Gender Policies in the European Union

by Rossilli, Mariagrazia; Tilly, Louise A.

• ISBN13: 9780820445083
• ISBN10: 0820445088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

An interdisciplinary group of European feminist scholars critically explores the European gender policies from the founding of the European Community to the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam. They offer different interpretations of the contradiction between the exceptional development of gender equality policy within Community social policy and actual gender inequality. Analysis of the EU policies on the equality of women reveals their central role in the making of the common market and the Community's modernizing action to reform employment patterns and welfare systems. From different, and at times contrasting, feminist perspectives, the contributors propose new policies to challenge the current situation and overcome the EU juridical defect in women's rights, which exacerbates the European « citizenship deficit and « democratic deficit.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: The European Union's Gender Policies	p. 1
From Equal Pay to Equal Employability: Four Decades of European Gender Policies	p. 25
A Study of Four Action Programmes on Equal Opportunities	p. 43
Parity Democracy--Law and Europe	p. 61
Change in Women's Political Representation	p. 87
European Equality Legislation on Social Security	p. 107
Gender, Flexibility, and New Employment Relations in the European Union	p. 123
The Gender Perspective in the Policies of European Trade Unions	p. 159
Sexual Harassment: the Impact of EU Law in the Member States	p. 175
The Implications of European Union Policies for Non-EU Migrant Women	p. 193
European Union Policies on Trafficking in Women	p. 209
Appendix	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 237
Notes on Contributors	p. 259
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