In a context of economic and budgetary crisis, this book presents a long-term analysis of the transformations of EU gender equality. It analyses the mechanisms

In theory, the EU’s ‘Gender Mainstreaming’ policy should mark it out as a trail-blazer in gender equality, but gender equality activists in Europe confron

In a context of economic and budgetary crisis, this book presents a long-term analysis of the transformations of EU gender equality. It analyses the mechanisms

Explains the adoption, diffusion of, and resistance to gender quotas in politics, corporate boards and public administration across Europe.

This book focuses on developments in the welfare states of the ten Central and Eastern European EU member states in the transformation process some 20 years aft