Development and public policies on gender equality: (Re)producing what?

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOLEDAD VIEITEZ
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Public Policies

Gender Equality and Sustainable Development Within the Scope of Peace as a Global Public Good

2022 ◽  
pp. 530-544
Author(s):  
Gamze Yıldız Şeren Kurular
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Global Public Good ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
A Chain

In this chapter, it aimed to bring a multidimensional approach to the “peace” process. The elements of this multiple approach are gender equality and global public policies. It is thought that the mobilization of these two elements in the peace process will be the cornerstone of sustainable development in the world. In this context, gender equality (Goal 5) and peace, justice and strong insights (Goal 16), which is one of the United Nations' sustainable development goals, are engaged in the global public policies. Accordingly, public policies and the peace process involving women will lead to a chain impact that will support sustainable development. While ensuring gender equality provides a solution in the peace process, peace building, and gender equality contribute to sustainable development together. Because the empowerment of the most damaged society in the post-war period will undoubtedly contribute to sustainable development.

scholarly journals How Gender Is Recognised in Economic and Education Policy Programmes and Initiatives: An Analysis of Nigerian State Policy Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 465
Author(s):  
Ethel Ewoh-Odoyi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Policy Documents

Many African states are involved in the frontline discourse on the fight for gender equality through the adoption of public policies, aiming to improve the lives of women through social, economic, and political development. In Nigeria, despite the adoption of Article 42 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 adapted from the United Nations principles of gender equality, which provides for equality and elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, the Nigerian state still struggles with different forms of gendered marginalisation issues against women in various aspects of Nigerian society; these issues are mainly due to cultural, economic, and legislative challenges. Therefore, this article explores how gender is recognized through public policy programmes and initiatives using a qualitative content analysis of relevant policy documents. The documents were collected from various government ministries and cover policy areas that represent entrepreneurship and economic activities in Nigeria between 2000 and 2020. The analysis confirms the recognition of gender in public policies by subjective bias and mediating access to education for female gender advancement in Nigerian society. Some gender gaps were also recognized and discussed in the article.

scholarly journals Gender equality in science - equal opportunities and special measures in legal regulations

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-276
Author(s):  
Marijana Pajvancic
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right

The text focuses on researching the sources that define public policies and those that form the legal framework within which there are (or are not) equal opportunities for women and men to exercise their rights under equal conditions, including the right to engage in scientific work. Documents (strategies and action plans) in the fields of education, science, gender equality and non-discrimination are the subject of attention. The research is also supported by legal regulations that positivise public policies through binding norms, which include international legal sources containing human rights and gender equality standards in the field of scientific work, as well as domestic legislation (Constitution and laws). The Constitution of the Republic of Serbia in its basic principles guarantees the equality of women and men and obliges the state to pursue a policy of equal opportunities and take special measures in order to achieve in practice the gender equality proclaimed by the Constitution. Our question is whether the state fulfils this constitutional obligation, whether it pursues a policy of equal opportunities in the field of science, whether it takes special measures as instruments for conducting a policy of equal opportunities, whether any special measures which are undertaken are sufficient and what effect they have.

scholarly journals Empoderamiento político de las mujeres: una estrategia integral para políticas públicas = Political empowerment of women: a comprehensive policy strategy for public policies

2017 ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Patricia Fernández de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
Policy Strategy ◽  
Action Strategy ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Individual Dimension

RESUMEN: La dificultad de elaborar políticas públicas capaces de integrar una estrategia de acción dirigida a la participación política y el ejercicio de una ciudadanía activa por parte de las mujeres obliga a recapacitar sobre modelos de actuación cuyo objetivo contemple al mismo tiempo la dimensión colectiva y la individual del empoderamiento político, como clave estratégica para el diseño de políticas de igualdad de género que pretendan tal finalidad. El presente trabajo ofrece una propuesta de medidas para las políticas de igualdad que, combinadas unas con otras atendiendo a la situación actual del panorama político, responden a una estrategia de acción integral para el empoderamiento político de las mujeres.ABSTRACT: The difficulty of developing public policies capable of integrating an action strategy aimed at political participation and the exercise of active citizenship by women forced to rethink models of action aimed at the same time contemplating collective and individual dimension of political empowerment as a strategic key to the design of gender equality policies that seek this purpose. This work presents a proposal of measures for equality policies, combined with each other in response to the current situation of the Spanish panorama, reflect a comprehensive action strategy for the political empowerment of women.PALABRAS CLAVE: empoderamiento; políticas; ciudadanía; participación; igualdad. KEYWORDS: empowerment; policies; citizenship; participation; equality.

