Contents

Figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

List of abbreviations

Introduction - Shirin M. Rai

Part I Conceptual frameworks

1 Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women: mainstreaming gender, democratizing the state? - Shirin M. Rai

2 Gender mainstreaming: conceptual links to institutional machineries - Kathleen Staudt

Part II Comparative analyses

3 National women’s machinery: state-based institutions to advocate for gender equality - Anne Marie Goetz

4 National women’s machineries: structures and spaces - Nüket Kardam and Selma Acuner

Part III Case studies

5 The role of the women’s movement in institutionalizing a gender focus in public policy: the Ecuadorian experience - Silvia Vega Ugalde

6 The National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women, the women’s movement and gender mainstreaming in the Philippines - Jurgette Honculada and Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo

7 National machinery for gender equality in Sweden and other Nordic countries - Birgitta Aseskog

8 Gender awareness and the national machineries in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe - Zuzana Jezerska

9 The government of the United Kingdom: the Women’s National Commission - Wendy Stokes

10 The national machinery for gender equality in Uganda: institutionalized gesture politics? - Joy C. Kwesiga

11 The National Commission for Women: the Indian experience - Shirin M. Rai

12 The life and times of women’s policy machinery in Australia - Marian Sawer

Conclusions: looking forward - Shirin M. Rai

Bibliography

Index