Reflections on the uneven development of gender mainstreaming in Europe

Gender, place and mental health recovery in disasters: Addressing issues of equality and difference

“…In the EU, gender equality is mired in three different visions and strategies of gender mainstreaming: gender equality as sameness (using mainstreaming strategy of equal treatment or opportunities); affirming gender differences (using a mainstreaming strategy of special programmes to engage with gender differences); and transformation (gender mainstreaming as a strategy to displace entrenched gendered patterns for new ones) (Verloo, 2007, Walby 2005, Squires 2005, Rees 2005.…”

El gender mainstreaming en la academia portuguesa

“…Así, al mismo tiempo que es apuntado por muchos como una vía promisora para la igualdad de género por su potencial transversalidad en la gobernanza de las instituciones (Hoard, 2015), el GM es simultáneamente cuestionado (Daly, 2005;Rees, 2005;Walby, 2005) como algo vago, necesitando de concretización. Analizando sus resultados, algunas autoras, dónde se destacan feministas, evalúan la estrategia de GM como limitada (Walby, 2004).…”

Sex in the city: gender mainstreaming urban governance in Europe. The case of Sweden and Italy

“…Studies by Moss and Al-Hindi (2008) and Lavena and Riccucci (2012) indicated that gender mainstreaming is contested and surrounded by ambiguities, paradoxes and counteractions from critical perspectives of organizational theory (stressing transformative gender-equality strategies via policy and practice, cf. Rees 1998Rees , 2005, poststructuralist social movement theory (focusing on the socio-political power relationships in achieving gender-differentiated policy awareness, cf. Mazey 2000) and feminist theory (emphasizing diversity as a socio-cultural construction of sex without over-fetishizing immanent equalities and differences between men and women, cf.…”