Nationality versus Gender? The Administrative Politics of Gender Parity in the United Nations and the Implementation of SCR1325
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7292991 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Davies (0000-0001-9951-8616, University of Ulster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2634-3797 • E-ISSN: 2634-3797 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isagsq/ksab013 |
| OpenAlex | W3201240876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 41 |
This article will shed light on an under-researched aspect of the implementation of gender policies in the UN Secretariat—the administrative and budgetary committees that establish the staff regulations for civilian personnel. The article will explore how the politics of UN recruitment invokes two primary identities—nationality and gender—and how these conflict with each other. Using demographic analysis of UN civilian staff in peace operations and a micro-case study of an ongoing attempt by the Secretary-General to change the staff rules and regulations to introduce a form of affirmative action to reach gender parity, this article finds that efforts to achieve the representative provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, including through gender parity of civilians in peace operations, are hampered by the primacy of national identity in international organizations as well as by the highly politicized and nation state-driven process of administrative and budgetary decision-making. By focusing on the inner dynamics of decision-making in the United Nations, the article contributes to the literature on international organizations and gender by demonstrating how normative goals can be undermined by competition among member states over internal administrative processes arising from complex principal–agent relationships
Immigration · Nationality · Normative · Parity (physics · Political science · Politics · Security council · State (computer science · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Peacebuilding and International Security · Law · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |