From Sex Roles to Gendered Institutions

Acker, Joan

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“…The framing of gender aspects in livelihood studies needs to go beyond categories and roles of men and women, and needs to allow for a deeper analysis that grasps the lived experiences of men and women as shaped by different social realities. Doing so requires the conceptualisation of gender as a constituent element of social structure and cultural interpretation (Scott 1986), and as an integral aspect of social processes (Acker 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, gender must be conceived of as a central aspect of mediating processes. Attaining this necessitates an understanding of what are often called gendered institutions-a notion used to explain how gender relations and the construction of femininity and masculinity are entrenched in daily institutional processes and practices (Acker 1992;Lowndes and Roberts 2013). Building upon this notion, we propose to assign a central role to gendered institutions as a possible barrier to adaptation, which also directly or indirectly capture the effect of other types of barriers (e.g.…”

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A gender approach to understanding the differentiated impact of barriers to adaptation: responses to climate change in rural Ethiopia

Mersha

Laerhoven

2016

Reg Environ Change

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While adaptation has received a fair amount of attention in the climate change debate, barriers to adaptation are the focus of a more specific, recent discussion. In this discussion, such barriers are generally treated as having a uniform, negative impact on all actors. However, we argue that the precise nature and impact of such barriers on different actors has so far been largely overlooked. Our study of two drought-prone communities in rural Ethiopia sets out to examine how female-and male-headed households adapt to climate change, particularly focusing on how a variety of barriers influence the choice of adaptation measures to varying extents. To this purpose, we built a conceptual framework based on the Sustainable Livelihood Approach. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with male-and female-headed households, community leaders and local extension workers. Our findings suggest that gender-based differences in the choice of adaptation measures at the household level are driven by cultural, social, financial and institutional barriers. Barriers to adaptation-particularly when interacting-have a differentiated impact upon different actors. This outcome hints at the need for donors and policymakers to develop intervention strategies that are sensitive to this fact.

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A gender approach to understanding the differentiated impact of barriers to adaptation: responses to climate change in rural Ethiopia

Mersha

Laerhoven

2016

Reg Environ Change

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“…At its core, gender budgeting challenges embedded 'gender-blind' practices within gendered institutions (Acker, 1992;Chappell, 2006;Lovenduski, 1998) that reproduce male bias in decision-making and analysis (Elson, 1995), and subsequently result in gendered budget processes and outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender budgeting in Scotland: A work in progress

O’Hagan

2017

Administration

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After almost twenty years of devolved government in Scotland, during which gender analysis of the budget process has been advocated, this article explores the discursive framing of gender budgeting and progress towards implementation. Charting historical and conceptual developments, from feminist economics and feminist institutionalist perspectives, the article highlights the significance of engaged political, civil society and policy actors; the need for clear conceptual framing; and the time it has taken for limited progress to embed. Conscious of financial constraints and economic commitments, including an ambitious extension of publicly funded childcare, the discussion highlights the positive advances in integrating gender equality into economic analysis. It offers insight into the institutional arrangements and advocacy that have maintained pressure for the Scottish budget process to be subject to effective scrutiny and to function as a key driver of gender equality.

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“…Nonetheless, it is still relevant to examine the crisis from the perspective of gender as a category and recognise 'that organisations institutionalise definitions of masculinity, constructing gender cultures and defining gender-appropriate jobs that reflect and advance masculine norms' (Buckley & Galligan, 2013: 316). Following Connolly (2013) our starting point is that power is gendered and gender is present in the processes, practices and distribution of power (Acker, 1992). Connolly (2013) describes gendered institutions as 'gendered in their formal and informal rules and culture' with a masculine culture which makes them 'unfriendly' institutions for women.…”

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Gendering the Narrative of the Irish Crisis

Murphy

2015

Irish Political Studies

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Adding a gender dimension to the story of the Irish crisis deepens our understanding of crisis and necessary responses. Using gender both as category and process we see clear gendered patterns throughout the Irish crisis including patterns of gender inequality in gendered institutions and changes in the process of gendered agency. Reviewing the extent to which Irish political and public spheres, banking and budgetary processes are gendered raises questions about how this impacts on post crisis outcomes. The gendered lens draws attention to the risks inherent in hyper-masculine institutions and culture and questions whether greater gender balance might alter the risk oriented culture of Irish financial services. It also draws attention to the gendered nature of Irish austerity budgets which disproportionately impacted women, and low income women in particular. The crisis also impacted on feminist agency. Examining women's political agency in the context of the crisis we find examples of defensive agency that sought to protect women's interests from fiscal retrenchment. These exist alongside examples of offensive feminist agency that use the crisis as an opportunity to strengthen gender equality in the political and policy processes. We find the gender infrastructure negatively impacted but despite such damage, we find feminist agency remains crucial to realising gender equality in public and private decision-making and despite the crisis, hopeful signs of renewed feminist agency are present.

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From Sex Roles to Gendered Institutions

Cited by 757 publications

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A gender approach to understanding the differentiated impact of barriers to adaptation: responses to climate change in rural Ethiopia

A gender approach to understanding the differentiated impact of barriers to adaptation: responses to climate change in rural Ethiopia

Gender budgeting in Scotland: A work in progress

Gendering the Narrative of the Irish Crisis

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