Maria Bustelo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Bustelo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Bustelo |
| SIGNATURE | BUSTELO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7054-9889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Gender biases in the evaluation of knowledge transfer: A meta-evaluative analysis of the Spanish “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Sexennium”
This paper analyses from a gender perspective a pilot call for evaluating academics and researcher transfer and innovation activities, launched by the Spanish Government in 2018, known as the "Knowledge Transfer & Innovation Sexennium" (KT&IS). Not only women's participation was much lower than that of men (1 woman applicant for every 3 men applicants), but also, they showed lower success rates than men in all scientific fields, with an average g…
Tensions, Challenges, and Opportunities: Internal Networks Supporting Gender Equality Policy Processes and Structural Change in Universities
This article examines the role of internal networks in supporting gender equality (GE) units and GE policy processes within universities, focusing on the tensions, challenges, and opportunities that can be encountered. Using two illustrative cases from Spain and employing a qualitative approach, it explores how these networks, bridging top-down and bottom-up approaches, navigate the balance between centralized and decentralized approaches in mana…
Gender Equality Policies “Confined”: Adopted Frames in the Prison System in Spain
The literature on gender and politics has consistently neglected the study of gender inequalities in penal institutions. Our article contributes to filling this gap by examining how gender inequality is represented and framed as a policy problem in the Spanish “Action Program for Gender Equality between Women and Men in the Prison System.” Using critical frame analysis, our findings reveal that gender equality policies in prisons reinforce matern…
The practice of ideas in gender equality policy: Comparative lessons from the field
This thematic section seeks to contribute to emerging research on gender and policy that combines post-adoption and ideational approaches to address how and why ideas matter in gender equality policy implementation. In this article, the two research streams are first discussed. Next, the potential ingredients for gender transformation from current research are presented and then examined in the cases of post-adoption in Spain, the UK, the Netherl…
Theorizing the penal state: The darkside of gender regimes in the case of Spain
The goal of this article is to contribute to ongoing efforts to strengthen gender regimes theory by proposing a new sub domain within the institutional domain of violence that brings in the penal state – any part of formal politico-administrative structures that arrests and incarcerates women. Based on interdisciplinary research on gender, crime and punishment that shows the importance of understanding the penal state for women's rights and gende…
Gender equality in prison reform in Spain: How a gender-biased, closed policy system prevents real change
This article aims to understand what happens when gender equality policies cross prison walls – a challenging domain that has traditionally been invisibilised and ignored in the scholarship on gender and politics. By analysing the formulation and post-adoption phases in Spain, four main conclusions are drawn: first, the formulation phase has been highly impacted by the absence of the feminist movement and gender experts, resulting in the adoption…
Sexual and sexist harassment in Spanish universities: Policy Implementation and Resistances Against Gender Equality Measures
The legal mandate to mainstream gender equality in Spain’s universities has led to the establishment of gender equality units and the adoption of gender equality policy plans and protocols against sexual harassment. This research looks at how gender equality policies have been implemented within universities and what resisting and facilitating factors have hindered and promoted their implementation. These questions are addressed by studying the i…
Policy evaluation and gender mainstreaming in the European Union: The perfect (mis)match
This article assesses the ability of the European Commission’s current approach to policy evaluation to evaluate gender mainstreaming and, in turn, other cross-cutting social agendas (Articles 8–10 TFEU). Taking European Union research policy as a case study, through our analysis, we reveal mismatches between current evaluation standards adopted within the Better Regulation framework and requirements for effectively assessing progress towards cro…
Professional Evaluation in the Public Interest(s)
Efforts to promote professionalism in evaluation, whether through certification, credentialing, or other path, are not new, but there is a new push to adopt sets of essential evaluator competencies, both in the United States and globally, that are intended to advance professionalism of the field. This emphasis on professionalism is relevant to the American Journal of Evaluation Section on Professional Values and Ethics in that this section focuse…
Evaluation from a Gender+ Perspective as a Key Element for (Re)gendering the Policymaking Process
