Overview
- Offers a systematic analysis of leadership and representation by women
- Presents also repository of historic information of individuals
- Investigates the role of women leaders at the United Nations
Part of the book series: Gender and Politics (GAP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The face of international politics has changed significantly in the 21st century: it has become increasingly female. Whether that includes women in multilateral meetings, global conferences and embassies, or women at the UN and one of its many agencies in the field, it is apparent that women are accessing leadership positions in a variety of areas. This book investigates the development of gender equality at the United Nations by analyzing women in leadership roles. This introduction of empirical feminism to the study of international organizations applies what is known about women’s participation and representation in comparative politics and gender studies to the United Nations System. It traces women’s access to leadership roles, and explains where and why a range of hurdles prevent women from participating in the work of the UN. In doing so, it offers insights into recruitment and human resources practices and their politics, and into leadership by bureaucratic actors.
Reviews
"The UN is not impenetrable, nor is it static. It is shaped in important ways by its internal gendered dynamics. Kirsten Haack here gives us revealing and nuanced gendered data over time - between agencies - to chart and make sense of the actual workings of the UN, including the women's campaigns to reform the UN. I felt like a feminist miner as I dug into this timely book."
— Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and Bases, updated edition (2014)
“Women’s Access, Representation and Leadership in the United Nations fills a yawning gap not only in the international organization and UN literatures, but also in the feminist international relations literature. Kirsten Haack brings together feminist theory and leadership studies with an impressive array of data on trends in women’s presence in different parts of the UN system and case studies of five women executive heads of UN agencies. She shows how attitudinal barriers have been far more important than explicit ones, and demonstrates the difference that action on gender parity within institutional processes can make in the flow of ideas, norms, and policies.”
— Margaret P. Karns, Professor Emerita of Political Science, University of Dayton and Senior Fellow in Global Governance and Human Security, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kirsten Haack is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Northumbria University, UK. She is Author of The United Nations Democracy Agenda (2011) and has published in Global Governance, Global Society, Journal of Women Politics & Policy, and International Studies Perspectives. Her research interests include international organizations, leadership and women in global governance, the UN Security Council and law-making, and international dimensions of democracy and representation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women's Access, Representation and Leadership in the United Nations
Authors: Kirsten Haack
Series Title: Gender and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83537-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83536-1Published: 28 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83539-2Published: 29 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83537-8Published: 27 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-5814
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5822
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 222
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Politics and Gender, International Organization, Governance and Government, Political Leadership, Political Sociology