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Mecanismos de Mujer

English translation: Agencies for Women

03:30 Mar 31, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care / Gender mainstreaming in health
Spanish term or phrase: Mecanismos de Mujer
This a document (37,000 pages!!) on gender mainstreaming in the health sector (transversalización de género (TG) en salud). The discussion here is about implementing policies on GM. I think the idea of "Mecanismos de Mujer" is the use of existing women's health mechanisms, but I'm looking for better ideas.

El empuje de las políticas suele quedar a cargo de voluntades individuales que traccionan los pocos avances que se han registrado en la TG en salud y la implementación de estos planes suele quedar a cargo de los **Mecanismos de Mujer**, con difusas distribuciones de responsabilidades (y partidas presupuestarias) entre los sectores del Estados para dar cumplimiento a los objetivos.
Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 19:48
English translation:Agencies for Women
Explanation:
In the U.S., at least, this is fairly common parlance. I think "agencies" implies governmental more than "programs," which could include NGOs, etc., as well as governments.
Selected response from:

Thomas Walker
United States
Local time: 19:48
Grading comment
Thank you, Tom. Examples would have helped ...
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4women oriented
Steven Huddleston
4Agencies for Women
Thomas Walker
3women's arms
Natalia Pedrosa
3(the responsibility of) Female Initiative Programs/ Programmes
Adrian MM.
3women´s adaptations
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Summary of reference entries provided
Mécanismos de Género in Colombia
Charles Davis

  

Answers


1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
women's arms


Explanation:
I see it as "armas de mujer", but maybe I'm getting it wrong.
Cheers!

Natalia Pedrosa
Spain
Local time: 04:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in CatalanCatalan, Native in EnglishEnglish
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
women oriented


Explanation:
I've seen this trend mentioned in some recent HR-related translations I have done. So I tend to interpret this as a bias or prejudice that is (perhaps not so) slowly developing in many corporate HR environments.

Example sentence(s):
  • tend to be/become *women-oriented* with rarefied accountability (and budget assignments)
Steven Huddleston
Mexico
Local time: 20:48
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
(a cargo de los) Mecanismos de Mujer
(the responsibility of) Female Initiative Programs/ Programmes


Explanation:
I've used Female to avoid the official title of the WHI in the first example sentence, whilst I have got there via measures in the KudoZ web ref. answer and Charles D's Clombian ref.

Example sentence(s):
  • The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) is a major, long-term research program designed to address cardiovascular disease, cancer and osteoporosis.

    Reference: http://eng.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/petroleum-eng-s...
    Reference: http://www.fredhutch.org/en/labs/phs/projects/womens-health-...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Agencies for Women


Explanation:
In the U.S., at least, this is fairly common parlance. I think "agencies" implies governmental more than "programs," which could include NGOs, etc., as well as governments.

Thomas Walker
United States
Local time: 19:48
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 10
Grading comment
Thank you, Tom. Examples would have helped ...
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
women´s adaptations


Explanation:
My opinion.

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 21:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 16
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Reference comments


9 hrs peer agreement (net): +2
Reference: Mécanismos de Género in Colombia

Reference information:
"Se denomina “Mecanismo de Género” al desarrollo institucional para garantizar la equidad de género. Existen mecanismos de primer nivel: Secretaría de la Mujer y/o Equidad de Género; segundo nivel: Consejerías, oficinas o unidades a cargo del tema de las mujeres y la equidad de género; y de tercer nivel: Grupo o equipo asesor para los temas de las mujeres y la equidad de género."
http://www.equidadmujer.gov.co/oag/Documents/Sistematizacion...

Maybe something like "women's rights agencies"?

Charles Davis
Spain
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 136

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  neilmac: I was thinking "women's organisations"... But am too busy with my own work tonight to give it any more thought…
6 hrs
  -> Cheers, Neil ;-) Same here.
agree  Robert Carter: If it's referring to this specific Colombian meaning, then I agree with "women's rights agencies", otherwise, like Neil, I'd go with "women's organizations" too.
15 hrs
  -> Thanks seems reasonable. Thanks, Robert!
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