A new review of the United Nations’ gender architecture appears ready to weaken the organization’s ability to achieve gender equality, particularly at the country level. MsReads via pass_blue
Scenes from the observance of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2023, in the UN General Assembly. A new internal review assessing the UN’s progress on its gender equality ambitions proposes to curtail the scope of UN Women, the entity tasked solely with upholding women’s rights, alarming advocates. RYAN BROWN/UN WOMENof the United Nations’ gender architecture appears ready to weaken the organization’s ability to achieve gender equality, particularly at the country level.
Much like the system it aims to reform, the review falls short of its transformative potential. It fails to address persistent challenges, stops short of holding leaders accountable, worsens divisions, undermines the work of gender advocates and offers vague or politically naïve recommendations that seek to recreate past efforts without scrutiny. The proposed repositioning of UN Women’s role, intending to curtail its operational footprint, has become a particularly contentious issue.
Equally disappointing is the lack of a competitive selection process and limited chances for engagement and input by the people and groups most affected by the proposed changes. The informal release of the report last month has fueled speculation about its motives, perpetuating a pattern of limited transparency and openness with civil society.
While the review acknowledges commendable progress made over the past 15 years, it also reveals a bleak,, reality: ineffective gender mainstreaming efforts by a small number of marginalized and overstretched gender equality advocates; competition over dwindling resources that cannot be reliably assessed across the system; inconsistent leadership and accountability; unclear authority and mandates; a patriarchal organizational culture; and strained relationships among member states.
It perplexingly concludes that “the lack of a shared understanding of gender equality” is the biggest challenge facing the UN today, while it overlooks member state obstructionism and the unwillingness of leadership to challenge the power dynamics that perpetuate a patriarchal culture in the system. Member states’ influence over funding decisions and leadership appointments across the UN actively de-prioritize gender equality, imposing scarcity and marginality as operational conditions.
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