Date of Award
2010
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology
Keywords
Social sciences
Supervisor
Lynne Phillips
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
The United Nation's Millennium Development Goals were implemented in the year 2000 in efforts to re-energize social development initiatives on a global scale. As a UN organization, UNIFEM has an obligation to integrate this new framework for development into their current mandate, regardless of whether or not it is perceived as useful to UNIFEM's goals and activities. This study explores the nature of the relationship between UNIFEM and the MDGs, and questions the implications this interface has on the construction of pathways to achieving gender equality and women's empowerment. My findings suggest that over time, UNIFEM operates more like the bureaucratic organization of the UN, and less like a social movement organization many feminists expect it to be. This indicates a narrowing of the possibilities imaginable for the futures of women on the part of UNIFEM.
Recommended Citation
Vander Weide, Lisa, "Pathways to gender equality? Implications of the interface between UNIFEM and the MDGs" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 8237.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/8237