Women and Public Policy : The Shifting Boundaries Between the Public and Private Spheres

by Baker, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781840149364
• ISBN10: 1840149361
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Table of Contents

Figures	vii
Tables	viii
Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Abbreviations	xv
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Risking Difference: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries between the Public and Private Spheres	3	(32)
Susan Baker
PART II: GENDERED THOUGHT, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, AND POLICY NETWORKS
The Masculinity of Organizational Life	35	(22)
Celia Davies
Reframing the `Public' in Public Administration	57	(12)
Camilla Stivers
Women and Policy: the European Union Dimension	69	(24)
Liz Sperling
Charlotte Bretherton
PART III: WORK, WELFARE STATES, AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Work-Family Arrangements: the Role of the State versus the Role of the Private Sector	93	(18)
Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes
Comparative Childcare Policy and the Public-Private Divide	111	(24)
Vicky Randall
European Policies and Women's Rights in the United Kingdom	135	(20)
Elizabeth Meehan
Evelyn Collins
Welfare-State Reform and Equal Opportunities: the Case of the Netherlands	155	(20)
Janneke Plantenga
PART IV: HEALTH, REPRODUCTION, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Gender Dimensions of Occupational Health and Safety in Canada: the Case of Fetal Protection from Toxins in the Workplace	175	(20)
Therese Jennissen
Power, Policy, and Health: European Women's Perspectives on the Human Genome Analysis	195	(22)
Jalna Hanmer
Ineke Klinge
Women and the Planning Process in the Man-Made Environment in the Netherlands---Linkages and Policy Imperatives	217
Marijke van Schendelen
Liesbeth Ottes