Interview. De politieke wil en het Nederlandse emancipatiebeleid. Een gesprek met Joke Swiebel
Auteurs
Jantine Oldersma
Samenvatting
Jantine Oldersma
Political will and Dutch policies for
women
A conversation with Joke Swiebel
For more than two decades Joke Swiebel
was a civil servant in the Dutch Directorate
for the Coordination of Emancipation
Policy and the architect of policies for
women. She served as a MP in the European
Parliament between 1999-2004.
The interview poses the question why
the Dutch policies on women seem to
falter while the concept of gender mainstreaming
– more or less invented in the
Netherlands and heavily promoted by the
Directorate – is embraced by the international
community. Although structural
factors like the political colour of coalitions
and the place of the Women’s Policy
Agency within the departmental setting
are important in her view, Joke Swiebel
emphasizes the role abilities and convictions
of politicians and civil servants play
in the success or failure of policy.