“Mainstreaming” means making a topic a normal and natural part of everyday life, i.e. integrating it into the mainstream of processes and social attention. Gender Mainstreaming is thus intended to make gender equality between women and men into a cross-sectional topic in all areas and at all levels.

Literature:

Barbara Stiegler: Gender Powers Policy - 10 Questions and Answers on the Concept of Gender Mainstreaming ( 2004).

Barbara Stiegler: How gender enters the mainstream : concepts, arguments and practical examples of the EU strategy on gender mainstreaming (2001).

Barbara Stiegler: Gender in Relation - Ideas for Gender Mainstreaming Processes (2005).

Barbara Stiegler: Women and mainstreaming: political strategies and theories concerning the gender issue (2001).