ISBN:
9781137037459
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Series Statement:
The European Union Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42094
Keywords:
Sex role--European Union countries
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing Gender and the European Union -- Gender inequalities in Europe -- The EU gender regime: policies, institutions and actors -- Feminist evaluations of the EU gender regime -- This book -- 2 The History of Gender in the European Union -- The beginning: Article 119 on Equal Pay -- The intensification of gender policy in the 1970s -- Incremental development in the 1980s -- Positive action -- Feminist critiques -- Conclusion -- 3 Gendering Political Representation in the European Union -- Improving women's political representation in Europe -- Women in the parliaments of the member states and the European Union -- Women in cabinets in the member states -- Women in the European Commission -- Women in the European Council and the Council of the European Union -- Conclusion -- 4 Policy-Making Processes, Actors and Institutions in the EU from a Gender Perspective -- Policy-making processes and gender in the EU -- Women's policy agencies in the EU -- Civil society groups lobbying for gender equality in the EU -- Co-operation and contestation in 'velvet triangles' -- Conclusion -- 5 The EU Gender Policy: Reconciling Work and Family -- Reconciliation as an example of gender policy -- Legislating for equality: pregnancy, maternity and parental leave directives -- Regulating through soft law: childcare policy -- Conclusion -- 6 Gender Mainstreaming in EU Policy-Making -- The institutionalization of gender mainstreaming in the EU -- Gender mainstreaming in EU development policy -- Assessing gender mainstreaming in the EU -- Gender mainstreaming in EU employment policy -- Conclusion -- 7 Gender Violence in the European Union -- EU policy on trafficking in women: illegal migration and transnational organized crime.
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