Gender and Family in European Economic Policy: Developments in the New Millennium

ISBN-13: 9783319415123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 267 str.

Diana Auth; Jutta Hergenhan; Barbara Holland-Cunz

Opis

Equal pay policies, parental leave reforms, corporate quotas and electoral quotas have raised pressing questions about the effectiveness in promoting equal participation, as researchers quote both quantitative improvement in gender diversity and qualitative lag in cultural change.

Recenzje

"This collection of essays offers a timely account of a range of gender- and family- related policies in a number of EU Member States. ... Across the various chapters there is a great depth of information, and the book provides some very interesting insights into the case studies presented. One key theme that emerges across all chapters, is the role of culture in achieving or hampering the movement towards gender equality." (Muireann O'Dwyer, Journal of Common Market Studies JCMS, Vol. 56 (2), March, 2018)

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Re-Thinking Gender Equality since the Turn of the Millennium; Diana Auth, Jutta Hergenhan, Barbara Holland-Cunz

PART I: GENDER EQUALITY IN EUROPE

2. Can We Call it a Revolution? Women, the Labor Market, and European Policy; Francesca Bettio

PART II: GENDER EQUALITY IN THE ECONOMIC SPHERE

3. Symbolic Policymaking for Gender Equality: Comparing the Use of Quotas for Civil Services and Corporate Boards in France and Germany; Sophie Rouault

4. Overcoming the Gender Pay Gap: Equal Pay Policies Implementation in France and the United Kingdom; Cécile Guillaume

5. Equal Pay by Gender and by Nationality: A Comparative Analysis of Switzerland’s Unequal Equal Pay Policy Regimes across Time; Roland Erne, Natalie Imboden

PART III: GENDER EQUALITY IN THE REALM OF THE FAMILY

6. Reconciliation of Employment and Childcare in Austria, Germany, and Iceland: Examples for Gender Equality in Family Life?; Sigrid Leitner

7. From Implicit to Explicit Familialism: Post-1989 Family Policy Reforms in Poland; Dorota Szelewa

8. Social Investment or Gender Equality? Aims, Instruments and Outcomes of Parental Leave Regulations in Germany and Sweden; Diana Auth, Hanne Martinek

PART IV: POLITICAL REPRESENTATION

9. The French Parity Law: A Successful Gender Equality Measure or a “Conservative Revolution”?; Catherine Achin

10. Political Representation of Women in Europe: What Accounts for the Increase in the 2000s?; Gesine Fuchs, Christine Scheidegger

11. Successes and Failures of Electoral Gender Quotas in a Global Perspective; Jutta Hergenhan

PART V: CONCLUSION

12. Targeted Measures versus Change of Political Culture: How can Gender Equality Best be Achieved?; Barbara Holland-Cunz

O autorze

Diana Auth is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Her main research areas are comparative welfare state research, gender studies, elderly care research and social gerontology, and policy analysis.

Jutta Hergenhan is a Berlin-based political scientist. She is a researcher, lecturer, scientific translator, and editor. From 2012 to 2015, she was the executive director of the Research Group for Gender Studies at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Her main research areas are gender and politics, language and gender, and transformation processes in the Mediterranean area.

Barbara Holland-Cunz is Professor of Political Sciences, with a primary focus on gender studies, and Head of the Research Group for Gender Studies at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Her main research areas are political theory; women's movements, equality policy, and political participation; and the theory and sociology of science and nature.

Contributors

Catherine Achin, Paris Dauphine University, France

Francesca Bettio, University of Siena, Italy 

Roland Erne, University College Dublin, Ireland

Gesine Fuchs, Independent Researcher, Switzerland

Cécile Guillaume, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Natalie Imboden, Unia, Switzerland

Sigrid Leitner, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Hanne Martinek, Uppsala University, Sweden

Sophie Rouault, Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Christine Scheidegger, Independent Researcher, Switzerland

Dorota Szelewa, University of Warsaw, Poland

Blurb

This collection explores how pioneering gender equality policies have shaped women's economic presence in Europe since 2000. Equal pay policies, parental leave reforms, corporate quotas and electoral quotas have raised pressing questions about the effectiveness in promoting equal participation, as researchers quote both quantitative improvement in gender diversity and qualitative lag in cultural change. The chapters in this book present interlocking cross-national and cross-policy comparisons of the three most controversial reforms: equal pay, parental leave, and quotas for political representatives. The contributors address the cultural context in which reforms arose, internally contradictory policies, and the relative effectiveness of fast-track quotas and incentives compared to long-term efforts to change the overall culture of gender. This critical examination of the new millennium's groundbreaking gender policies will appeal to academics and practitioners interested in the progress of gender equality in the economic, political, and social welfare fields.