None of the informants, in their descriptions of the various influences and pressures on the policy process, suggested that there was any outspoken expectation to create and enforce a gender sensitive or gender redistributive policy.
But here's the problem: the technology industry enforces a distinct gender hierarchy between front-end and back-end development.
For too long, prostitution laws have been enforced in a gender-discriminatory manner.
This California case is different than COYOTE's, which argued that Rhode Island's prostitution law was enforced in a gender-biased way, according to Doogan.
In Saudi Arabia, religious police enforce a strict policy of gender segregation, often harassing women who do not meet conservative standards of dress in public, according to a 2005 report by the US Human Rights think-tank Freedom House.
Since 1998, the Swedish government's school plan has forbidden enforcing gender stereotypes, and government-funded gender neutral kindergartens with gender aware teachers has made it possible for families to raise their children without a set gender identity – something that often sparks controversy in the foreign press.
Transgender women are sometimes accused of "enforcing the gender binary", an argument that feminist and trans activist Julia Serano points out is "cut from the same cloth as the arguments that gays and lesbians are merely looking for an alternative lifestyle, or that bisexuals are merely sex-crazed or sexually confused".
Since 2015, New York City has had strict regulations to this effect: Employers must use someone's expressed name and pronouns, they can't enforce a dress code that has gendered differences, and they must let people use the bathroom that matches the gender with which they identify.
We know that women are socialized to be more emotionally expressive than men, but it turns out mothers play a particular role in enforcing this gender norm, according to new British research.
The Observer's literary editor, William Skidelsky, said that it would be "unduly rigid" to attempt to enforce "a strict 50/50 division of genders on the Observer's books pages", but added that he does "try to ensure each week that there is a decent male-female spread in terms both of the authors we cover and the people we get to review them".
