The Common Weal
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Language
English
ISBN
0-7190-5977-1
Contents
Figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
List of abbreviations
Introduction - Shirin M. Rai
Part I Conceptual frameworks
1 Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women: mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state? - Shirin M. Rai
2 Gender mainstreaming: conceptual links to institutional machineries - Kathleen Staudt
Part II Comparative analyses
3 National women’s machinery: state-based institutions to advocate for gender equality - Anne Marie Goetz
4 National women’s machineries: structures and spaces - Nüket Kardam and Selma Acuner
Part III Case studies
5 The role of the women’s movement in institutionalizing a gender focus in public policy: the Ecuadorian experience - Silvia Vega Ugalde
6 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
7 National machinery for gender equality in Sweden and other Nordic countries - Birgitta Aseskog
8 Gender awareness and the national machineries in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe - Zuzana Jezerska
9 The government of the United Kingdom: the Women’s National Commission - Wendy Stokes
10 The national machinery for gender equality in Uganda: institutionalized gesture politics? - Joy C. Kwesiga
11 The National Commission for Women: the Indian experience - Shirin M. Rai
12 The life and times of women’s policy machinery in Australia - Marian Sawer
Conclusions: looking forward - Shirin M. Rai
Bibliography
Index
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