WUNRN
Article gives historical
documentation that can add background to modern UN gender equality reflection.
Gender
in the Malestream - Acceptance of Women &
Gender
Equality in Different United Nations Organisations
Forum
for Development Studies -Author: Torild Skard
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Besides the UN itself the focus is on the
large specialised agencies: FAO, ILO, UNESCO and WHO, two technical agencies in
male-dominated areas IMO and UNIDO and two funds specifi cally related to
women and children UNFPA and UNICEF during the period up to the end of the
20th century. The recommendations adopted by the womens conferences required a
rethinking and a reorganisation of work in the UN organisations, but the
follow-up encountered bureaucratic problems and resistance to change as well as
to gender equality. Although some progress was made more in some
organisations than in others implementation of the recommendations was slow, cumbersome
and incomplete.
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