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Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming

Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming. Session Content. gender equality Gender mainstreaming Best practices. WHAT IS GENDER? . SEX BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS. GENDER CONSTRUCTED ROLES AND RELATIONS Social Cultural Traditional Power relations…. WHAT?. Education. Ethnicity.

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Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming

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  1. Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming

  2. Session Content • gender equality • Gender mainstreaming • Best practices

  3. WHAT IS GENDER? SEX • BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS GENDER • CONSTRUCTED ROLES AND RELATIONS • Social • Cultural • Traditional • Power relations…

  4. WHAT? Education Ethnicity Religion, beliefs Gender Health condition Age Socio economic status

  5. Phase “Women in Development” (WID)... WID Sensitive to women’s issues In projects and activities

  6. Phase “Gender and Development”... Sensitive to problems link to women and men In projects and acitivities

  7. Phase “Gender Mainstreaming…Sustainable Sensitive and responsive to women and men In projects and activities

  8. Gender Mainstreaming • Giving equal opportunities and rights to men and women • Transforming systemic inequalities in legislation, policies, programmes, etc into equal and just structures.

  9. Employment: quantity and quality International labour standards - rights at work Gender Mainstreaming Social protection OSH Social Dialogue ILO’s Four Sectors • How is gender integrated in these sectors: • Policy level • Bureau for Gender Equality,GenProm

  10. Gender Mainstreaming in the ILO 1 • Policy on Gender Equality and Mainstreaming • Two-pronged approach toward promoting gender equality • all policies, programmes and activities aim to systematically and formally address the specific and often different concerns of both women and men; • Second, targeted interventions - based on analysis.

  11. Gender Mainstreaming in the ILO 2 • Action Plan on Gender Mainstreaming: five main elements to rationalize gender mainstreaming are: strengthen institutional arrangements; • introduce accountability and monitoring mechanisms; • allocate adequate resources for gender mainstreaming; • improve and increase staff's competence on gender; • and improve the balance between women and men among staff at all levels. • In addition to the ILO-wide policy and action plan, all five ILO regional offices have developed policy statements and strategies.

  12. Gender Mainstreaming in the ILO 3 • Implementation and Measuring Progress • Sets three indicators to measure progress of ILO Constituents in taking positive action to increase gender equality in the world of work; • The first indicator focuses on ratification by member States, and application of, the four key ILO equality Conventions; • The second measures Constituents' introduction of positive changes in their policies, legislation, programmes or institutions aimed at bringing about significant improvements in equality between women and men in the world of work; • The third indicator measures women's participation in ILO events and governing institutions; Another strategy is providing specific tools • Participatory Gender Audits

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