EU Equality Commitments and Shifting Meanings of Gender Equality

EU Equality Commitments and Shifting Meanings of Gender Equality

This article follows the development of a European Union gender equality regime through three broad periods: equal treatment policies, positive action measures, and Gender Mainstreaming. The policy-making process entails conflict between competing policy frames; unequal resources behind each secures the dominance of an economic frame. Strategical framing practices have been employed by equality advocates to overcome this disadvantage. This article traces the gradual shifts in meaning within each period until equality goals are integrated into the dominant economic policy frame. It concludes that equality advocates need to engage in deeper analyses of power in order to sustain attention to equality goals over longer periods of time.
 
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Black, Erin J.

Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies; 2009: RERA V5:1 Fall 2009 (backfile abstracts)

2562-8429

10.22215/cjers.v5i1

Centre for European Studies, Carleton University

2009-08-01

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Peer-reviewed Article