Gender Mainstreaming - An Innovation in Europe? The Institutionalisation of Gender Mainstreaming in the European Commission.(Recent books)(Book review)

From: International Labour Review | Date: December 22, 2006 | Copyright information

Gender mainstreaming--an innovation in Europe? The institutionalisation of gender mainstreaming in the European Commission. By Verena SCHMIDT. Opladen, Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2005. 271 pp. ISBN 3-938094-28-1.

Gender mainstreaming is an applied strategy for ensuring that the effects on both women and men are systematically considered in policy formulation and organizational processes. This approach--commonly described as a new paradigm by comparison with previously used ...