry of Gender, Culture and Social services, gender awareness in Central and Eastern Europe, and further examples from South Korea, the Lebanon, Beijing and Australia.

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