Putting Gender Mainstreaming into Practice

Gender mainstreaming was established as a global strategy for the promotion of gender equality and women's rights at the 4th World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. This publication contains the proceedings of the first regional symposium on gender streamlining, organised by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) at Bangkok in December 2001. Issues discussed include: poverty alleviation and the empowerment of women, institutional change and gender equality, government policy development, and educational issues.