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.