Gender Policy in Local Governments: How to Improve Development Road?

Galyna Fesenko; Tetiana Fesenko

doi:10.5958/2347-6869.2020.00013.8

Gender Policy in Local Governments

How to Improve Development Road?

Authors

Dr. Galyna Fesenko Professor, Department of History and Cultural Studies, O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Dr. Tetiana Fesenko Professor, Department of Automation and Computer-Integrated Technologies Kharkiv Petro Vasylenko National Technical University of Agriculture, Kharkiv, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5958/2347-6869.2020.00013.8

Keywords:

gender mainstreaming, local governance, feminine and masculine logical systems, municipality website, equal access, gender responsibility

Abstract

The paper focuses on mainstreaming gender equality goals at the level of local government. On the part of local government, this requires foremost the using these different needs to inform all local governance processes – policymaking, planning, budget allocation, Programme development, local service delivery and performance monitoring – in order to directly address existing gender inequalities.

The authors proposed a methodology for assessing the gender orientation of local management systems, which is designed in the following parameters: Gender Focal Point (in the organizational structure), gender sensitive leadership style, gender budget, gender statistics, and gender planning, gender-responsible performance. The use of qualitative characteristics of gender orientation in the local management system allows for both internal introspection and external monitoring. The analysis technique is proposed to the gender content of the municipality website and applied to the Vienna website as a “best practice” of city governance. The model was tested by assessing the gender mainstream practices of local government bodies in Ukraine. In addition, a comparative analysis, and monitoring of the websites of the municipalities of cities with a population of one million in Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro) was carried out. This will allow municipalities to design an individual trajectory for improving gender-mainstreaming practices.

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Fesenko, G., & Fesenko, T. (2022). Gender Policy in Local Governments: How to Improve Development Road?. SOCRATES, 8(2), 50–63. https://doi.org/10.5958/2347-6869.2020.00013.8

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020): (Special Issue) 2021COMAGI 1st International Conference on Migration and Gender Issues

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Migration and Gender Issues

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