Yen-Wen Peng
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447308300
- eISBN:
- 9781447311522
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447308300.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Gender mainstreaming has become a popular innovation to promote gender equality among cross-national governments. It creates initiatives and tools for feminists and women’s movement activists to ...
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Gender mainstreaming has become a popular innovation to promote gender equality among cross-national governments. It creates initiatives and tools for feminists and women’s movement activists to participate and collaborate with governmental bureaucrats in the policy making processes. Since 2008, all legislation and mid- or long-term policies and programs in Taiwan are required to conduct Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) at the planning stage, to assess their different implications for women and men. This initiative is seen by some feminists as a direct channel to engage and influence the bureaucrats as well as the policies. Yet there is worry about feminists being co-opted by the neoliberal technocratic state. This chapter reviews the experiences of implementing GIA in Taiwan and addresses the above-mentioned concerns. The author summarizes five problems found in the current practice of GIA, and further reflects the pitfalls of this novel participatory approach to launch governmental reforms given the managerialist framework. The paper concludes by emphasizing the crucial role of oppositional women’s movements.Less
Gender mainstreaming has become a popular innovation to promote gender equality among cross-national governments. It creates initiatives and tools for feminists and women’s movement activists to participate and collaborate with governmental bureaucrats in the policy making processes. Since 2008, all legislation and mid- or long-term policies and programs in Taiwan are required to conduct Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) at the planning stage, to assess their different implications for women and men. This initiative is seen by some feminists as a direct channel to engage and influence the bureaucrats as well as the policies. Yet there is worry about feminists being co-opted by the neoliberal technocratic state. This chapter reviews the experiences of implementing GIA in Taiwan and addresses the above-mentioned concerns. The author summarizes five problems found in the current practice of GIA, and further reflects the pitfalls of this novel participatory approach to launch governmental reforms given the managerialist framework. The paper concludes by emphasizing the crucial role of oppositional women’s movements.
Fida Adely
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226006901
- eISBN:
- 9780226006925
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226006925.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by ...
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In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. The resulting demographic picture there—highly educated women who still largely stay at home as mothers and caregivers—prompted the World Bank to label Jordan a “gender paradox.” This book shows that assessment to be a fallacy, taking readers into the rarely seen halls of a Jordanian public school, the al-Khatwa High School for Girls, and revealing the dynamic lives of its students, for whom such trends are far from paradoxical. Through the lives of these students, the book explores the critical issues young people in Jordan grapple with today: nationalism and national identity, faith and the requisites of pious living, appropriate and respectable gender roles, and progress. In the process, the book shows the important place of education in Jordan, one less tied to the economic ends of labor and employment that are so emphasized by the rest of the developed world. In showcasing alternative values and the highly capable young women who hold them, it raises fundamental questions about what constitutes development, progress, and empowerment not just for Jordanians, but for the whole world.Less
In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. The resulting demographic picture there—highly educated women who still largely stay at home as mothers and caregivers—prompted the World Bank to label Jordan a “gender paradox.” This book shows that assessment to be a fallacy, taking readers into the rarely seen halls of a Jordanian public school, the al-Khatwa High School for Girls, and revealing the dynamic lives of its students, for whom such trends are far from paradoxical. Through the lives of these students, the book explores the critical issues young people in Jordan grapple with today: nationalism and national identity, faith and the requisites of pious living, appropriate and respectable gender roles, and progress. In the process, the book shows the important place of education in Jordan, one less tied to the economic ends of labor and employment that are so emphasized by the rest of the developed world. In showcasing alternative values and the highly capable young women who hold them, it raises fundamental questions about what constitutes development, progress, and empowerment not just for Jordanians, but for the whole world.
