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Article: Gender, policy, politics, and work: feminist comparative and transnational research.
- Article from:
- The Review of Policy Research
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the rise of new policies, ranging from equal opportunities and parental and family leave to regulation of working time and sexual relations, that have made the workplace more hospitable to women workers. The collected articles explore the dynamics and determinants, both national and supranational, of such feminist policy formation and its impacts. This symposium contributes to comparative and transnational research on workplace policy, politics, and the state, using feminist perspectives.
A relatively new area of comparative policy research centers around regionalization and globalization of policy formation and ...