International Organizations and Gender: New Paradigms and Old Habits

Signs ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 633-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Bessis
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals The Socio-Political Construction of Climate Change: Looking for Paths to Sustainability and Gender Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ericka Fosado Centeno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Environmental Relations

With the purpose of getting to know the cultural and socio-political mechanisms that shape the climate agenda, this study follows a discourse analysis method and a gender perspective, for which an analytical basis is proposed to identify the cognitive, normative, and symbolic components that give meaning and substance to climate policy. Examining the productions of international organizations responsible for generating climate policy, a corpus consisting of 47 documents (reports, communications, programs, and legal framework) was analyzed, spanning from 1994 to 2015, to identify the trend of climate agenda prior to the Paris Agreement. The results indicate that the terms in which climate change is placed as a public issue contribute to reproducing a social order based on an anthropocentric, utilitarian, virtualized, and mercantilist vision of socio-environmental relations. Control mechanisms of peripheral countries and groups whose rights have been breached by discriminatory practices can emerge in this process, with women being especially affected. Based on empirical findings that follow the first two decades of climate policy, the logic underlying the climate discourse is shown, and the challenges it poses to reach more fair and sustainable agreements are discussed. Finally, some proposals are outlined to help guide the climate agenda in that direction.

Gender, international relations and the case of the ILO

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Whitworth
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
State Building ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Much of the work that has been done by feminist International Relations (IR) theorists thus far has been to critique the existing discipline for its obvious inattention to questions of women and gender. It is time now to turn to more substantive work and explore not only the ways in which gender is absent from the study of international relations, but to document also the ways in which gender informs the various institutions and practices of international relations. To this end, feminist analyses of political economy, militarism, state-building, diplomacy and so on have begun to emerge. The present study is part of this project and seeks to develop an account of gender and international organizations and then apply it to an illustrative study of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

scholarly journals Nationality versus Gender? The Administrative Politics of Gender Parity in the United Nations and the Implementation of SCR1325

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Davies
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Peace Operations ◽  
Gender Parity ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This article will shed light on an under-researched aspect of the implementation of gender policies in the UN Secretariat—the administrative and budgetary committees that establish the staff regulations for civilian personnel. The article will explore how the politics of UN recruitment invokes two primary identities—nationality and gender—and how these conflict with each other. Using demographic analysis of UN civilian staff in peace operations and a micro-case study of an ongoing attempt by the Secretary-General to change the staff rules and regulations to introduce a form of affirmative action to reach gender parity, this article finds that efforts to achieve the representative provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, including through gender parity of civilians in peace operations, are hampered by the primacy of national identity in international organizations as well as by the highly politicized and nation state-driven process of administrative and budgetary decision-making. By focusing on the inner dynamics of decision-making in the United Nations, the article contributes to the literature on international organizations and gender by demonstrating how normative goals can be undermined by competition among member states over internal administrative processes arising from complex principal–agent relationships.

Initiation as a Factor and the Way of Social and Gender Identitfication

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Natalia Ksenofontova ◽  
Nina Grishina
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Gender Identification ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
And Gender

The article is devoted to the consideration of one of the most important institutions of traditional society – the initiatives that scientists refer to the so-called rites of passage of boys and girls in the age class of men and women. The authors show on numerous examples of different African ethnic groups that initiations are a significant cultural phenomenon as a factor and a way of social and gender identification. Despite the fact that this custom on the continent is observed in some tribes and peoples still, while maintaining its cultural and social significance, it has many opponents not only among feminists, but also representatives of the official authorities and politicians. The article provides statistical data on the spread of this ritual in various countries of modern Africa and analyzes the documents of governments and international organizations designed to combat this archaic phenomenon.

