strategic objective h integrate gender perspectives in legislation public policies programmes and projects and strategic objective h generate and disseminate genderdisaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation see also paragraphs b and b of the beijing platform as well as paragraph of the beijing declaration as government entities national women s machineries tend to be perceived as prioritizing loyalty to state institutions over unequivocal advocacy for women s rights it also includes separate strategic objectives related to women s political participation in the section pertaining to aimed conflict see box below although many arab states granted suffrage rights to women in the s and s women have been systematically underrepresented in government and it is only recently that they were able to vote and to stand for elections in some gcc countries nonetheless recent years have been marked by positive trends in this area