Gender mainstreaming

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Gender mainstreaming is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels.

The concept of gender mainstreaming occurred on 1985 Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi. The idea has been being developed in the UN development community^[1]. The idea was formally featured in 1995 on the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Most definitions conform to the UN Economic and Social Council formally defined the concept^[2]:

Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women's as well as men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ United Nations. Report of the Economic and Social Council for 1997. A/52/3.18 September 1997, at 28

[edit] See also

• History of feminism