Types of State Capability for Women's and Gender Equality Policies : Worldwide comparison with a structure-based approach

What sorts of institutional arrangements do states use to deliver women's and gender equality policies? State capability is conceptualised over the structures, the entirety of all women's policy agencies in one state. This paper discusses a conceptual framework enabling large scale comparisons of state capability in women's and gender equality policies. The typology of institutional architecture gives the current situation in 151 countries. Analysis of most actual and comprehensive data reveals that states employ a wide institutional variety of state capability. Despite various forms of heterogeneity, there are global blueprints of current state capability for women and gender equality.