Diplomacy is today still considered a typical "man's domain". According to this article, this is a consequence of the long history of social gender inequality. By placing discrimination against women within the integral social organisation of work and by discovering the harmonised activity of the important institutional mechanisms of sexist (androcentric) order reproduction, one can find answers to the following questions: why are women in politics still underrepresented and why are they almost absent in the most prestigious and powerful domains of political decision-making. Such an integral approach allows an understanding of the various attempts of different international organisations in the last decades of the 20th century (particularly the UN) to eliminate discrimination against women. The gradual changes in the field of diplomacy, such as placing women in important diplomatic posts, which are discussed in the framework of broader social circumstances, are making it lose its one-gendered image. The presentation of women entering the field of diplomacy as active diplomats (and not only in the role of an appendage to a man - diplomat) in the United States can well illustrate the stubbornness of androcentrism in modern society and the complexity of barriers encountered by women in diplomacy. Finally, the article provides an outline of opportunities regarding the articulation and implementation of gender-balanced diplomacy in the future.
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