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gender blindness

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Failure to recognise that the roles and responsibilities of women/girls and men/boys are ascribed to, or imposed upon, them in specific social, cultural, economic and political contexts.

 

Additional notes and information

Sources

United Nations Statistics Division – UNSD. Global Gender Statistics Programme. Available at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/genderstatmanual/Glossary.ashx

 

Relations

Related term:
equal access to justice for women and men, gender analysis, gender sensitivity, gender-neutral, gender-neutral policies
URI: 
https://eige.europa.eu/taxonomy/term/1157
Filed under: 
Governance
Law and justice
Governance
Politics and policy-making

 

The concepts and definitions found in this glossary were published in 2016, and some may be out-of-date. EIGE is currently looking into which terms may need to be updated in the future.