Gender equality policy and universities: feminist strategic alliances to re-gender the curriculum

Reforming the gender-blind higher education curriculum is a crucial intervention for an effective implementation of gender mainstreaming across policy areas. This article examines the policy innovation adopted in Catalonia wherein quality assurance processes have been re-gendered and incentives to e...

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Author: Verge Mestre, Tània
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repository:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/56825
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554477X.2021.1904763
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:universities
higher education curriculum
gender-blindness
gender mainstreaming
quality assurance
evaluation from a gender perspective
feminist strategic alliances
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Summary:Reforming the gender-blind higher education curriculum is a crucial intervention for an effective implementation of gender mainstreaming across policy areas. This article examines the policy innovation adopted in Catalonia wherein quality assurance processes have been re-gendered and incentives to engage the professoriate in gender curricular reforms have been introduced. In doing so, it unveils the opportunity structures and institutional settings shaping the micro-political strategies deployed by the feminist strategic alliances that have stirred such policy changes and discuss their potential transferability to other contexts. The article also pinpoints the relevance of a feminist reappropration of evaluation processes.