The institutional harvest: women’s services and women’s policy agencies

2013 ◽  
pp. 105-122
Keyword(s):  
Women's Policy Agencies

State Feminism and Political Representation

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-538
Author(s):  
Lois Harder
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
State Feminism ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Women's Policy Agencies

State Feminism and Political Representation, Joni Lovenduski, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. xix, 315.Lovenduski's edited volume is an 11-country (10 western European countries and the US), analysis of the effects of women's policy agencies on efforts to increase the representation of women in the political process—in legislatures, on party lists and in public administration. The book is the product of a 10-year collaboration among scholars involved in the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State and it exhibits the rich rewards that such a lengthy and involved affiliation among like-minded scholars can produce.

scholarly journals Between survival and relevance: remaking 30 years of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Simon-Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Women's Policy Agencies

Since its establishment in 1984 the Ministry of Women’s Affairs has had a controversial profile.1 What began as a feminist policy agency in the public sector discernibly transitioned, in the course of a decade, into a mainstream policy agency whose function is to focus on issues of relevance to women (Curtin and Teghtsoonian, 2010). The ministry’s distinctive location at the crossroads of policy and gender places it in a maelstrom of contradictory expectations; like other women’s policy agencies elsewhere in the world, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs has historically been caught between expectations from community to be its advocate, on the one hand, and requirements from the public sector to conform to the standards of new public management on the other.

Disparate Fates in Challenging Times: Women's Policy Agencies and Neoliberalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand and British Columbia

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Teghtsoonian
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Institutional Variables ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Women's Equality ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Women's Policy Agencies

Abstract. This article develops an explanation for the different approaches to existing women's policy agencies adopted by governments of the right elected to office in Aotearoa/New Zealand (in 1990) and in the province of British Columbia (in 2001). In Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Ministry of Women's Affairs remained structurally intact, while in British Columbia the Ministry of Women's Equality was eliminated and replaced with a women's policy agency that constitutes a small subunit within a much larger ministry. My analysis of these developments focuses on the impact of two institutional features of the women's ministries: (1) the nature of the activities in which they were involved and the different allocations of their budgetary resources that these activities entailed; and (2) the relationship between each ministry and community-based women's groups. I also explore the interaction between these institutional variables and the particular way in which a discourse of “special interests” has been expressed within the party of the right in each case.Résumé. Cet article développe une explication des différences d'attitude envers les agences chargées des politiques concernant les femmes entre les gouvernements de droite qui ont été élus à Aotearoa/Nouvelle-Zélande (en 1990), et en Colombie-Britannique (en 2001). À Aotearoa/Nouvelle-Zélande, la structure du ministère des Affaires des femmes est restée intacte, tandis qu'en Colombie-Britannique le ministère de l'Égalité des femmes a été éliminé et remplacé par une agence chargée des politiques concernant les femmes, qui n'est qu'une petite sous-unité d'un ministère beaucoup plus étendu. Mon analyse de ces développements porte sur l'impact de deux aspects institutionnels des ministères de la condition féminine: (1) le caractère de leurs activités et les différences correspondantes d'allocation de leurs ressources budgétaires; (2) le rapport entre chaque ministère et les groupes féministes des collectivités locales. En plus, j'explore l'interaction entre ces variables institutionnelles et la formation de l'argument d'“ intérêts particuliers ” avancé par le parti de droite dans chaque cas.

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