Assessing Gender Mainstreaming in Developmental Organizations of Abbottabad

Razzaq, Sadia and Sadiq, Tayyaba and Naseem, Imran (2012): Assessing Gender Mainstreaming in Developmental Organizations of Abbottabad.

Abstract

The study assesses strategies of various developmental organizations in Abbottabad to incorporate gender in Project management. This is census based research because of various limitations attached with data collection, whole population considered to reduce the chances of maximum error. Data analysis performed by descriptive statistics, correlation and regression. The results show that there are strategies at national level and various international commitments as well. Moreover, a five year project also implemented successfully by UNDP to spread the awareness of gender mainstreaming and to make the organizations to adopt gender mainstreaming in their policies, planning and managements. However, primary data analysis shows that employers are aware of gender mainstreaming and have aptitude about gender mainstreaming, but due to no implementation of designed national level policies, both genders feel lot of problems regarding the fulfillment of their duties. These problems create stress and frustration and deteriorate the effectiveness of employers work that ultimately impact badly on overall efficiency of organizations.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Gender, Development Organization, Mainstreaming, Equality, Sustainable development, Decolonization, Gender Awareness
• Subjects: N - Economic History > N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J0 - General

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Developmental organizations refer to organizations busy in provision of basic needs to public.

Gender Blindness: Person who do not treat male and female equally and is unaware of gender equality.

Triple roles: role of women in society being house wife, working lady and also community involvements.

Norms: within organizations norms developed automatically according to daily routine, they are not standardized written rules.