Negotiating gender equality in development organizations:The role of agency in the institutionalization of new norms and practices

Fenella Porter

Progress in Development Studies, 2012, vol. 12, issue 4, 301-314

Abstract: This article considers how, in the context of development, the negotiation of meanings and individual values can create a crucial link between an awareness of gender relations and actual changes in the norms and practices of an organization. I use the concept of institutional agency to question whether as gendered individuals, development practitioners can challenge how development organizations go about their work? Or whether we are all trapped in a ‘meta structure’ of norms, practices and meanings that ultimately block both our own agency and the changes we are trying to bring about?

Keywords: development; gender equality; agency; NGOs; power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/146499341201200403

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