The New Politics of Gender Equality - Couverture souple

Squires, Judith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0230007708 ISBN 13 : 9780230007703

Editeur : Palgrave, 2007

Synopsis

During the past decade governments around the globe have introduced institutional mechanisms to promote the advancement of women, including measures to increase women's political participation rates and to incorporate women's interests into policy-making. Why have they done so? How successful have these initiatives been? What are the emerging agendas facing gender equality advocates now?



In The New Politics of Gender Equality Judith Squires examines the origins, evolution and key features of three strategies that have been employed across the world in pursuit of gender equality – quotas, policy agencies and gender mainstreaming. The author critically examines each strategy to see how far they transform political institutions and agendas and to what extent they lead rather to the assimilation of women in male-defined structures. Squires argues that a multi-pronged approach, drawing on democratic rather than technocratic strategies, offers the best potential for advancing gender equality. She highlights too the limitations of approaches that ignore inequalities among women and the challenges of developing equality initiatives to address multiple and cross-cutting inequalities between groups.



Judith Squires is Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol. She has written, researched and published widely in the field of gender politics and gender equality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JUDITH SQUIRES is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0230007708
• ISBN 13: 9780230007703
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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