Missionaries and Mandarins

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Comprises seven papers which examine the strategies used by women attempting to enter and transform a range of development institutions (state organizations, multilateral institutions and NGOs) through the promotion of gender-sensitive bureaucratic structures and practices. Explores the challenges of including women's interests in the policymaking process, describes efforts to mainstream gender equality into national development planning and investigates the integration of gender concerns in multilateral organizations and NGOs