Politiques d’égalité de genre au Chili sous les gouvernements de la Concertación (1990-2010)

Abstract

This paper reassesses the gender equality policies implemented in Chile by the Concertación governments. During its twenty years in power, this centre-left coalition succeeded in making gender a public action category. Our aim is to grasp the multi-level dynamics in which that category is inserted, at the crossing of the national, the international and the transnational levels. Its advent and its consolidation were supported by networks of expertise made up of feminists from the UN system, women from feminist associations and women belonging to executive and legislative institutions. Our diachronic approach makes use of a historical sociology of the politics in order to comprehend the creation of a political space open to gender, the networking activity of Sernam and of the feminist associations, as well as the construction of an institutional framework for gender equality.

Keywords

• gender
• public policy
• equality
• concertación