Women, Peace and Security in Ukraine

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-84
Author(s):  
Eugenia Benigni
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Women Leaders ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Grassroots Groups ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
Ukrainian Crisis ◽  
And Gender

Since the Maidan protests in late 2013, women have played crucial roles in all sectors in the conflict in Ukraine: politics, civil society, reconciliation efforts, and armed fighting. The conflict has offered new challenges and opportunities for their emancipation, influence, and empowerment, but also for growing violations of their human rights. Despite their activism, women and gender issues remain underrepresented in the Minsk process for the resolution of the conflict, despite ongoing efforts by international organizations and pressure from civil society. International and national support for women’s participation in dialogue and cooperation has increased, but needs to be sustained and expanded to new grassroots groups and women leaders for more visible impact. The article reflects the author’s personal observations on how women’s roles have evolved in the Ukrainian crisis by drawing on her field experience, meetings, interviews, and reports by international and national organizations.

scholarly journals Do international institutions matter? Socialization and international bureaucrats

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 852-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Murdoch ◽  
Hussein Kassim ◽  
Sara Connolly ◽  
Benny Geys
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
And Gender ◽  
International Socialization ◽  
Constructivist Approaches ◽  
Over Time

A key component of (neo-)functionalist and constructivist approaches to the study of international organizations concerns staff socialization. Existing analyses of how, or indeed whether, staff develop more pro-internationalist attitudes over time draw predominantly on cross-sectional data. Yet, such data cannot address (self-)selection issues or capture the inherently temporal nature of attitude change. This article proposes an innovative approach to the study of international socialization using an explicitly longitudinal design. Analysing two waves of a large-scale survey conducted within the European Commission in 2008 and 2014, it examines the beliefs and values of the same individuals over time and exploits exogenous organizational changes to identify causal effects. Furthermore, the article theorizes and assesses specified scope conditions affecting socialization processes. Showing that international institutions do, in fact, influence value acquisition by individual bureaucrats, our results contest the widely held view that international organizations are not a socializing environment. Our analysis also demonstrates that age at entry and gender significantly affect the intensity of such value change.

Women and Security - Contemporary Approaches And Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-20
Author(s):  
Liliana Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
State Security ◽  
Is Security ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Istanbul Convention

The article discusses the contrasts between the traditional conception of security and feminist viewpoints on the issue. It presents the traditional realist viewpoint on security and discusses the representation of women in state security structures as well as their representation in international organizations. It briefly presents feminist criticisms of liberal origin concerning the lack of equal participation and representation in these power structures that affect everyone regardless of gender. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the discussion of the important issues raised by feminist perspectives on security and the specificity of feminist security studies. The widening of the security studies area is portrayed, as present in these writings: the overvaluation of the importance of state structures, in which women are underrepresented; the importance of expanding ‘security from the area of the state and applying it to communities; the decentering of dominant modes of knowledge (the “normal”); the inclusion of femininities, masculinities, and gender is security analyses; the importance of issues like #metoo international movement and the withdrawal of states in our region, East, South East and Central Europe, from the Istanbul Convention. The article concludes by asserting the importance of enhancing women solidarity in this region, including here the development of feminist security studies by applying it to common transborder issues.

Energy Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 753-774
Author(s):  
Kathleen J. Hancock ◽  
Juliann Emmons Allison
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Conflict And Cooperation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Energy Politics ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Extensive Body ◽  
And Gender

The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics highlights the wide variety of literature, primarily by political scientists and international relations scholars, summarizing and analyzing research that intersects politics and energy issues, and provides an extensive and comprehensive set of research agendas. These chapters cover domestic politics of major energy producers and consumers as well as a variety of concepts and frameworks used in the social sciences, such as international organizations, regionalism, interdependence, justice, conflict and cooperation, and gender. Drawing on the preceding thirty chapters, this concluding chapter brings together common strands of the critical analyses and overlapping research agendas provided by the Handbook’s authors. While the Handbook documents an extensive body of research on energy politics, more theorizing, comparative analyses, generalizations, and diverse methodologies are needed.

scholarly journals Learning Ecological Concepts in Secondary Schools of the Northeast of Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meritxell Notari Llorens ◽  
Francisco Pardo Fabregat ◽  
Africa Martinez-Poveda ◽  
Manuel Jordan Vidal
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Ecological Concepts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Location Type ◽  
Type Of School

Ecological concepts are not a recent matter; international organizations have already increased their efforts to provide better environmental education and ecological consciousness, although despite these efforts, a lack of attitudes and concepts were detected in the northeast of Spain. We evaluated the acquisition of concepts related to environmental education in the students as proposed by current legislation, as well as their relation to different parameters, such as geographical location, type of school, and gender. The result suggests that the students achieve a meaningful learning of the concepts proposed by legislation and that acquisition of this knowledge is related to gender and geographical location, but not to the type of secondary school.

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