Understanding Exclusionary Inclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 56-83
Author(s):  
Natasha Behl
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Associational Life ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Informal Rules

Chapters 4 utilizes interview and participant observation data to focus on Sikh women’s lived experience of exclusionary inclusion in civil society and the home. Chapter 4 demonstrates how research participants construct the category of woman in relation to home and marriage, and how they naturalize exclusionary inclusion through the following unwritten and informal rules: (1) women’s rights and duties, (2) public policies, (3) women’s religiosity, (4) women’s purity, and (5) women as perpetual outsiders. A majority of research participants understand gender equality and religious autonomy as competing goals, which makes it more difficult to achieve equality. The ethnographic data reveals that Sikh women do not experience civil society as an uncoerced space of voluntary associational life, and they do not experience the home as a place of safety, security, and respect. Rather they experience exclusionary inclusion in both these spaces.

Gender Equality and Sustainable Development Within the Scope of Peace as a Global Public Good

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
Gamze Yıldız Şeren Kurular
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Global Public Good ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
A Chain

In this chapter, it aimed to bring a multidimensional approach to the “peace” process. The elements of this multiple approach are gender equality and global public policies. It is thought that the mobilization of these two elements in the peace process will be the cornerstone of sustainable development in the world. In this context, gender equality (Goal 5) and peace, justice and strong insights (Goal 16), which is one of the United Nations' sustainable development goals, are engaged in the global public policies. Accordingly, public policies and the peace process involving women will lead to a chain impact that will support sustainable development. While ensuring gender equality provides a solution in the peace process, peace building, and gender equality contribute to sustainable development together. Because the empowerment of the most damaged society in the post-war period will undoubtedly contribute to sustainable development.

scholarly journals European public policies for gender equality in the Arab Mediterranean region

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Daniela Cherubini ◽  
◽  
Paola Rivetti ◽  
Carmen Leccardi ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
European Public

PUBLIC POLICIES ADVANCE TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Araneda Guirriman ◽  
Margarita Ercilia Aravena Gaete ◽  
Diana Flores Noya
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Public Policies

scholarly journals Conciliación (laboral y familiar) = Reconciliation (of work and family life)

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Palomo Cermeño
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
Work Family

 Resumen: La conciliación de la vida personal, familiar y laboral supone un reto para cualquier sociedad que pretenda hacer efectiva la igualdad de género. El actual desarrollo de políticas públicas en este sentido se enfrenta a diversos obstáculos económicos, políticos e ideológicos relacionados con el modo en que se ha conformado y conceptualizado históricamente la división sexual del trabajo en torno a dos espacios separados y jerarquizados: el público y el privado. Se revisa el marco normativo español y europeo en el que se insertan las diversas medidas de conciliación. Por último, se hace referencia a los debates más actuales en torno a los principales logros y limitaciones de las medidas de conciliación, y a la necesidad de desarrollar una verdadera corresponsabilidad entre mujeres y hombres respecto a las responsabilidades domésticas y de cuidados.Palabras clave: Conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar, corresponsabilidad, cuidados, división sexual del trabajo, igualdad de género, políticas públicas.Abstract: The reconciliation of work and family life is a challenge for any society willing to implement gender equality. The present development of public policies in this sense faces different economic, political and ideological obstacles related to how the sexual division of labor has been shaped and conceptualized historically around two separate and hierarchical public and private spheres. The Spanish and European legal framework in which reconciliation policies are inserted is revised. Finally, present debates on reconciliation measures’ main achievements and constraints as well as the need to develop real co-responsibility between women and men regarding domestic and care work are raised.Keywords: Work/family reconciliation, co-responsibility, care, sexual division of labor, gender equality, public policies.

scholarly journals From Wollstonecraft’s dilemma to Nancy Fraser’s theory of gender justice: a proposal for the analysis of gender equality policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-30
Author(s):  
Laura Flores Anarte
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Nancy Fraser

Social policies are an essential instrument for fighting against women’s discrimination and overcoming gender inequality. However, an agreement about what gender equality consists of has not been achieved yet and, consequently, neither has a consensus been reached about what the suitable meanings (speaking in terms of public policies) to reach that egalitarian paradigm. The main confrontation in this regard has been featured by the alternative positions held by the equality feminism and by the difference feminism. Based on the theoretical contributions developed by Nancy Fraser to try to overcome this dilemma, this paper aims to present some criteria that we consider key to the analysis of a given system of gender equality public policies when it comes to assessing its transformative-gender capacity, that is, the potential of these measures to subvert the unequal gendered power relations that lie on the basis of women’s subordination.

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