List Books » Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union: Education, Training and Labour Market Policies
Authors: Teresa Rees
ISBN-13: 9780415115339, ISBN-10: 0415115337
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The EU has recently launched a framework for policy development in education, training and the labor market. While equal opportunity is identified as important in the model framework, Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union argues that the gendered nature of these fields is not incorporated into the analysis upon which the policies are based.
This book traces and critiques the record of the EU on equal opportunities from equal treatment, then positive action, through to the current agenda--mainstreaming equality. The author combines insights from feminist theory on conceptualizing equality, familiarity with Eurospeak and original research on the programs and projects of the Commission to offer an accessible, jargon-free account of the EU's attempts to encourage equal opportunities.
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Preface | ||
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1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | The context | 10 |
3 | Conceptualising equal opportunities | 26 |
4 | The European Union and equal opportunities | 49 |
5 | Key issues in women's education and training in the UK | 71 |
6 | Skill shortages, women, and training for the new information technologies | 94 |
7 | EC community action programmes on education and training | 120 |
8 | The European Social Fund and LEONARDO DA VINCI | 146 |
9 | Competitiveness, social exclusion and the learning society: EO and the White Papers | 169 |
10 | Mainstreaming equality? | 188 |
App. I | Directorates-General of the European Commission | 201 |
App. II | National Vocational Qualifications | 202 |
App. III | The Social Dialogue Joint Opinion on Women and Training | 203 |
App. IV | Equal treatment and positive action in LEONARDO DA VINCI: Guidelines for project promoters | 210 |
App. V | Examples of equal treatment, positive action and mainstreaming in LEONARDO DA VINCI projects | 212 |
Notes | 216 | |
Bibliography | 223 | |
Index | 247 |