Feminist scholars have challenged the neutrality of policymaking processes and the outputs resulting from these processes. However, some elements of policymaking have not been studied as well as others. In this article I explore the concept of evaluation from a gender+ perspective as an essential step for a complete gender mainstreaming strategy, which can help to identify gender issues that should be integrated into the content of evaluated poli…
Evaluation, Language, and Untranslatables
The issue of translatability is pressing in international evaluation, in global transfer of evaluative instruments, in comparative performance management, and in culturally responsive evaluation. Terms that are never fully understood, digested, or accepted may continue to influence issues, problems, and social interactions in and around and after evaluations. Their meanings can be imposed or reinvented. Untranslatable terms are not just “lost in …
Providing Appropriate Evaluative Support for Valuing in the Public Interest
Professional Values and Ethics in Evaluation
Three Decades of State Feminism and Gender Equality Policies in Multi-governed Spain
Political Approaches to Inequalities in Southern Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Italy, Portugal, and Spain
This article analyses political approaches to inequalities in three south European countries: Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Analysis is based on Crenshaw's (1991) concept of political intersectionality, McCall's (2001, 2005) broader structures of inequality and "configuration of inequality," and scholarly works on the institutionalization of multiple inequalities (Hancock 2007; Kantola and Nousiainen 2009; Weldon 2008). Focusing on gender, ethnicit…
Spain: Intersectionality Faces the Strong Gender Norm
The changes generated in Europe by the growing concern with multiple inequality strands have reached Spain after some delay. Whereas comprehensive gender equality machineries and policy instruments have been developed both at the national and regional levels since the late 1980s, these have shown limited concern for multiple discrimination as respective strands of inequality were being tackled by specific institutions and policy mechanisms. Neith…
Promotion de l'égalité en Espagne: De la parité politique à la lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes
Nous nous proposons d’analyser dans cet article les changements qui ont vu passer l’Espagne, en à peine trois décennies, du statut de retardataire à celui de pionnière en matière de promotion de l’égalité entre hommes et femmes. Pour cela, nous plaçons l’accent sur les mesures mises en œuvre au cours du premier mandat de José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (2004-2008) dans le traitement de la sous-représentation politique des femmes et des violences de …
Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A critical frame analysis of gender policies in Europe
This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of the diverse meanings of gender equality it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality, and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and deba…
The Potential Role of Standards and Guidelines in the Development of an Evaluation Culture in Spain
This article discusses the potential role that the creation of evaluation standards or guidelines can play in developing an evaluation culture in Spain. Rather than focus on the ethical function of these standards or guidelines, this article discusses how the process of creating such codes, whenever this process is participatory and based on real evaluation practice, can help the academic and professional consolidation and institutionalization of…
Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming: Ideas from a Meta-Evaluation Study
The new policy strategy of ‘gender mainstreaming’ poses particular challenges for the evaluation of public gender-equality policies. To elaborate on this issue, a first step is to analyse the evaluation of those public genderequality policies that have formally adopted the gender mainstreaming strategy. In this article, results are summarized from a meta-evaluation of 11 evaluation processes of gender-equality plans implemented between 1995 and 1…
Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming: Ideas from a Meta-evaluation Study
The new policy strategy of ‘gender mainstreaming’ poses particular challenges for the evaluation of public gender-equality policies. To elaborate on this issue, a first step is to analyse the evaluation of those public gender-equality policies that have formally adopted the gender mainstreaming strategy. In this article, results are summarized from a meta-evaluation of 11 evaluation processes of gender-equality plans implemented between 1995 and …
Three Decades of State Feminism and Gender Equality Policies in Multi-governed Spain
Evaluation from a Gender+ Perspective as a Key Element for (Re)gendering the Policymaking Process
Feminist scholars have challenged the neutrality of policymaking processes and the outputs resulting from these processes. However, some elements of policymaking have not been studied as well as others. In this article I explore the concept of evaluation from a gender+ perspective as an essential step for a complete gender mainstreaming strategy, which can help to identify gender issues that should be integrated into the content of evaluated poli…
Sexual and sexist harassment in Spanish universities: Policy Implementation and Resistances Against Gender Equality Measures
