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"Mr President, gender mainstreaming was put on the European Union’s agenda and through the European Union on that of the UN around ten years ago by a joint action of Swedish and Dutch feminist policymakers. I know this so well because I was involved myself. The basic thought behind this approach, that is that women’s problems are cross-cutting problems, goes back much further however and was applied in policy far earlier. In the Netherlands we spoke of facet policy and policy integration, in Germany we said that women’s policy was a ‘cross-sectional problem’, Mrs Gröner, and in French it was simply called
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The experience acquired varied somewhat. We can now fill quite a bookshelf with the successes and also the problems. Unfortunately we also find misunderstandings on this bookshelf and perhaps even wilful distortions. Some false guides in fact try to sell what is actually specific policy under the guise of gender mainstreaming and that gets us nowhere. Fortunately, in her more than outstanding report, our rapporteur, Mrs Gröner, has erected a dam against such misuse of this term in the European Parliament. The report makes clear once and for all that gender mainstreaming is not a matter of ‘add women and stir’. No, that is not how it is. The idea of gender mainstreaming is to strip so-called general policy of its generality, to shatter this myth and to see how it has a different effect on men and women. Let us realise that we still have a long way to go before this is really understood.
Many men after all find the idea that their picture of reality is not relevant for women unbearable. Hidden behind these definitions of reality are positions of power which, as feminists know, will never be given up without a struggle. The political question behind this report is therefore the following: are the men who rule the roost in this Parliament really prepared to step aside a little and to share the power with us? As long as we cannot answer that question with a heartfelt yes, we must stay on the path we are following, despite all the pessimistic noises that I hear. We must keep on beating the drum."@en1
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