“I speak fluent patriarchy, but it’s not my mother tongue”. Perspectives of a feminist insider within international institutions

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24 janvier 2020

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Introduction In 2014, a Senior Gender Adviser working for a hyper-masculine department at the United Nations (UN), made a request to her supervisor to be invited to the weekly Senior Management Meeting; she wanted to present an important development in the work of gender mainstreaming. Access was granted, but her intervention was put as the last point of the agenda, under what is commonly referred to as “Any Other Business” (AOB), thus sending the not so subliminal message that gender-related...

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