Research Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming

Edited by Sophie Jacquot, Petra Ahrens, Serena D’Agostino, Sonia Palmieri and Gisela Zaremberg

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This comprehensive Research Handbook draws on interdisciplinary approaches to understand the integration of gender+ equality into policymaking worldwide. Leading international experts examine how gender mainstreaming has evolved, why it matters and where improvements can be made.

Keywords: Gender Mainstreaming; Feminist Policy Analysis; Equality Mainstreaming Strategies And Instruments; Gender-Sensitive Governance; Intersectionality In Public Policy; International Gender+ Equality Norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035353415
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: thirty years of gender mainstreaming – promises, limitations, and the future of equality

Petra Ahrens, Serena D’Agostino, Sophie Jacquot, Sonia Palmieri and Gisela Zaremberg

Ch 10 The design and implementation of gender mainstreaming: a complex story

Petra Meier and Lis Van Herck

Ch 11 Breaking barriers: integrating gender perspectives into monitoring, evaluation, and statistics for meaningful change

Thania de la Garza Navarrete and Liv Lafontaine Navarro

Ch 12 Gender budgeting as an effective policy and advocacy tool

Zorana Antonijević

Ch 13 Gender mainstreaming and legislation 30 years later: the impact of international action on gender mainstreaming on legislation and gender outcomes at national level

Maria Mousmouti

Ch 14 Gender training and gender expertise to support gender mainstreaming

Lut Mergaert and Marcela Linková

Ch 15 Gender mainstreaming in social policy

Elena Zacharenko and Merita Poni

Ch 16 Gender mainstreaming in international cooperation and development policy

Petra Debusscher

Ch 17 Women, food safety, and entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa

Erika Valerio, Valentina C. Materia, Tacko Ndiaye, Ilaria Sisto and Omnia Rizk

Ch 18 Gender mainstreaming in (feminist) foreign policy: a critical analysis on logics of coloniality

Miriam Mona Mukalazi and Fatim Selina Diaby

Ch 19 Mainstreaming gender to combat violence against women

Hana Hanifah and Jacqui True

Ch 2 Gender mainstreaming as a driver of feminist theory? From policy to theory

Fiona Beveridge

Ch 20 Gender mainstreaming in climate change policy

Gill Allwood and Mariola Acosta

Ch 21 Mainstreaming gender in research: between policy gains and political pushback

Marcela Linková and Lut Mergaert

Ch 22 Gender mainstreaming and health policy

Rachel Hammersley-Mather

Ch 23 Gender mainstreaming in migration policy

Jane Freedman

Ch 24 UN Women's mandate to coordinate gender mainstreaming in the UN system

Annalise Moser

Ch 25 The African Union: successes and challenges in translating commitment into implementation

Paula Tavares, Tsion Demissie Bergano and Namira Negm

Ch 26 Making waves in the Blue Pacific: gender mainstreaming in and through Pacific regional institutions

Tara Chetty, Josephine Kalsuak, Anita Afford and Margaret Fox

Ch 27 Latin America: regional and national challenges

Gisela Zaremberg

Ch 28 European integration as a gender mainstreaming strategy: the case of East-Central Europe

Barbara Gaweda

Ch 29 Gender mainstreaming in federalized Spain: developments and potential setbacks in the post-Beijing era

Alba Alonso and Julia Espinosa-Fajardo

Ch 3 Defining gender mainstreaming: a history of feminist thinking and action

Cinnamon Bennett

Ch 30 The (de)politicization of gender mainstreaming

Emanuela Lombardo and Rebecca Tildesley

Ch 31 The transformation of gender mainstreaming in times of illiberalism and de-democratization: the dismantling of gender equality policies in Hungary

Bianka Vida

Ch 32 Gender mainstreaming, populism and democratic backsliding: the case of Brexit

Emilia Belknap

Ch 33 Overcoming challenges to gender and equality mainstreaming: the promise of an intersectionality-informed framework in Sweden

Olena Hankivsky and Gemma Hunting

Ch 34 Decolonizing gender mainstreaming in ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ feminist activism

Ladan Rahbari

Ch 35 Allies or accomplices? Transforming masculinity in the fight for gender equality in the Pacific

Mercy Masta and Romitesh Kant

Ch 36 Rethinking gender mainstreaming in the context of anti-gender opposition in the EU: intersectional coalition politics and participatory democracy as the way forward

Lucrecia Rubio Grundell and Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira

Ch 4 Gender mainstreaming and feminist theory and praxis: an exercise in reflexivity

Heather MacRae and Cherry Miller

Ch 5 Gender mainstreaming and the state

Gwenaëlle Perrier

Ch 6 Social movement and gender mainstreaming: convergent or divergent?

Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá

Ch 7 Gender mainstreaming and public opinion: misuse, polarization and anti-gender equality views

Vera Lomazzi and Isabella Crespi

Ch 8 Gender equality machineries as critical actors in gender mainstreaming across the globe

Summer Forester and Amy G. Mazur

Ch 9 Gender mainstreaming in parliaments: rule efficacy in the European and Fijian parliaments

Petra Ahrens and Sonia Palmieri

Ch Spotlight 1 The Beijing Platform: the birth of gender mainstreaming as a feminist approach?

Nava San Miguel Abad

Ch Spotlight 10 On the energy transition and extractive industries

Rosalind Cavaghan

Ch Spotlight 11 The Gender Policy Council and mainstreaming in the United States

Ashley English

Ch Spotlight 12 Gender mainstreaming at the local level

Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović

Ch Spotlight 13 Gender mainstreaming and human rights

Joanna Bourke Martignoni

Ch Spotlight 14 Temporal sensitivity in gender mainstreaming

Zorica Siročić

Ch Spotlight 15 Towards inclusive recovery policies: mainstreaming gender and intersectionality in pandemic policymaking

María López Belloso and Sofia Strid

Ch Spotlight 16 The critical role of Romani feminism in decolonizing gender mainstreaming

Aldessa Georgiana Lincan

Ch Spotlight 2 The rapid diffusion of gender mainstreaming

Hana Hanifah and Jacqui True

Ch Spotlight 3 Gender mainstreaming as a buzzword: the ups and downs of a concept

Alison E. Woodward

Ch Spotlight 4 Gender mainstreaming as democratic innovation

Paloma Caravantes and Emanuela Lombardo

Ch Spotlight 5 Femocrats and gender mainstreaming: catalysts for gender equality in Brazil

Simone Bohn

Ch Spotlight 6 Gender mainstreaming in high courts

Alba Ruibal

Ch Spotlight 7 Illuminating inequalities and transforming policy through gender impact assessment

Hannah Johnson

Ch Spotlight 8 Gender mainstreaming and space policy

Elise Stephenson

Ch Spotlight 9 Gender equality in an algorithmic society: re-engineering gender mainstreaming as a legal principle for fair AI

Raphaële Xenidis and Birte Böök

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