Gender mainstreaming requires training

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Gender mainstreaming requires training

• Gender mainstreaming
• ? strategy for change to achieve
  gender equality
• Gender training
• ? transformative
• ? deeply political (resistances)
• ? highly contextual

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Contextualising gender training

• ?Gender machinery (internal/external) existence
  of loci designated to care for gender (or
  gender) equality policies
• ?Other influential voices other political actors
  like NGOs or other segments of civil society, or
  political parties, unions and similar
  organisations, think tanks

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Contextualising gender training (2)

• ?Equality climate socio-cultural climate (media,
  science and culture) and institutional climate.
• ?Gender mainstreaming history past gender
  mainstreaming efforts, or diversity management
  activities, or variations of both, and what
  status such activities were given in the overall
  political framework.

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Contextualising gender training (3)

• ?Gender expertise level of available gender
  expertise.
• ? Gender data availability of gender data

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Integrating gender in research projects
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Gender in research content

• Research Idea Phase (checklist)
• ?If the research involves humans as research
  objects, has the relevance of gender to the
  research topic been analysed?
• ?If the research does not directly involve
  humans, are the possibly differentiated relations
  of men and women to the research subject
  sufficiently clear?

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Gender in research content (2)

• Research Idea Phase (checklist)
• ?Have you reviewed literature and other sources
  relating to gender differences in the research
  field?
• www.yellowwindow.com/genderinresearch

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Why gender matters in (research) projects

• ? Better projects quality - utility
• ? Better policies
• ? Accountability