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| 48% of personnel at DPKO
Headquarters in 2005 are women |
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| 33% of women professional staff at DPKO
Headquarters in 2005 |
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| 17.4% of women professionals at the
Logistics Support Division in 2006 |
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1992: Year
Joan Anstee became the first female Secretary General’s
Representative to a DPKO Mission (UN Angola Verifi-
cation Mission, 1992-1993) |
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2003: Year
Jane Holl Lute became the first female Assistant
Secretary-General for Peace-keeping Operations.
(Data from Executive Office, DPKO) |
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Profiles of Women at LSD |
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| WOMEN AT LSD |
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| “ By integrating the principle of equal rights and opportunities for women and men…we contribute significantly to making gender equality a reality.” |
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| -Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Gender Mainstreaming in Peacekeeping Operations Progress Report |
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| Commitment to gender equality |
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| The achievement of
GENDER BALANCE
within the organization, and to gender mainstreaming
throughout, is part of LSD’s commitment to gender equality.
The two
are distinguished by the following characteristics: |
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GENDER BALANCE
in staffing is a goal both for the entire UN
Secretariat and for the Department of
Peacekeeping Operations and Department of Field Support. With regard to civilian personnel, the UN has the specific goals of
“…achieving 50/50 gender distribution in all categories of posts within the United Nations system,
especially at senior and policy-making levels…” (General Assembly resolution,59/164). The need to achieve greater parity between the number of women and men in peacekeeping operations is
based on the UN goal of gender equality, i.e., equality between men and women. The increased participation of women in peacekeeping is critical to the attainment of gender equality. |
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GENDER
MAINSTREAMING refers to the “process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action including legislation, policies or programmes in all areas and at all levels. It is
a strategy for making the concerns and experiences of women and men an integral dimension of design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political,
economic, and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality” (Report of the Economic and Social
Council for 1997, A/52/3). DPKO/DFS undertakes gender mainstreaming as part of its commitment and responsibilities under Security Resolution 1325 entitled “Women, Peace and Security.” Security
Council resolution 1325 acknowledges the need to address the specific vulnerabilities of women in conflict situations and to capitalize on their untapped potential to contribute to the establishment
of peace and security. |
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Both efforts to ensure equality between men and women are included in DPKO/DFS work on gender
equality, however, the issue of gender mainstreaming is considered a policy issue, while gender balance is a human resources concern. |
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