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Femocrats and ecorats
Sawer, Marian
Sawer, Marian
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"To take a relatively simple example of gender-specific effects of purportedly gender-neutral policy, of the kind the new women s machinery was intended to highlight: a proposal might be made to effect savings in public transport by cutting back on services other than the most profitable peak commuter routes. The relevant women s unit would draw attention to the disparate impact of such a proposal on women, who characteristically have less access to private transport than men and are more likely to need public transport for purposes other than the journey to work. Similarly, a proposal to introduce time charging for local telephone calls could readily be shown to have a disproportionate impact on women, who make fewer purely instrumental calls and spend more time on the telephone as part of their invisible welfare work in sustaining kinship and other networks. This paper looks at how such machinery came into existence in, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, three countries which are generally rated highly in terms of gender equity. It raises issues concerning the location of such machinery and the trade-offs involved in the brokering of feminist policy insights within a bureaucratic environment. It also looks at how women s policy machinery relates to other forms of institutionalization of the women s movement to what extent such machinery assists in resourcing the women s movement and in so doing creates an effective political base for feminist policy (cf. Stetson and Mazur, 1995)."(pg 1)
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1996-03
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