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The Promotion of Employment and Earning Opportunity of Women in Europe through Gender Mainstreaming. With Special Emphasis on Austria

The European Union has developed a complex strategy and policy coordination process to promote gender equality in all community policies through "gender mainstreaming". While every member country has to promote the policy objective of gender equality, the instruments implemented to that end may differ. Different institutional structures and gender roles in the society may result in different outcomes of the same policy measure. Therefore every country has to choose those instruments best fitted to achieve gender equality. This paper outlines the various positions of the individual member countries relative to gender relations, with a special emphasis on Austria. Overall, it is the state and public sector institutions which tend to take a lead in implementing affirmative action programmes, in the main positive discrimination of women (quota regulations, targets) and enforcement of antidiscrimination legislation. Affirmative action programmes in private industry are not a universal feature in all EU countries. While gender equality is pursued as a moral issue in its own right, it is also an instrument to combat the negative impact of ageing of the European populations on welfare budgets and economic growth.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: WIFO Working Papers ; No. 319

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Gender Mainstreaming
equal opportunity
gender gap
models of social organisation
outsourcing of household production
gender segregation
Gleichstellungspolitik
EU-Recht
Weibliche Arbeitskräfte
Lohnstruktur
Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung
Familie-Beruf
Soziale Ungleichheit
Ehe
Österreich
EU-Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Biffl, Gudrun
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
(wo)
Vienna
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Biffl, Gudrun
  • Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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