Abstract

In 2011–2012, the journal Gender & Development ¹ instigated a discussion between women’s rights activists and gender and development policymakers and practitioners on the progress of gender mainstreaming. Gender mainstreaming is an approach to women’s rights and gender issues, widely adopted by governments and development institutions of all sizes, shapes and hues after it acquired currency at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China, in 1995.