65 research outputs found
Gender Mainstreaming and Resistance to Gender Training: A Framework for Studying Implementation
No full textResistance expressed by both organizations and participants in processes of gender training that are conducted to mainstream gender into policy-making poses a key challenge for gender mainstreaming. However, such resistance is relatively under-studied. This article explores resistance to gender training that emerges during the implementation of gender mainstreaming by determining the types and forms of resistance to gender training and by finding out just what this analysis of resistance tells us about the problems arising in the implementation of gender mainstreaming. We argue that analysing resistance to gender training-and identifying the types and forms of such resistance-can contribute to diagnosing problems in the implementation of mainstreaming and furthermore be used for improving this implementation. This study is based on data from participant observation in training processes and from the work conducted in two European research projects, QUING and TARGET, both of which debated the issue of gender training in expert meetings and forums made up of trainers, policy-makers, and academics. © 2013 © 2013 The Nordic Association for Women's Studies and Gender Research
Resistance to Implementing Gender Mainstreaming in EU Research Policy
No full textThe European Union (EU) officially committed to gender mainstreaming in the 1990s, fixing the principle in treaty articles, action programmes, and communications, and setting up institutional bodies and mechanisms to promote the incorporation of a gender perspective into policy making. However, the implementation has not reflected these official commitments, with gaps showing in the mainstreaming of gender into the EU's public policies (Bruno, Jacquot, and Mandin 2006; Mazey 2002; Rees 1998, 2005; Rubery 2002; Serrano Pascual and Behning 2001; Verloo 2001) and processes, such as the EU's enlargement to Central Eastern Europe (Bretherton 2001) or its constitution making (Lombardo 2005; Millns 2007)
Toolkit: Resistances to structural change in gender equality
No full textThis toolkit by Lucy Ferguson and Lut Mergaert is based on the collaborative efforts of a range of H2020 structural change projects – particularly SUPERA, GE Academy, Gender-SMART and GEARING-Roles. The purpose of the document is to provide practical support for those implementing structural change in research and innovation institutions.
The document is developed in three main sections: categorising and theorising resistances, common guidelines for dealing with resistances, and the resistances toolkit. An associated repository documents the kinds of resistances experienced in implementing structural change, as well as techniques for dealing with different kinds of resistances
D7.3 Topical training and train‐the‐facilitators session concepts and contents
No full textThis document contains the Topical training and train‐the‐facilitators session concepts and contents (D7.3) and has been compiled by the WP7 leader Yellow Window (YW). It is an output of Task 7.2 ‐ Development and delivery of adequate capacity‐building and training activities (M4‐M42) and presents the concepts and contents of the in‐person train‐the‐facilitators’ trainings delivered at consortium level. The training contents are presented in the form of detailed scripts, used by the trainers to deliver the capacity‐building activities, and including practical guidance about how to interact with trainees and which supporting material to use
Theorising Gender-Based Violence Policies: A 7P Framework
No full textThis paper presents and critically interrogates a comprehensive 7Ps framework for analysing and addressing gender-based violence. It takes the UN and the Council of Europe's models as points of departure and develops the framework beyond the current state of the art, explains its different components, and offers reflections on its use in the practice of gender-based violence research. The UN 3P model, encompassing prevention, protection, and prosecution, later developed by the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention into a 4P model, comprising prevention, protection, prosecution, and integrated policies, has since been revisited, elaborated upon, and expanded in work focusing on gender-based violence in particular domains, such as female genital mutilation or gender-based violence in sport. To study gender-based violence in academia, the comprehensive 7Ps analytical framework has been deployed to interrogate the policies in place at national and institutional levels, including sexual harassment. Based on empirical data and conceptual analysis in the EU project UniSAFE: Gender-based violence and institutional responses: Building a knowledge base and operational tools to make universities and research organisations safe (2021-2024), the paper argues that the refined 7Ps model, comprising Prevalence, Prevention, Protection, Prosecution of offenders (and disciplinary measures), Provision of services, Partnerships between actors, and Policies specifically addressing the issue, allows for a more encompassing approach, in turn allowing a more fine-grained understanding of variations and explanations for success (or lack thereof) in terms of outcomes.</p
Gender mainstreaming and evaluation in the EU: comparative perspectives from feminist institutionalism
No full textThis article presents a focused comparative analysis of the institutionalization of two governance practices in the European Commission that levy distinct challenges to the gender status quo: gender mainstreaming (which overtly challenges gender bias) and evaluation (which does not have explicit feminist aspirations). With reference to five dimensions, we identify evaluation as relatively strongly institutionalized, and gender mainstreaming as relatively weakly institutionalized. We draw on the explanatory power of feminist institutionalism to unpack these findings, arguing that a feminist institutional perspective can shed light on this variation, as it provides greater insight into the formal and informal institutions that constrain, enable and shape the implementation of evaluation and gender mainstreaming. We assert that the notion of path dependency, the logic of appropriateness, and the concept of layering serve as useful tools to understand the gendered nature of the European Commission. This research provides insights into the institutional factors that impact the implementation of gender equality strategies (such as gender mainstreaming). In turn, this contributes to the development of more effective strategies to promote institutional change toward greater equality
Resistance to implementing gender mainstreaming in EU research policy
No full textIn this article, we analyze the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Union (EU) through the study of ‘resistance’ to gender equality initiatives in EU research policy. Contributing to feminist institutionalist theories, we identify resistance to gender initiatives within the Directorate General Research and Innovation, showing that there have been obstacles to an effective implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme (FP6). We argue that the encountered resistances reveal tensions between the European Commission’s official mandate of mainstreaming gender equality into all policies and its actual implementation, which results in the ‘filtering out’ of transformative gender equality goal
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