Nordic Gender Equality Policy in a Europeanisation Perspective - 9780367367459

Taylor & Francis

Nordic Gender Equality Policy in a Europeanisation PerspectiveAuthor(s): Knut Drum\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367367459, 978-0367367459\nSynopsis\nThis book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role Nordic countries have played as exporters and importers of gender equality policies, and of how Europeanisation has framed the development and harmonisation of legislation and politics between the countries, with global consequences.\n\nThe diverse range of contributors present the argument that the European Union increasingly exerts influence on Nordic equality policy, without undermining the recent significance of the Nordic countries gender policy as models for countries all over the world . It demonstrates that differentiation and variation at national and regional levels in the Nordic countries, as well as in Europe in general, matter as much as integrational processes and inner adaptation to EU legisl.