Governance in the Field of Public and Gender Policies

  1. Morales, María Sandra Marrero 2
  2. Domínguez, Yolanda Márquez 1
  3. Martín, Lara Pérez 1
  4. Pérez-Jorge, David 1
  5. de la Rosa Hormiga, Milagros 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01r9z8p25

  2. 2 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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    Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01teme464

Revista:
Sociology Mind

ISSN: 2160-083X,  2160-0848

Año de publicación: 2015

Volumen: 05

Número: 03

Páginas: 153-161

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.4236/SM.2015.53014 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Sociology Mind

Resumen

Governance is a modern procedure in the task of governing which is performed through dialogue,negotiation and elucidation of goals, strengthened by an effective political communication with thedifferent actors involved, who come from public or private sectors or from civil society, positioning themselves in the development process of public policy. As Bassols (Bassols, 2011: p. 16) states,“it is a technique of power that is related to the act of affecting and being affected, if we think of itas a Faucaultian version”. Therefore, governance processes should be regarded as a means towardssocial transformation and, in particular, towards the transformation of social systems of genderroles. This form of democratic governance would be expressed through institutional changes or, inother words, through changes of the rules and regulations which organize the relationships amongthe different actors or partners in different settings, especially those relationships between the stateand civil society, and those established among the state, market and family. In this sense, changeswould open up new opportunities to transform gender roles assessing the implications of publicpolicies for both men and women. This would include legislation and policies in all areas and levels. Therefore, the fact of introducing an approach based on gender in the processes of governanceappears to be a strategy to integrate topics of interest and experiences of women and men as anintegral dimension of the design, implementation and evaluation of policies in the political, economic and social sphere, to benefit both men and women. Thus, inequality is not perpetuated.

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