Gender Equality and Public Policy by Paola Profeta PAPERBACK 9781108437462

Gender Equality and Public Policy\nby Paola Profeta\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Paola Profeta\nTitle: Gender Equality and Public Policy\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Gender studies: women and girls\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781108437462\nISBN-10: 110843746X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDespite formal UN and European Commission commitments to improve gender imbalances, progress towards gender equality in wealth and pay has progressed at a discouragingly slow pace in recent decades. European countries have been more proactive in their support for corrective policies, such as family leave and gender quotas for corporate boards, yet measuring the effectiveness of these policies has proven difficult. This book offers a c.