Abstract
Numerous tools for addressing gender inequality in governmental policies, programs, and research have emerged across the globe. Unfortunately, such tools have largely failed to account for the impacts of colonialism on Indigenous Peoples’ lives and lands. In Canada, Indigenous organizations have advanced gender-based analysis frameworks that are culturally-grounded and situate the understanding of gender identities, roles, and responsibilities within and across diverse Indigenous contexts. However, there is limited guidance on how to integrate Indigenous gender-based frameworks in the context of research. The authors of this paper are participants of a multi-site research program investigating intersectoral spaces of Indigenous-led renewable energy development within Canada. Through introspective methods, we reflected on the implementation of gender considerations into our research team’s governance and research activities. We found three critical lessons: (1) embracing Two-Eyed Seeing or Etuaptmumk while making space for Indigenous leadership; (2) trusting the expertise that stems from the lived experiences and relationships of researchers and team members; and (3) shifting the emphasis from ‘gender-based analysis’ to ‘gender-based relationality’ in the implementation of gender-related research considerations. Our research findings provide a novel empirical example of the day-to-day principles and practices that may arise when implementing Indigenous gender-based analysis frameworks in the context of research.
Highlights
Decades of feminist organizing at an international level have made a clear case for the need to explore and address gender inequalities in governmental policies, programs, evaluation, and research [1,2]
The first two insights are grouped under an overarching theme of programmatic research preparation. These two themes chronicle the efforts made to operationalize the principle of Etuaptmumk, or Two-Eyed Seeing, among A SHARED Future’s participants, and refine the programmatic attempts toward building capacity on Indigenous GBA among all involved research teams
The second two insights are grouped under an overarching theme of relational implementation, which extends our first set of insights, speaking to the participants’ journey in grounding Indigenous GBA principles within each research teams’ local context, and to the challenges that A SHARED Future members faced in bringing gender-specific considerations into their work
Summary
Decades of feminist organizing at an international level have made a clear case for the need to explore and address gender inequalities in governmental policies, programs, evaluation, and research [1,2]. By the 1970s, nation-states around the globe had committed to supporting women’s empowerment and gender equality on development agendas, resulting in programs and policies that targeted women [3]. The trend in women-specific policies has shifted over the years. Conference on Women, held in Beijing, called for “mainstreaming a gender perspective in policy development and the implementation of programmes,” in part by considering the differential impacts of policy and programs on women and men [4] The nationstates that subscribed to the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action committed.
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