Implementeringen av jämställdhetsintegrering i EU - En studie om problem i implementeringen av strategin och förutsättningar för ett effektivt genomförande med fokus på perspektiven top-down, bottom-up och genus
ImplementationGender mainstreamingTop-down and bottom-upExpert bureaucratic and participative democraticGenderEuropean UnionPolitical and administrative sciencesStatsvetenskapFörvaltningskunskapLaw and Political Science
This essay focuses on the implementation of the strategy gender mainstreaming in the European Union and the member states. It starts to identify problems connected to the implementation process and recognizes significant prerequisites for an efficient implementation of the strategy. The main problems and prerequisites are: political will, governance and structure and knowledge about gender equality. The empirical material consists of reports from the EU that touches upon gender mainstreaming and gender equality. The problems and prerequisites will be analysed in relation to the governance perspectives top-down and bottom-up and expert bureaucratic and participative democratic and gender and feminism. The study also reflects on the context of EU. The main purpose is to examine how these perspectives and these concepts understand the problems and prerequisites and to study how they shape the implementation. The essay believes in a synthesis between the governance perspectives but argues for a stronger bottom-up and participative-democratic-perspective since they show a lot of similarities with feminism. In light of the problems it believes in a more open and inclusive political system that invites the civil society to participate in the policy process. It also points to the importance of understanding gender mainstreaming as a particular policy with particular problems. To summarize it says that these components together can lead to an efficient implementation of gender mainstreaming.