policies, culture and public opinion
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lomazzi, Vera
- Creator
- Crespi, Isabella
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- WER 1M 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- gender mainstreaming, gelijke behandeling, gelijke beloning, wetgeving, politiek, cultuur, 21e eeuw, Europa, statistiek
- Description
- This book provides a systematic scientific overview of gender mainstreaming in Europe. It recalls the main steps of the origins and the development of the European gender mainstreaming (GM) strategy. The book also connects this framework with the current situation of gender equality and explores the strength and weak points of the strategy. To do so, it provides a critical evaluation of the instruments used to measure gender equality and explores how societal aspects, such as the opportunity structure defined by work-family balance policies and practices, affect the individual values of gender equality supporting the development of gender egalitarian cultures. Further, it develops an outline of the current and future challenges of the gender mainstreaming strategy, that run in parallel with the general European Union’s challenges, such as the integration process, economic crisis, migration and refugees crisis, and the rise of right-wing Euroscepticism. In addition, the current problem of conceptualizing gender equality in different ways leading to jeopardized results.