Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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264 Gender Mainstreaming in Transportation Impact of Management Control eva Wittbom, Stockholm University and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden In international surveys, Sweden is considered to be the locus classicus for gender mainstreaming. At a macro level, the picture is clear, as government directives include specific goals for gender equality and the expectation that public agencies will mainstream gender into their core business.
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265GeNDeR MAINSTReAMING IN TRANSPoRTATIoN (author's translation of the Swedish formulation of the sixth transport policy subgoal: "a gender-equal transport system" in the annual appropriation directives issued by central government to the Road and Rail Administrations; www.esv.se)
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266 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 Transcribed interviews, notes from observations, and a close reading of steering documents and accounting reports furnish this paper with data covering the years 2002–2007 with regard to the policy goal of genderequal transport systems. TheoreTical fraMeWork of a feMinisT approach To ManaGeMenT conTrol The empirical findings are discussed with an interpretive approach of social constructions with feministic theorizing (Bacchi 1999–2008; Minnich 2005)
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267GeNDeR MAINSTReAMING IN TRANSPoRTATIoN represent in figures (Martin 1994)
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268 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 to be attained within a financial budget. The directives also give instructions on how agencies should report their performance (Holmblad Brunsson 2002)
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269GeNDeR MAINSTReAMING IN TRANSPoRTATIoN agencies did not have the capacity to integrate the goal of a gender-equal transport system in developing management control of customer orientation. Such development points at a marginalization and decoupling of gender issues in transportation (Squires 2005, 2007)
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270 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 a strong gendered order that opens career paths only for those employees who assimilate into the prevailing technocratic culture. one example comes from the process of formulating a management tool for customer orientation.
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271GeNDeR MAINSTReAMING IN TRANSPoRTATIoN A qualitative investigation of what is occurring in the planning process for the transport system is lacking, precluding the evaluation of gender equality. How is the agenda set?
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272 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 It can be questioned how the outcome can be visualized with the logics of mainstream management control, a logic that calls for specific and measurable targets in search of perfection. Bromiley and euske (1986)
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273GeNDeR MAINSTReAMING IN TRANSPoRTATIoN references Acker, J
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274 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 Haynes, K
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275GeNDeR MAINSTReAMING IN TRANSPoRTATIoN Sahlin-Andersson, K
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