Gender Mainstreaming: Principles and Practices

This assignment delves into the concept of gender mainstreaming, outlining its key principles such as equal access to services, integrated steering treatments, and women's participation in decision-making. It analyzes how these principles are applied in practice, highlighting challenges and advocating for a shift towards recognizing individuals based on their talents and skills rather than gender.

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Gender Mainstreaming Definitions and Principles Forum
The gender mainstreaming involves at least two of the different forms of frame of referencing, of
which one is the stance for the gender equality and the other part is the mainstream of gender.
Therefore, it is evident that mainstreaming of gender is inevitable and it is very essential for the
contested form of process.
Despite all the intrinsic form of the conflicts, there are usual forms of moves within the
mainstreaming of gender that generally focus on those areas where there might be any form of
commonality with the mainstream. The practices within the gender mainstreaming are one of the
points that can overlap the agendas for the equality of the gender and recognising all the
differences in the overall forms agendas that are seeking for prioritising the areas of the
commonalities as it is a step towards the right form of the direction.
In the policy practices for the duality that exists between the equality of the gender and the
mainstreaming it can sometimes happen that while expressing it as holding of the two forms of
the aims in a simultaneous manner. Firstly, the promotion of the equity of the gender and the
justice of gender acts as an end to its own rights. Secondly, the making the policies that are
comes under the mainstream in their own terms for the inclusion of the analysis of the gender.
One of the core feature that can be included in the definition of gender mainstreaming is the
normal practice of making visible the way of the relation of the gender that re been significant in
the institutional form of practice that has been seen as the irrelevant in order to facilitate the
implementation of the strategy for both the equality of the gender and the improvement of the
policies that re mainline.

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The mainstreaming of the gender forum ensures that the making of the policies and the
works of the legislations possess higher form of quality and have greater form of relevance in the
society (Alston, 2014). This is because it creates policies that respond very effectively to fulfil
the needs of all the citizens that may include both men and women. The gender mainstreaming is
made on the public form of the interventions that are effective and omits the inequalities that are
not perpetuated. The main aim of the gender mainstreaming is not only to avoid the creation of
the reinforcement of the inequalities that can affect both the gender, but it also aims to analyse
the existing situations that have the purpose to identify the inequalities and develop certain form
of policies that aims to address the inequalities and the mechanisms that have caused them.
There are various principles that are true for every gender that have the mainstreaming
activities that have the measures for implementation (Davids, Driel & Parren, 2014). The first
principle is known as the principle of gender sensitivity language. It refers to both men and
women and they take both the gender as equals. This approach has been applied among all the
forms, telephone directories, documents, media, internet, advertisement posters folders and films.
There has been accurate attention that has been paid to the choice of image that is sensitive to the
gender while preparing the materials for public relation.
The second principle is about the data collection and the analysis that are specific to the
gender of the individuals. This principle tells us about the various ways of the collecting and
analyzing the data that are presented by the gender. This also emphasizes on the statistics that
have their emphasis on the gender (Davids, Driel & Parren, 2014).

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The third principle enumerates the equal form of access and the utilization of the services. It
becomes very important that who have chosen the services and who are the clients. The target
groups should be mentioned and what are forms of problems that are faced by the target groups.
The fourth principle says that women and men both are equal and they both gets involved in the
process of decision-making. This phenomenon is highly important for appointing the groups who
are working in the project teams, advertising, commissions, media etc (Davids, Driel & Parren,
2014).
The last principle explains the treatments that are integrated in the process of steering. There
should be attention that are to given to both the gender for the enhancement of both the gender.
The forum gives various principles on the gender mainstreaming and the gender equity.
However, I feel that in the above case study the sportsperson was only analyzed as a
sportsperson immaterial to his/her gender. Therefore, it is very evident that in multinational
companies they have several problems for hiring women managers or pregnant women. The
capacities of the women are most of the times analyzed by her gender and not by her talents. In
any sphere of job there is some sort of barrier regarding gender of the women. However, in my
opinion, when the world will start to see the employee or any person by their talents and skills
and not by their gender, only then, the equity of gender will prevail.

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