In recent decades, gender equality goals have been adopted widely in global policymaking, creating a demand for specialized knowledge and evidence to support the design and implementation of gender equality policies. Bridging feminist scholarship on gender expertise and practice–theoretical literature on knowledge production, this article examines a knowledge production initiative of the World Bank, the Gender Innovation Laboratories (GILs). While research has examined the position of gender experts and the content of gender expertise in global governance, it has overlooked how knowledge about gender is produced. In this paper, we use a practice–theoretical approach—assemblage thinking—to study the practical work mobilized in the GILs to produce, maintain, and disseminate knowledge about gender inequality. Drawing on interviews with lab researchers, documents, and online materials, and focusing on the epistemic practice of impact evaluations, our analysis demonstrates the work invested in assembling them, such as forging alignments with and securing support among stakeholders, activating repertoires of expertise, and translating results into material objects. These practices produce gender inequality as a governance object, which is amenable to technical policy interventions, which facilitates certain forms of action to address it. Yet, they simultaneously silence more political solutions to gender inequalities.

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让性别为人所知：在国际组织中集结性别专业知识

近几十年来，性别平等目标已在全球决策中得到广泛采用，从而产生了对专业知识和证据的需求，以支持性别平等政策的设计和实施。桥接关于性别专业知识和实践的女权主义学术研究——关于知识生产的理论文献，本文考察了世界银行的一项知识生产倡议，即性别创新实验室 (GIL)。虽然研究考察了性别专家的地位和全球治理中性别专业知识的内容，但它忽视了有关性别的知识是如何产生的。在本文中，我们使用实践-理论方法（组合思维）来研究 GIL 中调动的实际工作，以产生、维持和传播有关性别不平等的知识。利用对实验室研究人员的访谈、文件和在线材料，并专注于影响评估的认知实践，我们的分析展示了为整合它们所做的工作，例如与利益相关者建立联盟并确保利益相关者之间的支持，激活专业知识库，以及将结果转化为物质对象。这些做法将性别不平等作为一个治理对象产生，它可以接受技术政策干预，从而促进采取某些形式的行动来解决这个问题。然而，他们同时压制了针对性别不平等的更多政治解决方案。激活专业知识库，并将结果转化为物质对象。这些做法将性别不平等作为一个治理对象产生，它可以接受技术政策干预，从而促进采取某些形式的行动来解决这个问题。然而，他们同时压制了针对性别不平等的更多政治解决方案。激活专业知识库，并将结果转化为物质对象。这些做法将性别不平等作为一个治理对象产生，它可以接受技术政策干预，从而促进采取某些形式的行动来解决这个问题。然而，他们同时压制了针对性别不平等的更多政治解决方案。