The legal mandate to mainstream gender equality in Spain’s universities has led to the establishment of gender equality units and the adoption of gender equality policy plans and protocols against sexual harassment. This research looks at how gender equality policies have been implemented within universities and what resisting and facilitating factors have hindered and promoted their implementation. These questions are addressed by studying the i…
Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming: Ideas from a Meta-evaluation Study
The new policy strategy of ‘gender mainstreaming’ poses particular challenges for the evaluation of public gender-equality policies. To elaborate on this issue, a first step is to analyse the evaluation of those public gender-equality policies that have formally adopted the gender mainstreaming strategy. In this article, results are summarized from a meta-evaluation of 11 evaluation processes of gender-equality plans implemented between 1995 and …
Political Approaches to Inequalities in Southern Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Italy, Portugal, and Spain
This article analyses political approaches to inequalities in three south European countries: Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Analysis is based on Crenshaw's (1991) concept of political intersectionality, McCall's (2001, 2005) broader structures of inequality and "configuration of inequality," and scholarly works on the institutionalization of multiple inequalities (Hancock 2007; Kantola and Nousiainen 2009; Weldon 2008). Focusing on gender, ethnicit…
Spain: Intersectionality Faces the Strong Gender Norm
The changes generated in Europe by the growing concern with multiple inequality strands have reached Spain after some delay. Whereas comprehensive gender equality machineries and policy instruments have been developed both at the national and regional levels since the late 1980s, these have shown limited concern for multiple discrimination as respective strands of inequality were being tackled by specific institutions and policy mechanisms. Neith…
Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming: Ideas from a Meta-Evaluation Study
The new policy strategy of ‘gender mainstreaming’ poses particular challenges for the evaluation of public gender-equality policies. To elaborate on this issue, a first step is to analyse the evaluation of those public genderequality policies that have formally adopted the gender mainstreaming strategy. In this article, results are summarized from a meta-evaluation of 11 evaluation processes of gender-equality plans implemented between 1995 and 1…
The Potential Role of Standards and Guidelines in the Development of an Evaluation Culture in Spain
This article discusses the potential role that the creation of evaluation standards or guidelines can play in developing an evaluation culture in Spain. Rather than focus on the ethical function of these standards or guidelines, this article discusses how the process of creating such codes, whenever this process is participatory and based on real evaluation practice, can help the academic and professional consolidation and institutionalization of…
Tensions, Challenges, and Opportunities: Internal Networks Supporting Gender Equality Policy Processes and Structural Change in Universities
This article examines the role of internal networks in supporting gender equality (GE) units and GE policy processes within universities, focusing on the tensions, challenges, and opportunities that can be encountered. Using two illustrative cases from Spain and employing a qualitative approach, it explores how these networks, bridging top-down and bottom-up approaches, navigate the balance between centralized and decentralized approaches in mana…
Evaluation, Language, and Untranslatables
The issue of translatability is pressing in international evaluation, in global transfer of evaluative instruments, in comparative performance management, and in culturally responsive evaluation. Terms that are never fully understood, digested, or accepted may continue to influence issues, problems, and social interactions in and around and after evaluations. Their meanings can be imposed or reinvented. Untranslatable terms are not just “lost in …
Gender Equality Policies “Confined”: Adopted Frames in the Prison System in Spain
The literature on gender and politics has consistently neglected the study of gender inequalities in penal institutions. Our article contributes to filling this gap by examining how gender inequality is represented and framed as a policy problem in the Spanish “Action Program for Gender Equality between Women and Men in the Prison System.” Using critical frame analysis, our findings reveal that gender equality policies in prisons reinforce matern…
Theorizing the penal state: The darkside of gender regimes in the case of Spain
The goal of this article is to contribute to ongoing efforts to strengthen gender regimes theory by proposing a new sub domain within the institutional domain of violence that brings in the penal state – any part of formal politico-administrative structures that arrests and incarcerates women. Based on interdisciplinary research on gender, crime and punishment that shows the importance of understanding the penal state for women's rights and gende…
Policy evaluation and gender mainstreaming in the European Union: The perfect (mis)match
