L'art pour l'art?: gender mainstreaming in België
- Author
- Petra Meier and Karen Celis (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- From the outset, there were high expectations about gender mainstreaming and the possibilities it raised for achieving gender equality. A decade after the introduction of gender mainstreaming, scepticism about gender mainstreaming as an effective policy strategy for gender equality is vast. Analyzing several operationalizations of gender mainstreaming at the respective policy levels in Belgium, the article focuses on the basic assumptions of the concept regarding policy as intentional and rational in process and outcome in explaining why in practice gender mainstreaming often turns into a formalistic exercise of measuring, monitoring and evaluating. The argument of the paper is that the lack of a definition of the aim of gender mainstreaming (i.e. gender equality) combined with its focus on implementing procedures in assumed rational policy processes, allows for gender mainstreaming to be watered down to a formalistic exercise of creating specific output using gender mainstreaming instruments whereby losing sight of substantive outcome in terms of enhancing gender equality.
- Keywords
- gender mainstreaming, Belgium, equal opportunity policy
Citation
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-901459
- MLA
- Meier, Petra, and Karen Celis. “L’art Pour l’art?: Gender Mainstreaming in België.” TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENDERSTUDIES, vol. 12, no. 3, 2009, pp. 5–18.
- APA
- Meier, P., & Celis, K. (2009). L’art pour l’art?: gender mainstreaming in België. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENDERSTUDIES, 12(3), 5–18.
- Chicago author-date
- Meier, Petra, and Karen Celis. 2009. “L’art Pour l’art?: Gender Mainstreaming in België.” TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENDERSTUDIES 12 (3): 5–18.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Meier, Petra, and Karen Celis. 2009. “L’art Pour l’art?: Gender Mainstreaming in België.” TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENDERSTUDIES 12 (3): 5–18.
- Vancouver
- 1.Meier P, Celis K. L’art pour l’art?: gender mainstreaming in België. TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENDERSTUDIES. 2009;12(3):5–18.
- IEEE
- [1]P. Meier and K. Celis, “L’art pour l’art?: gender mainstreaming in België,” TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENDERSTUDIES, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 5–18, 2009.
@article{901459,
abstract = {{From the outset, there were high expectations about gender mainstreaming and the possibilities it raised for achieving gender equality. A decade after the introduction of gender mainstreaming, scepticism about gender mainstreaming as an effective policy strategy for gender equality is vast. Analyzing several operationalizations of gender mainstreaming at the respective policy levels in Belgium, the article focuses on the basic assumptions of the concept regarding policy as intentional and rational in process and outcome in explaining why in practice gender mainstreaming often turns into a formalistic exercise of measuring, monitoring and evaluating. The argument of the paper is that the lack of a definition of the aim of gender mainstreaming (i.e. gender equality) combined with its focus on implementing procedures in assumed rational policy processes, allows for gender mainstreaming to be watered down to a formalistic exercise of creating specific output using gender mainstreaming instruments whereby losing sight of substantive outcome in terms of enhancing gender equality.}},
author = {{Meier, Petra and Celis, Karen}},
issn = {{1388-3186}},
journal = {{TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR GENDERSTUDIES}},
keywords = {{gender mainstreaming,Belgium,equal opportunity policy}},
language = {{dut}},
number = {{3}},
pages = {{5--18}},
title = {{L'art pour l'art?: gender mainstreaming in België}},
volume = {{12}},
year = {{2009}},
}