gender mainstreaming

noun

gender mainstreaming

noun

Etymology Proposed at the third UN World Conference on Women, held in 1985.

1

A public policy concept to achieve gender equality.

In Vienna, they implemented gender mainstreaming by putting a picture of a long-haired woman wearing boots on emergency exit signs. Previously, it was a man.2013 September 9, Les Roopanarine, “Development jargon decoded: gender mainstreaming”, in The Guardian:

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