¿Cómo evaluamos el éxito de las políticas de igualdad de género? Criterios y herramientas metodológicas

Abstract

After the gender mainstreaming strategy was approved at the 4th World Conference on Women of United Nations (Beijing, 1995), gender equality has been increasingly recognized as a key element to be included not only in the phases of policy design and formulation but also in the evaluation. In this regard, for the last decades different theoretical-methodological proposals have been developed for evaluation and gender equality. This research note aims at contributing to the emerging literature and practice on evaluation of gender equality policies. Specifically, based on the review of the existing literature on evaluation and gender equality, it reflects on what does assessing success mean and how to do it in the case of gender equality policies. The results show the relevance of defining success of this kind of polices as well as the specific criteria to evaluate them, in a contextualised and negotiated way. The results also suggest using several methodological tools -developed in the field of gender equality policies and evaluation- in order to capture the complexity of the change in gender equality.