L9 State feminism and GM

Question 1

GM definition

Answer 1

‘the reorganisation, improvement, development and evaluation of policy processes, so that a gender equality perspective is incorporated in all policies at all levels and at all stages, by the actors normally involved in policy making.’

Question 2

Critiques

Answer 2

limits of feminist bureaucracy, neoliberal discourses

Question 3

Key features of GM

Answer 3

1. siloed approach
   2.transversal
   3.structural
   4.preventative

Question 4

Project to promote biking from a gender mainstreaming & budgeting perspective (sex
disaggregated data; awareness event)

Question 5

Integrationist GM & inclusion

Answer 5

integration in existing Policy

Focus on WPA, evidence based

aims for neutral policy making

+effective integration
-technocratic, exclusion of ‘non-experts’, assimilation

Question 6

Agenda setting GM & Reversal

Answer 6

rethinking existing policy from Women’s perspective, aims to include CSO + marginalised

+ recognises elites/non experts
-freezes group identities

Question 7

Transformative GM & Displacement

Answer 7

denaturalises institutionally accepted conceptions of equality by politicizing them/policy aims

+sensitive to diversity/intersectionality
-complex, lack of specificity