Women working to change unfair treatment in bureaucracies can be either -missionaries- or -mandarins, - and must often be a combination of the two. -Missionaries- work from within the organization in their pursuit of gender equity. -Mandarins- work to adapt to the techniques and practices of the bureaucracy.

This book examines two kinds of strategies for making the bureaucratic structures of organizations, multilateral institutions and non-governmental organizations more gender-equitable. The contributors examine gender struggles not only at the discursive level, where women's...