Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Altınbaş University Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Studies: Issues, Facts and Approaches, İstanbul, Türkiye, 11 - 12 Mart 2021, ss.54, (Özet Bildiri)
Feminist International Relations has succeeded in bringing gender equality to the agenda by
challenging mainstream international relations theories. International organizations such as the
World Bank and the United Nations, two important representatives of the international order,
were both criticized by the feminist theory for protecting the male-dominated administration
system and were seen as the appropriate ground for the spread of gender equality to the global.
Development was the driving force for these two international organizations to address gender.
The main question of this article: Is IPE discipline or governments, global financial regimes, and
institutions adequately taken into account gender issues? The importance of the development
policies of the United Nations and the World Bank in determining the roles and positions of
women in the global political economy has been pointed out.
Ensuring gender equality is considered as one of the basic components of sustainable development.
This acceptance process was not easy. Liberalism and realism are among the mainstream
theories that dominate international relations and the international political economy
as a component of it and they imposed a male dominated world system. A male-dominated
approach has also taken over the administrative units of the institutions that govern the world.
Therefore, it took time for feminist theory to open up space. Feminist theory’s reassessment of
the economic structure within the framework of gender equality and its publication of studies
trying to prove experimentally that economic models involving women support development
attracted the attention of international institutions. Two international organizations, such as
the World Bank and the United Nations, which make development one of their basic policies,
support gender equality more and more every day. On the other hand, the United Nations’ approach
to gender equality in terms of human rights and its writing in its constitution is seen as
a challenge to the male dominated system.
As a result, although these institutions are subject to criticism due to their male-dominated governments,
steps are taken within themselves to change this form of management and gender
equality is tried to be universalized through global policies.