Gender public policies: from «gender blindness» to «gender relevance» on evaluability assessment

Abstract

The impulse and consolidation of gender mainstreaming since the IV United Nations Women’s World Conference (Beijing, 1995) which has laid the foundations for the incorporation of a gender perspective throughout the life cycle of public policies, including to their progression. This academic work, as part of a larger study, is based on an approach on the inclusion of the gender perspective into the analysis of evaluability. With this, a review of the literature has been carried out with the aim of analyzing the methodological contributions in the matter of evaluability from a gender perspective, emphasizing the relevance of gender on evaluability assessments and studies on equality policies. In this regard, some limitations have been observed in the literature and in the evaluability studies themselves, derived from an absence of a gender perspective in them. Given this circumstance, this article contains a series of recommendations regarding gender relevance in evaluability assessments.