Making women count

"Making Women Count presents international, interdisciplinary accounts of the strategies adopted by a range of European states, to promote gender equality through law and policy-making. In a series of contributions from national experts, the book provides the legal and political background of the particular state under scrutiny as well as an analysis of its laws, policies and machinery for promoting gender equality. The concluding chapters draw on this information to evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of strategies, including recent mainstreaming initiatives which are seen as offering potential advantages over previous generations of equality measures."--Jacket.