Does equality imply the same treatment of men and women? Or is different treatment needed to ensure equal levels of autonomy for both sexes?
By discussing equality in specific contexts such as welfare, pregnancy, child custody, protective legislation and employment, the contributors to this volume provide powerful insights into both the analytic concept of equality and strategies for devising, implementing and evaluating public policy. The book presents a convincing case for moving beyond the dichotomy of equality/difference by adopting a contextual approach.
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`the papers are well argued and informative, covering both conceptual and policy issues, several European countries and several policy initiatives. The book is thus a valuable resource for scholars in theory and empirical research, as well as for students. It is interesting for political theorists in that it focuses away from the often much too abstractly discussed question of whether women should insist on their equality with, or difference from, men, on the critique of this seemingly exclusive dichotomy and on more specific conceptual issues and policy initiatives and their outcomes' - Political Studies
`The book's greatest strength, constituting its contribution to the field, is its inclusion of analyses of equality of opportunity in a variety of political and economic systems; it thus illuminates the varying conceptualizations of equality.' - Choice
`stimulating... breaks new ground in raising serious theoretical, legal and policy questions about the interpretation and use of the concept of equality in the treatment of women....of timely interest to feminist activists and theorists....should prove enlightening for advanced students and researchers' - Canadian Journal of Political Science
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Elizabeth Meehan is Professor in the Department of Politics at the Queen's University of Belfast, where she is also the Jean Monnet Professor of European Social Policy. Elizabeth Meehan is the author of Women's Rights at Work (1985), co-author of Feminism and Political Theory (1986) and co-editor of Equality Politics and Gender (1991). Elizabeth Meehan is Chair of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
Problems in Principles and Policies - Elizabeth Meehan and Selma Sevenhuijsen
PART ONE: POLITICAL THEORY AND LEGAL DISCOURSE
Equal Opportunity - Ian Forbes
Radical, Liberal and Conservative Critiques
Conceptions of Gender Equality - Tuija Parvikko
Similarity and Difference
Equality, Autonomy and Feminist Politics - Jet Bussemaker
Pregnancy, the Law and the Meaning of Equality - Carol Bacchi
Justice, Moral Reasoning and the Politics of Child Custody - Selma Sevenhuijsen
PART TWO: POLITICAL PROCESSES AND PUBLIC POLICIES
Is This What We Wanted? Positive Action as Issue Perversion - Joyce Outshoorn
Agendas and - Amy Mazur
Egalite Professionelle
Symbolic Policy at Work in France
Jennifer Jarman
The Repeal of Protective Legislation - Equality or Marginalization
Evelyn Mahon
Birte Siim - Women and Equality in the Irish Civil Service
Women's Citizenship in the Scandinavian Welfare States - Welfare State, Gender Politics and Equality Policies