ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the relationship between gendered inequalities and global governance. It examines where women are positioned relative to men as political elites in formal global power structures. The chapter demonstrates how the power of gender remains systematically at work through an apparent paradox. It follows the general trajectory of "adding women," to disturbing gender and gendered assumptions, to complicating gender. Neoliberal governmentality refers to the ascendance of the global capitalist economy and "economic rationality" as "the sole criteria for governance". Prior to the rise of feminist International Relations, feminist interventions had been made in a host of disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, since at least the 1960s. As intergovernmental organizations have become more significant actors in global governance, more attention has been given to women's representation in UN bodies. Finally, to expanding feminist politics beyond the issue of women in politics.
