POLS 2110 Lecture 15: Lecture15

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2110
• Professor: Cheryl Collier

Document Summary

White and newman three questions to assess canadian women"s movement"s contributions to positive political change beyond representation (119) women"s movement: 1. What do women want and what are the goals of the: 2. Does women"s activism make a policy difference: 3. Women"s movement is diverse; so are its goals: makes measuring policy impact difficult, need to look at process of policy making and outcomes changes in both can be success". Process is about seeing women" and being gender-aware (120: still a work in progress. Activism and state avenues toward process and policy success. Diversity = state can igore or marginalize women"s voices, even today: don"t know what they want ; ask for too much anyway , equal" already. Movement not as successful in changing the existing framework of political power from a feminist perspective (rowbotham on p. 120) 1960s rcsw (1967: women"s bureau of the department of labour (1954) main response arm of the state.