gender mainstreaming

See also: Gendermainstreaming and Gender-Mainstreaming

English

Etymology

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

Noun

gender mainstreaming (uncountable)

1. A public policy concept to achieve gender equality.
   • 2013 September 9, Les Roopanarine, “Development jargon decoded: gender mainstreaming”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Further reading

• gender mainstreaming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia