ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the relationship between gendered inequalities and global governance. It focuses on the power of gender to shape the meaning of state power in world politics and the relative positionings of women and men as state actors in world politics. The chapter also looks at other gendered institutions at the global level and the new gender rules that are emanating from some of them and that are having impacts on states and the repositionings of women and men. It explains that new rules associated with the new global politics of gender equality do not necessarily disrupt gendered divisions of power and leave intact the power of gender and the crisis of representation it sustains. The chapter examines where women are positioned relative to men as political elites in formal global power structures. Discrimination against sexual minorities and nonnormative gender identities has only recently become a part of the global governance agenda.