This article assesses the ability of the European Commission’s current approach to policy evaluation to evaluate gender mainstreaming and, in turn, other cross-cutting social agendas (Articles 8–10 TFEU). Taking European Union research policy as a case study, through our analysis, we reveal mismatches between current evaluation standards adopted within the Better Regulation framework and requirements for effectively assessing progress towards cro…
Professional Evaluation in the Public Interest(s)
Efforts to promote professionalism in evaluation, whether through certification, credentialing, or other path, are not new, but there is a new push to adopt sets of essential evaluator competencies, both in the United States and globally, that are intended to advance professionalism of the field. This emphasis on professionalism is relevant to the American Journal of Evaluation Section on Professional Values and Ethics in that this section focuse…
Professional Values and Ethics in Evaluation
Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming: Ideas from a Meta-Evaluation Study
The new policy strategy of ‘gender mainstreaming’ poses particular challenges for the evaluation of public gender-equality policies. To elaborate on this issue, a first step is to analyse the evaluation of those public genderequality policies that have formally adopted the gender mainstreaming strategy. In this article, results are summarized from a meta-evaluation of 11 evaluation processes of gender-equality plans implemented between 1995 and 1…
Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming: Ideas from a Meta-evaluation Study
The new policy strategy of ‘gender mainstreaming’ poses particular challenges for the evaluation of public gender-equality policies. To elaborate on this issue, a first step is to analyse the evaluation of those public gender-equality policies that have formally adopted the gender mainstreaming strategy. In this article, results are summarized from a meta-evaluation of 11 evaluation processes of gender-equality plans implemented between 1995 and …
The Potential Role of Standards and Guidelines in the Development of an Evaluation Culture in Spain
This article discusses the potential role that the creation of evaluation standards or guidelines can play in developing an evaluation culture in Spain. Rather than focus on the ethical function of these standards or guidelines, this article discusses how the process of creating such codes, whenever this process is participatory and based on real evaluation practice, can help the academic and professional consolidation and institutionalization of…
Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A critical frame analysis of gender policies in Europe
This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of the diverse meanings of gender equality it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality, and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and deba…
Spain: Intersectionality Faces the Strong Gender Norm
The changes generated in Europe by the growing concern with multiple inequality strands have reached Spain after some delay. Whereas comprehensive gender equality machineries and policy instruments have been developed both at the national and regional levels since the late 1980s, these have shown limited concern for multiple discrimination as respective strands of inequality were being tackled by specific institutions and policy mechanisms. Neith…
Promotion de l'égalité en Espagne: De la parité politique à la lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes
Nous nous proposons d’analyser dans cet article les changements qui ont vu passer l’Espagne, en à peine trois décennies, du statut de retardataire à celui de pionnière en matière de promotion de l’égalité entre hommes et femmes. Pour cela, nous plaçons l’accent sur les mesures mises en œuvre au cours du premier mandat de José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (2004-2008) dans le traitement de la sous-représentation politique des femmes et des violences de …
Political Approaches to Inequalities in Southern Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Italy, Portugal, and Spain
This article analyses political approaches to inequalities in three south European countries: Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Analysis is based on Crenshaw's (1991) concept of political intersectionality, McCall's (2001, 2005) broader structures of inequality and "configuration of inequality," and scholarly works on the institutionalization of multiple inequalities (Hancock 2007; Kantola and Nousiainen 2009; Weldon 2008). Focusing on gender, ethnicit…
Professional Values and Ethics in Evaluation
Three Decades of State Feminism and Gender Equality Policies in Multi-governed Spain
Providing Appropriate Evaluative Support for Valuing in the Public Interest
Evaluation, Language, and Untranslatables
The issue of translatability is pressing in international evaluation, in global transfer of evaluative instruments, in comparative performance management, and in culturally responsive evaluation. Terms that are never fully understood, digested, or accepted may continue to influence issues, problems, and social interactions in and around and after evaluations. Their meanings can be imposed or reinvented. Untranslatable terms are not just “lost in …
Professional Evaluation in the Public Interest(s)
