Women and Public Policy

Susan Baker, Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes

• Part 1. Introduction. 1. Risking Difference: Reconceptualizing the Boundaries between the Public and Private Spheres. Susan Baker. Part 2. Gendered Thought, Public Administration, and Policy Networks. 1. The Masculinity of Organizational Life. Celia Davies. 2. Reframing the ‘Public’ in Public Administration. Camilla Stivers. 3. Women and Policy: the European Union Dimension. Liz Sperling and Charlotte Bretherton. Part 3. Work, Welfare States, and Equal Opportunities. 4. Work-Family Arrangements: the Role of the State versus the Role of the Private Sector. Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes. 5. Comparative Childcare Policy and the Public-Private Divide. Vicky Randall. 6. European Policies and Women’s Rights in the United Kingdom. Elizabeth Meehan and Evelyn Collins. 7. Welfare-State Reform and Equal Opportunities: the Case of the Netherlands. Janneke Plantenga. Part 4. Health, Reproduction, and the Environment. 8. Gender Dimensions of Occupational Health and Safety in Canada: the Case of Fetal Protection from Toxins in the Workplace. Therese Jennissen. 9. Power, Policy, and Health: European Womens’ Perspectives on the Human Genome Analysis. Jalna Hanmer and Ineke Klinge. 10. Women and the Planning Process in the Man-Made Environment in the Netherlands – Linkages and Policy Imperatives. Marijke van Schendelen and Liesbeth Ottes.