TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender sensitive parliaments and the legislative cycle
T2 - conceptualising new cultures and practices
AU - Palmieri, Sonia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - As an emergent international norm, gender sensitive parliaments offer parliamentarians and parliamentary staff a new lens through which to consider all aspects of their institutional culture and work practices. In this article, I consider the origins, application and remaining gaps in one particular aspect of gender sensitive parliaments: gender mainstreaming legislation across its entire ‘life cycle’. I begin with a reminder of the international mandates for gender sensitive legislation (GSL), acknowledging a historical emphasis on the responsibility of political institutions to ensure legislation, policy and programmes address–rather than exacerbate–gender inequality. I then assess the tools that have been developed over the past 20 years to support GSL and discuss enduring limitations in its implementation, relating to political will, the collection and analysis of quality data, and inadequate parliamentary opportunities and mechanisms for gender sensitive scrutiny.
AB - As an emergent international norm, gender sensitive parliaments offer parliamentarians and parliamentary staff a new lens through which to consider all aspects of their institutional culture and work practices. In this article, I consider the origins, application and remaining gaps in one particular aspect of gender sensitive parliaments: gender mainstreaming legislation across its entire ‘life cycle’. I begin with a reminder of the international mandates for gender sensitive legislation (GSL), acknowledging a historical emphasis on the responsibility of political institutions to ensure legislation, policy and programmes address–rather than exacerbate–gender inequality. I then assess the tools that have been developed over the past 20 years to support GSL and discuss enduring limitations in its implementation, relating to political will, the collection and analysis of quality data, and inadequate parliamentary opportunities and mechanisms for gender sensitive scrutiny.
KW - Gender sensitive
KW - international norms
KW - legislation
KW - political culture
KW - technical implementation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85142629911&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/20508840.2022.2147760
DO - 10.1080/20508840.2022.2147760
M3 - Article
SN - 2050-8840
VL - 10
SP - 234
EP - 248
JO - Theory and Practice of Legislation
JF - Theory and Practice of Legislation
IS - 3
ER -