Assessing gender mainstreaming in the education sector

Depoliticised technique or a step towards women’s rights and gender equality

Bibliographic Data

ID11919331
AuthorsE Unterhalter (0000-0002-2302-6583, University College London, corresponding author), Amy North (0000-0003-0546-2397, University College London, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume40
Issue4
Pages389-404
Publication date2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCompare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-7925 • E-ISSN: 1469-3623
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057925.2010.490358
OpenAlexW2059567813
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited41

In 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

Gender equality · Gender mainstreaming · Library science · Mainstreaming · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Poverty · Poverty reduction · Sociology · Special education · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law

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