Los derechos de las mujeres en el aparato del Estado: los derroteros de «área mujer» de la provincia de Mendoza (Argentina)

Abstract

As from the return to democracy in 1983, the Argentine goverment committed itself to the creation of institutional spaces and to the implementation of public policies aimed at transforming unequal gender relations and at eliminating women’s discrimination. Similar commitments influenced even the most local governmental instances of the different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. This essay is devoted to the trajectory and the different manifestations of the process of creation and institutionalization of the main provincial agency in the province of Mendoza (Argentina) which, since 1988, is in charge of formulating and implementing public policy regarding women.