Gender and Family in European Economic Policy

1. Introduction: Rethinking Gender Equality Since the Turn of the Millennium
Diana Auth, Jutta Hergenhan, Barbara Holland-Cunz

Part I. Gender Equality in Europe

2. Can We Call It a Revolution? Women, the Labour Market, and European Policy
Francesca Bettio

Part II. Gender Equality in the Economic Sphere

3. Symbolic Policy Making for Gender Equality: Comparing the Use of Quotas for Civil Service and Corporate Boards in France and Germany
Sophie Rouault

4. Overcoming the Gender Pay Gap: Equal Pay Policies Implementation in France and the United Kingdom
Cécile Guillaume

5. Equal Pay by Gender and by Nationality: A Comparative Analysis of Switzerland’s Unequal Equal Pay Policy Regimes Across Time*
Roland Erne, Natalie Imboden

Part III. Gender Equality in the Realm of the Family

6. Reconciliation of Employment and Childcare in Austria, Germany and Iceland. Examples for Gender Equality in Family Life?
Sigrid Leitner

7. From Implicit to Explicit Familialism: Post-1989 Family Policy Reforms in Poland
Dorota Szelewa

8. Social Investment or Gender Equality? Aims, Instruments, and Outcomes of Parental Leave Regulations in Germany and Sweden
Diana Auth, Hanne Martinek

Part IV. Political Representation

9. The French Parity Law: A Successful Gender Equality Measure or a “Conservative Revolution”?
Catherine Achin

10. Political Representation of Women in Europe. What Accounts for the Increase in the 2000s?
Gesine Fuchs, Christine Scheidegger

11. Successes and Failures of Electoral Gender Quotas in a Global Perspective
Jutta Hergenhan

Part V. Conclusion

12. Targeted Measures Versus Change of Political Culture: How Can Gender Equality Best Be Achieved?
Barbara Holland-Cunz

13. Erratum to: From Implicit to Explicit Familialism: Post-1989 Family Policy Reforms in Poland
Dorota Szelewa

Nyckelord: Economics, Political Economy/Economic Policy, Social Policy, Cultural Economics, Gender Studies