Efforts to promote professionalism in evaluation, whether through certification, credentialing, or other path, are not new, but there is a new push to adopt sets of essential evaluator competencies, both in the United States and globally, that are intended to advance professionalism of the field. This emphasis on professionalism is relevant to the American Journal of Evaluation Section on Professional Values and Ethics in that this section focuse…
Evaluation from a Gender+ Perspective as a Key Element for (Re)gendering the Policymaking Process
Feminist scholars have challenged the neutrality of policymaking processes and the outputs resulting from these processes. However, some elements of policymaking have not been studied as well as others. In this article I explore the concept of evaluation from a gender+ perspective as an essential step for a complete gender mainstreaming strategy, which can help to identify gender issues that should be integrated into the content of evaluated poli…
Policy evaluation and gender mainstreaming in the European Union: The perfect (mis)match
This article assesses the ability of the European Commission’s current approach to policy evaluation to evaluate gender mainstreaming and, in turn, other cross-cutting social agendas (Articles 8–10 TFEU). Taking European Union research policy as a case study, through our analysis, we reveal mismatches between current evaluation standards adopted within the Better Regulation framework and requirements for effectively assessing progress towards cro…
Gender equality in prison reform in Spain: How a gender-biased, closed policy system prevents real change
This article aims to understand what happens when gender equality policies cross prison walls – a challenging domain that has traditionally been invisibilised and ignored in the scholarship on gender and politics. By analysing the formulation and post-adoption phases in Spain, four main conclusions are drawn: first, the formulation phase has been highly impacted by the absence of the feminist movement and gender experts, resulting in the adoption…
Sexual and sexist harassment in Spanish universities: Policy Implementation and Resistances Against Gender Equality Measures
The legal mandate to mainstream gender equality in Spain’s universities has led to the establishment of gender equality units and the adoption of gender equality policy plans and protocols against sexual harassment. This research looks at how gender equality policies have been implemented within universities and what resisting and facilitating factors have hindered and promoted their implementation. These questions are addressed by studying the i…
The practice of ideas in gender equality policy: Comparative lessons from the field
This thematic section seeks to contribute to emerging research on gender and policy that combines post-adoption and ideational approaches to address how and why ideas matter in gender equality policy implementation. In this article, the two research streams are first discussed. Next, the potential ingredients for gender transformation from current research are presented and then examined in the cases of post-adoption in Spain, the UK, the Netherl…
Theorizing the penal state: The darkside of gender regimes in the case of Spain
The goal of this article is to contribute to ongoing efforts to strengthen gender regimes theory by proposing a new sub domain within the institutional domain of violence that brings in the penal state – any part of formal politico-administrative structures that arrests and incarcerates women. Based on interdisciplinary research on gender, crime and punishment that shows the importance of understanding the penal state for women's rights and gende…
Gender biases in the evaluation of knowledge transfer: A meta-evaluative analysis of the Spanish “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Sexennium”
This paper analyses from a gender perspective a pilot call for evaluating academics and researcher transfer and innovation activities, launched by the Spanish Government in 2018, known as the "Knowledge Transfer & Innovation Sexennium" (KT&IS). Not only women's participation was much lower than that of men (1 woman applicant for every 3 men applicants), but also, they showed lower success rates than men in all scientific fields, with an average g…
Tensions, Challenges, and Opportunities: Internal Networks Supporting Gender Equality Policy Processes and Structural Change in Universities
This article examines the role of internal networks in supporting gender equality (GE) units and GE policy processes within universities, focusing on the tensions, challenges, and opportunities that can be encountered. Using two illustrative cases from Spain and employing a qualitative approach, it explores how these networks, bridging top-down and bottom-up approaches, navigate the balance between centralized and decentralized approaches in mana…
Gender Equality Policies “Confined”: Adopted Frames in the Prison System in Spain
The literature on gender and politics has consistently neglected the study of gender inequalities in penal institutions. Our article contributes to filling this gap by examining how gender inequality is represented and framed as a policy problem in the Spanish “Action Program for Gender Equality between Women and Men in the Prison System.” Using critical frame analysis, our findings reveal that gender equality policies in prisons reinforce matern…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (14 works) · Gender equality (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works)