Mainstreaming gender to combat violence against women

Hana Hanifah and Jacqui True

Chapter 19 in Research Handbook on Gender Mainstreaming, 2026, pp 250-261 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Violence against women (VAW) involves a range of harms, including physical, sexual, psychological, and economic harm, and femicide. It is a public security issue that spans multiple seemingly ‘gender-neutral’ policy sectors, including health, justice, social welfare, and foreign policy. Mainstreaming gender is vital for coordinated, cross-sectoral responses to eliminate VAW. This chapter examines how gender mainstreaming influences VAW policy adoption and implementation. It consists of three parts. First, we discuss the importance of gender mainstreaming in addressing VAW as a public security issue. Second, we assess the success and gaps in VAW policy implementation. Third, we ascertain the extent of gender mainstreaming's policy influence in transforming the institutional approach to eliminate VAW with evidence from Indonesia. Our analysis highlights the relevance of gender mainstreaming in public security in non-Western and Western policymaking, and redresses the disproportionate focus on Western developed countries and international development organisations in existing scholarship on gender mainstreaming.

Keywords: Violence Against Women; Gender Mainstreaming; Public Security; Policy Implementation; Indonesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035353415
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