Mainstreaming gender, democratizing the State?
Subtitle: institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
By: Shirin M. Rai, editor.
Contributors: United Nations.
Series: Perspectives on democratization
Publisher: Manchester University Press; distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Women -- Government policy; Women in politics; Women -- Social conditions; Democratization; Equality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-291) and index.
"Published for and on behalf of the United Nations."
Table of contents: title: Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women: mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state? / Shirin M. Rai; title: Gender mainstreaming: conceptual links to institutional machineries / Kathleen Staudt; title: National women's machinery: state-based institutions to advocate for gender equality / Anne Marie Goetz; title: National women's machineries: structures and spaces / Nüket Kardam and Selma Acuner; title: The role of the women's movement in institutionalizing a gender focus in public policy: the  Ecuadorian experience / Silvia Vega Ugalde; title: The National Commission on the role of Filipino women, the women's movement and gender mainstreaming in the Philippines / Jurgette Honculada and Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo; title: National machinery for gender equality in Sweden and other Nordic countries / Birgitta ⁰Aseskog; title: Gender awareness and the national machineries in the countries of central and eastern Europe / Zuzana Jezerska; title: The government of the United Kingdom: the Women's National Commission / Wendy Stokes; title: The national machinery for gender equality in Uganda: institutionalized gesture politics? / Joy C. Kwesiga; title: The National Commission for Women: the Indian experience / Shirin M. Rai; title: The life and times of women's policy machinery in Australia / Marian Sawer.