Gender-sensitive and women-friendly public policies: a comparative analysis and assessment of their progress and impact

Objective

The research concerns public policies and policy-making and in particular "women-friendly" policy approaches. The aim is to identify how the integration of a gender dimension in policy formulation and design is proceeding across the Community and how it serves to improve the impact of these policies. Empirical research will be carried out, in nine European countries, on three main policy areas, which are priorities within the European Social Policy Agenda:
1) income distribution, in particular tax and welfare policies;
2) education, in particular on skills and qualifications in the knowledge society; and
3) social integration, particularly of immigrants and ethnic minority people. The "value-added" of integrating gender into policy will be explored and substantiated, not just in terms of the relative well being of women and men and the reduction of gender inequalities, but also in regard to how it acts to alter policy making itself.

Fields of science

• social sciences › political sciences › political policies › public policies
• social sciences › sociology › social issues › social inequalities › gender inequality
• social sciences › sociology › governance › taxation
• social sciences › sociology › demography › human migrations

Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Topic(s)

• 1.4.1.-4. - Key action Socio-Economic Knowledge Base

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES

Address

Leoforos Syggrou 134
17671 Athens
Greece

Participants (4)

LAW UNIVERSITY OF LITHUANIA

Lithuania

Address

Ateities Street, 20
2057 Vilnius

LULEAA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Sweden

Address

971 87 Lulea

THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST

United Kingdom

Address

College Park East 2
BT7 1NN Belfast

UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES

Belgium

Address

50,avenue F.d. Roosevelt 50
1050 Bruxelles