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Gender and Governance : Concepts and Contexts Watson, Peggy, (1996) in Monica Threfall ed., Mapping the Women’s Movement, Feminist Politics and Social Transformation in the North, London: Verso Books, p. 5. Waylen, Georgia (1994) “Women and Democratization: Conceptualizing Gender Relations in Transition Politics,” World Politics, v. 46 no. 3 April. 58
The Impact of Gender Inequality on Governance THE IMPACT OF GENDER INEQUALITY ON GOVERNANCE Yasmin Tambiah * I. Introduction Acknowledging “gender” and its implications appears to have become formulaic in policy articulation and execution pertaining to a range of political, social and economic issues at local, regional and global levels. These include the arenas of governance and politics. 1 International and inter-governmental bodies concerned with governance have increasingly been compelled to address gender inequities in their various programmes and operations, and not confine such discussions only within bodies expressly dedicated to addressing gender concerns. In turn, individual states have been challenged to consider the views and needs of female citizens. However, activists, researchers and policy makers sensitive to the operations of various matrices of power, especially regarding gender, continue to point out that several issues pertaining to women and to the trajectories of gendered notions of power are still addressed only nominally in processes of governance. Further, in reality such issues tend to be either sidelined altogether, or mobilised to suit the particular interests of a ruling elite or * The author is grateful to the UNDP team, including Kalyani Menon-Sen and to the colleagues in the six teams of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) project on women and governance in South Asia, namely Ain O Salish Kendra, Asmita Resource Centre for Women, Ekatra, ICES, Shirkat Gah and Shtrii Shakti. 1 Unless otherwise noted, the UNDP definition of governance is utilised in this paper as a working definition. “Governance [is] the exercise of political, economic and administrative authority to manage a country’s affairs. It comprises the mechanisms, processes and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations and mediate their differences.” (UNDP, 2000). 59
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