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Paragraph 164 of the Beijing Platform for Action

2022-04-27

Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project

Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2019/10/06

164. In addressing the economic potential and independence of women, Governments and other actors should promote an active and visible policy of mainstreaming a gender perspective in all policies and programmes so that before decisions are taken, an analysis is made of the effects on women and men, respectively.

Beijing Declaration (1995)

Paragraph 164 of the Beijing Declaration is more concern about potential and independence than anything else. Its emphases focus on the ways in which national actors can move this forward. T the policy level, this is something within a realm of feasibility because people can vote.

Or, even if an autocratic or theocratic state under immense public pressure, they can make policy to avoid too much from a troublesome inheritance – their public. “Governments and other actors” can be an integral junction.

They represent the people. They harbour power endowed by popular vote if done in a majoritarian system, as in democracy. The hinge phrase in this paragraph is “gender perspective” because gender is the core contextualization for this.

In that, the “policies and programmes” endorsed would include some aspect of this “gendered perspective.”  Along the lines of paragraph 163, more of an emphasis on general items of independence and economic potential rather than particular economic considerations.

It’s stopping, examining policies and programmes, and making decisions based on analysis of the areas in which women’s and men’s economic potentials are unfulfilled, where women’s independence hasn’t been reached, and then working to eliminate the barriers.

Some of the economic potential may be looking at the levels of education between men and women. Others will incorporate a consideration of the job opportunities for men and women. Still others, they will pursue a course of analysis looking at quality and stability of jobs.

In the international era, it’s a precarious market in jobs for most people. It’s unfair, inequitably distributed, and a fact of life now. There’s not much to stipulate outside of these because this paragraph sets a general policy vision grounded in governments and a gendered perspective as the emphasis.

Its refreshing statements deal with the “the effects on women and men,” particularly as relates to economic potential, while mainly focusing on the core issues of “independence of women” here too.

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(Updated 2020-09-27, only use the updated listing, please) Not all nations, organizations, societies, or individuals accept the proposals of the United Nations; one can find similar statements in other documents, conventions, declarations and so on, with the subsequent statements of equality or women’s rights, and the important days and campaigns devoted to the rights of women and girls too:

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