This book analyses the effects of public governance reforms on gender equality policy in Finland. Recent economic crises, rising austerity and increasing opposition to gender equality have led to the defunding of gender equality bodies, and the side-lining of gender equality as a political goal.
Anna Elomäki is Academy Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests include economic policies and governance, EU politics and gender equality policy. Hanna Ylöstalo is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Her research interests include knowledge-policy relations, welfare state reform and gender equality policy.
Chapter 1- Introduction: Governing Gender Equality Policy in Changing State.- Chapter 2- Theorising Shifting Public Governance from a Feminist Perspective.- Chapter 3- Strategic Governance and Gender Equality Policy.- Chapter 4- Workfare Reform and Family Leave Policy.- Chapter 5 - Economic Governance and Gender Budgeting.- Chapter 6 - Evidence-Based Policy and Feminist Knowledge.- Chapter 7- Conclusions.
Debra L. Dodson, Rutgers University) Dodson, Debra L. (Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics
Debra L. Dodson, Rutgers University) Dodson, Debra L. (Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics
Richard E. Matland, Kathleen A. Montgomery, Texas) Matland, Richard E. (, Department of Political Science, University of Houston, Illinois) Montgomery, Kathleen A. (, Department of Political Science, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Kathleen Montgomery, Richard Matland