Integrating the gender perspective in the Urban Agenda for the European Union. State of the art and upcoming challenges
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https://doi.org/10.6092/2281-4574/5065Keywords:
Gender, Gender Mainstreaming, Urban Policy of the EU, Urban Agenda for the European Union, Pact of AmsterdamAbstract
The European Union (EU) adopted gender mainstreaming in the Treaty of Amsterdam as the strategy to reach equality between women and men. The mandate of the Treaty and subsequent legislation has led to the implementation of this vision in some of the policy areas, while others have just begun to introduce this approach.Research work developed by the author of this article has identified that the urban policy of the EU has not integrated the gender perspective in the terms expressed by the Treaty in the policy documents launched until 2013(De Gregorio, 2014 and 2017). This article presents the continuation of that study, focusing on the construction process of the Urban Agenda for the European Union from 2013, with the objective of understanding if it has introduced factors of transformation concerning the gender approach assumed in the new policy documents, and particularly in the Pact of Amsterdam (programmatic framework of the Urban Agenda).
In order to achieve its goal this study uses a mixed-knowledge methodology. The analysis identifies that the policy process addressed has integrated the gender dimension in the policy discourse of the Pact, meaning an important change in the traditional approach. Its integration is not sufficient in terms of consistency and visibility, but it has a real potential to mainstream gender in the Urban Agenda for the EU. To achieve that it would be necessary to make the issue more visible and to integrate gender expertise and guidelines for action in the work of the partnerships that are giving content to the priority topics of the Urban Agenda for the European Union.
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