The Gender Mainstreaming Agenda
Women's Month has come and gone, but the issue of gender has, if anything, been once again rekindled. This is especially as the deadline for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is also drawing near. For many, the question foremost on their mind is: to what extent the gender mainstreaming agenda has advanced, at what cost and to whom? For others, however, the whole issue is a boggling and yet uncomplicated none issue.
In light of the above, two Johannesburg-based consultancies, SRN Business Consulting and Comecinc Communications and Strategic Solutions Services have organised an exciting two-day 'no holds barred' seminar that seeks to revisit, explore and review the gender mainstreaming agenda from yesterday to the present day. The seminar shall among its objectives, trace the issue of gender mainstreaming from its inception to the present by examining, its origins, representations and impact via the sharing of evidence based research, lived experiences and best practice recommendations.
Themes to be covered during this two-day interactive seminar include:
Day one
From yesteryear to today: An overview of gender mainstreaming
What then is gender mainstreaming?... inclusivity/equality?
Does gender mainstreaming mean identical? Modern discussions around gender mainstreaming
In the name of: socio-economic and political responses to gender mainstreaming
Gender mainstreaming the means of production and historically "male terrain"
Inside the man cave': Women's experiences of gender mainstreaming
Day two
It's a man's world: men's experiences of gender mainstreaming
Navigations and representations of gender mainstreaming in diverse media and literature
I still beg to differ: some br(others) and sisters cultural take on gender mainstreaming
'A view from cyberspace': millennials on gender mainstreaming
The aftermath of gender mainstreaming: gender analytical frameworks: researching, assessing and evaluating
Recommendations: best practices to advancing the gender mainstreaming agenda
Time: 09:30 - 16:00
Venue: Resolution Circle Towers, Johannesburg
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Venue and cost include parking, bottomless coffee and tea station, filtered water, lunch and juice, x two tea time snacks and free wi-fi.