The prevalence of violence against women in the Pacific region is among the highest in the world. Countries across the Pacific region have put in place policy strategies, legal frameworks and a raft of initiatives, but against their own and internationally accepted indicators there has been poor progress towards gender equality, despite the development cooperation efforts of many donors over several decades. What are the cultural contexts shaping the contemporary situation? Why is the current paradigm underpinning gender policy apparently ineffective in grasping the social actions that produce gender inequality in the Pacific?
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Gendering the City in the Pacific:
Melissa Demian & Annelin Eriksen
European Society for Oceanists, ESfO2018
Cambridge and London, 7-10 December 2018
https://www.pacific-studies.net/conferences/public.php?confID=3&action=session_detail&session=102