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dc.contributor.authorUnterhalter, Elaine
dc.contributor.authorNorth, Amy
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-27T09:28:52Z
dc.date.available2017-01-27T09:28:52Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.citationUnterhalter, E. and North, A. (2010) Assessing gender mainstreaming in the education sector: depoliticised technique or a step towards women’s rights and gender equality? Compare 40 (4), pp. 389-404. DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2010.490358
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/12754
dc.description.abstractIn 1995 the Beijing Conference on Women identified gender mainstreaming as a key area for action. Policies to effect gender mainstreaming have since been widely adopted. This special issue of Compare looks at research on how gender mainstreaming has been used in government education departments, schools, higher education institutions, international agencies and NGOs .1 In this introduction we first provide a brief history of the emergence of gender mainstreaming and review changing definitions of the term. In the process we outline some policy initiatives that have attempted to mainstream gender and consider some difficulties with putting ideas into practice, particularly the tensions between a technical and transformative interpretations . Much of the literature about experiences with gender mainstreaming tends to look at organizational processes and not any specificities of a particular social sector. However, in our second section, we are concerned to explore whether institutional forms and particular actions associated with education give gender mainstreaming in education sites some distinctive features. In our last section we consider some of the debates about global and local negotiations in discussions of gender policy and education and the light this throws on gender mainstreaming. In so doing, we place the articles that follow in relation to contestations over ownership, political economy, the form and content of education practice and the social complexity of gender equality.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.subjectGender
dc.titleAssessing Gender Mainstreaming in the Education Sector: Depoliticised Technique or a Step Towards Women's Rights and Gender Equality?
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.rights.holder© British Association for International and Comparative Education
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2010.490358
dc.identifier.agES/E021859/1, RES-167-25-0260
dc.identifier.agEPD/254
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/03057925.2010.490358


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