ABSTRACT
Many people who are concerned with gender injustices in water management have noted that there is a huge gap between ‘paper’ recognition of gender issues in water management, policies and projects, and real on-the-ground efforts to address such inequities effectively. At the same time, they point to the lack of meaningful integration of gender questions in mainstream water analyses and discussions. Gender remains very much a side issue or an after-thought and is not seen as belonging to the core of what water management is about. This chapter looks at one possible reason for the resistance of the water profession to considering gender insights: the incompatibilities between water experts and gender experts in how they conceptualize and act upon water realities.
