Implementering av jämställdhetsarbete på kommunal nivå - En komparativ studie om genomförandet av gender budgeting i Göteborgs stad

Abstract

This study focuses on the implementation of gender budgeting, which is about highlighting the resource allocation between women and men behind a budget, in public organizations. More specific the study focuses on how the implementation of gender budgeting works in Gothenburg city in two administrations areas. The reason why we have chosen to study the work of gender budgeting on a local level is mainly because it is not legislated in Sweden. Nevertheless some cities have decided to adopt gender budgeting as a political goal. One of these cities is Gothenburg. According to a few civil servants in Gothenburg that actively works with gender budgeting, many of the administrations in the city is facing a huge challenge with the implementation of gender analysis, which is a significant part of the gender budgeting goal. With the background of Mazmanian and Sabatiers theory of six steps that are necessary for a full implementation in organizations that are vertically controlled, the aim is to observe how well impleented gender budgeting are in these two chosen administrations areas. Furthermore, we want to identify if the main challenges that these administrations areas are facing is the lack of gender analysis. We also want to find out more on a general basis what the main concerns are with the implementation of gender budgeting in the administration.The result reveals that both administrations areas are lacking in the work with gender analysis. It also reveals that one of the administrations areas also has difficulties with the groundwork of finding gender statistics. We can thus draw the conclusion that the six steps in Mazmanian and Sabatiers theory are not fulfilled. One of the ground causes for the deficient implementation is due to the lack of research and education. To make this implementation work, one important condition is to realize that it is important with different methods depending on the administration area. In the current situation there is no working method which is applicable in all administration areas in Gothenburg.