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Strategies of Feminist Bureaucrats: United Nations Experiences

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Summary This paper explores the challenges and opportunities for feminists working as women's rights and gender equality specialists in the United Nations as analysed from a practitioner perspective. Part 1 by Joanne Sandler analyses the experience of feminists struggling with the institutional sexism of the UN bureaucratic machine and shows how this played out in the difficult but ultimately successful negotiations around the creation of UN Women. In Part 2, Aruna Rao describes how cross‐agency UN Gender Theme Groups worked together through a process of reflexive inquiry to strengthen the gender equality programming of three UN Country Teams, respectively in Morocco, Albania and Nepal.

Source: IDS Working Papers

DOI: 10.1111/j.2040-0209.2012.00397.x

Authors: Joanne Sandler, Aruna Rao, Rosalind Eyben

Institutions: The Graduate Center, CUNY, City University of New York, University of Sussex, Institute of Development Studies

Language: English

Topic: Gender Politics and Representation

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2074926019

FWCI: 2.338

Cites: 39

Cited by: 20

Related to: 10