Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women

Democratization has become an important concept in the last ten years. With the end of the Cold War, the spread of globalization, and the extension of economic regulatory regimes, democratization has come to be seen as important to securing long-term political stability. Much has been written about...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: United Nations. Division for the Advancement of Women, issuing body, contributor (issuing body)
Other Authors: Rai, Shirin M (auth), Rai, Shirin, editor, contributor (editor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press 2003
2018.
Series:Perspectives on democratization.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427389406719
Table of Contents:
  • 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