Gender Policies in the European Union (Studies in European Union (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 1)

Foreword / Louise A. Tilly -- Introduction : The European Union's Gender Policies / Mariagrazia Rossilli -- From Equal Pay To Equal Employability : Four Decades Of European Gender Policies / Ilone Astner -- A Study Of Four Action Programmes On Equal Opportunities / Catherine Hoskyns -- Parity Democracy-law And Europe / Eliane Vogel-polsky -- Change In Women's Political Reprenenstation / Joni Lovenduski -- European Equality Legislation On Social Security / Julia Adiba Sohrab -- Gender, Flexibility, And New Employment Relations In The European Union / Francesca Bettia, Jill Rubery, And Mark Smith -- The Gender Perspective In The Policies Of European Trade Unions / Myriam Bergamaschi -- Sexual Harassment : The Impact Of Eu Law In The Member States / Jeanne Gregory -- The Implications Of European Union Policies For Non-eu Migrant Women / Eleonore Kofman And Rosemary Sales -- European Union Policies On Trafficking In Women / Marjan Wijers. Edited By Mariagrazia Rossilli ; Foreword By Louise A. Tilly. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [237]-257). Bevat: Introduction: the European Union's gender policies / door Mariagrazia Rossilli; From equal pay to equal employability: four decades of European gender policies / door Ilona Ostner; A study of four action programmes on equal opportunities / door Catherine Hoskyns; Parity democracy - law and Europe / door Eliane Vogel-Polsky; Change in women's political representation / door Joni Lovenduski; European equality legislation on social security / door Julia Adiba Sohrab; Gender, flexiblity, and new employment relations in the European Union / door Francesca Bettio, Jill Rubery en Mark Smith; The gender perspective in the policies of European trade unions / door Myriam Bergamaschi; Sexual harassment: the impact of EU law in the member states / door Jeanne Gregory; The implications of European Union policies for non-EU member states / door Eleonore Kofman en Rosemary Sales; European Union policies on trafficking in women / door Marjan Wijers 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 Communitys 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 womens rights, which exacerbates the European citizenship deficit and democratic deficit.