Gender Mainstreaming and Social Change

Gender Mainstreaming and Empowerment

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Gender quotas, gender mainstreaming and gender relations in politics

This article seeks to reintroduce discussions on gender relations in politics back into scholarly and political debate. Many countries have adopted gender quotas, but it is unclear whether their implementation has meaningfully changed the prevalent inequalities governing gender relations in politics. This article considers whether the implementation of gender quotas could promote change, and as...

Disgust, Gender, and Social Change

Among the Karo of Indonesia, the frequency of matrilateral cross-cousin (impal) marriage has declined in recent decades. We conducted a vignette experiment to assess the contributions of a handful of factors in shaping this pattern. Surprisingly, we found that cosocialization of a hypothetical woman with her impal led to increased judgments of marriage likelihood and decreased feelings of disgu...

Gender Mainstreaming in Water Management

This paper offers an outlook on gender mainstreaming in water management in India by investigating the linkages between „gender‟ and selected practices of drinking water management. Experience from several water projects have shown that gender is not mainstreamed effectively if restricted to practices that only try to make women visible or simply add a gender component in an intervention progra...

Gender Mainstreaming: Making It Happen