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This comprehensive collection brings together key academics, activists and practitioners to review the changing politics of the 'project' of gender equality. It gives an account of the evolution of gender equality policies and practice at different levels of governance in Britain over the past three decades. Thinking and working around equal opportunities have been fundamentally shaped by changing political conditions. Written during the period of the Labour government of 1997-2001 - itself a time of social and constitutional change - the contributors provide both a rich and stimulating account of the recent past and the fluid present, and offer a provocative set of predictions and prescriptions about the future. The collection first discusses equal opportunities within a national or supra-national context. It next examines the dynamics of resistance and change in public sector organizations before moving on to offer practitioner insight and experience of gender equality politics and practice in local government. The book argues that complex understandings of equality need to be taken into the political arena in such a way that they can be better understood and equality more fully realized.
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Esther Breitenbach is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh and is currently on secondment to the Women and Equality Unit in the Cabinet Office. She is co-editor of Women and Contemporary Scottish Politics: An Anthology.
Alice Brown is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Governance of Scotland Forum. She is co-editor of New Scotland, New Politics? and The Scottish Electorate: The 1997 General Election and Beyond.
Fiona Mackay is Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She is co-editor of Women and Contemporary Scottish Politics: An Anthology.
Janette Webb is Reader in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. She is co-author of Organizational Change and the Management of Expertise.
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The beginning of the twenty-first century is an appropriate time to reflect on the progress that has been made towards gender equality and to consider the prospects for further advancement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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equal opportunities project, equalities practitioners, equality practitioners, equalities staff, mainstreaming gender equality, equality activists, mainstreaming equal opportunities, mainstreaming equality, equal opportunities agenda, equalities agenda, positive action measures, mainstreaming approach, equality agencies, equality policies, equalities strategies, equality agenda, equality project, equality initiatives, equalities work, multiple discrimination, equality dimensions, equality unit, modernisation agenda, equality issues, equality legislation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union: Education, Training and Labour Market Policies by Teresa Rees on 5 pages
- Formal Equal Opportunities Policies and Employment Best Practice (Research series: 69) by Nick Jewson on 4 pages
- Education and Employment by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development on 4 pages
- In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations by Cynthia Cockburn on 4 pages
- Scotland Forum: No 7 July 1998 by Office Stationery in Front Matter, page 19, and page 213
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