Specific subset of social relations uniting women and men as social groups in a particular community, including how power – and access to/control over resources – is distributed between the sexes.
… Expected result : Gender-competent police officers understand the gender dynamics of violence against women and are capable of … and practices are based on an understanding of how genderrelations and women’s inequality shape women’s and children’s …
… Gender impact assessment has been defined as an ex ante … between women and men. The central question of the gender impact assessment is: Does a law, policy or programme reduce, maintain or increase the gender inequalities between women and men? The European …
… As gender impact assessment is a tool for gender mainstreaming. Civil servants working for … needed to understand how gender roles and gender power relations work in society. Gender equality unit model The …
… proposals should be put forward that will promote gender equality in response to the existing situation. To do this, one should identify how gender equality could be strengthened in the different parts … initiative, taking into account the conclusions reached: Gender equality should be mentioned in the preamble of the …
… Commission deploys a variety of methods in its approach to gender mainstreaming. These methods span the whole policy … monitoring and evaluation. In the policy-definition phase, gender impact assessment is integrated within the European … system . Indeed, the Commission does not perform gender impact assessments as a separate, standalone exercise. …
… weaknesses Model There is no legal obligation to conduct gender impact assessments in Finland. Yet, the Act on … Equality between Women and Men (1986/609) includes a broad gender mainstreaming obligation for public officials, which has been interpreted as the legal basis for gender impact assessment implementation by the central gender …
… Actors involved Guidelines Strenghts and weaknesses Model Gender impact assessment is a relatively common instrument to support gender-mainstreaming implementation in Sweden. It appears to … to the national level. At the level of government offices, gender impact assessments are most regularly performed when …
… Actors involved Guidelines Strenghts and weaknesses Model Gender impact assessment was established in Lower Saxony in 2004, in the framework of gender-mainstreaming work. As a consequence, draft cabinet … and other legal acts and regulations have to perform a gender impact assessment, as set out in the Joint Rules of …