Although European policy initiatives to advance the position of women in Academia (and especially in science) have proliferated, both at national and EU levels, serious inequities of many kinds remain. This situation is exposed and investigated in this outstanding book, which presents reports and discussions from a two-day conference held at the Law Faculty of Lund University in December 2004. The participants and#8211; law professors and social scientists and#8211; present detailed reports on domestic experiences and regulations in eight European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary,...

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the social dimension of the European Union during the last decade: labor law, social security law, and family law in both the EU and its Member States. The book does this from a wide range of theoretical and legal-substantive perspectives. The past decade has witnessed the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty and its emphasis on fundamental rights, a new coordination regulation within the field of social security (Regulation 883/2004/EC), and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the so-called Laval Quartet....

In this age of e DEGREES-flexiblee DEGREES-- labour practices, where non-discrimination laws have become the major bulwark protecting individual employees, the ban on age discrimination is assuming greater prominence and complexity. Unlike other targets of non-discrimination law, age arguably remains a defensible social stratifier, and various institutional and structural determinants are of the utmost importance in understanding and assessing labour marketrelated age differences.