The New Politics of Gender Equality

Name: The New Politics of Gender Equality
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Judith Squires

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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.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 216
Release Date:: 2007-09-11
Publication Date:: 2007-09-11
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0230007694
ISBN13:: 9780230007697
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 493 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 16 cm

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