Case Study
Gender Mainstreaming Calls for Gender Breakdowns
Gender mainstreaming is a new approach to designing and assessing gov¬ernment and municipal activities. This approach increases transparency and ensures that public activities are designed to address the differential needs of women and men. The system was developed by gender expert Gertrude Aström from Sweden, who visited Israel in June 2011 and was a guest of the Ministry of Finance and the Knesset.
Gender mainstreaming entails a new way of thinking about the differences be¬tween women and men (and between girls and boys) – their behaviors, roles, and needs – every time a program or a budget is designed or assessed.
What is required for gender mainstreaming? Firstly, an interest on the part of the Ministry to work toward gender equality and the will to promote it. Second, gender mainstreaming requires data disaggregated by gender about those who receive services, potentially and actually, and about those who provide them.
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