Format:
Online-Ressource (282 p)
ISBN:
9780708322680
Series Statement:
Gender Studies in Wales
Content:
This book assesses how policies developed by the National Assembly for Wales are affecting gender inequalities and investigates whether they are having an impact on social justice for women in Wales. In 1999 the first elections to devolved governments took place in Scotland and Wales. In Wales this resulted in 40 per cent of Assembly Members being women. In 2003 this proportion increased to 50 per cent which makes the National Assembly for Wales 'the first legislative body with equal numbers of men and women in the world' (""The Guardian"", 3/5/03). This new gender balance of political represe
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Tables and Figures; Glossary; Notes on Contributors; Setting the Scene: Devolution, Gender Politics andSocial Justice; Delivery or Déjà Vu? Gender Mainstreaming andPublic Policy in Post-devolution Wales; Gender and Political Representation: Views fromthe Grass Roots; Devolution, Gender and Childcare: A DistinctiveAgenda for Wales?; Developing a Domestic Abuse Strategy; Mainstreaming Across the Equality Dimensions:Policy on Sexual Orientation in Wales; Making the World New? Education in Post-devolutionWales; Gendered Housing Policy: Women, Housing andHomelessness
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The Material Resources of Older Women in Walesand Welsh Assembly Government Policy ResponsesDevolution and Welsh Language Policy: A GenderDimension?; The Future; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780708322697
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780708322680
Additional Edition:
Print version Gender and Social Justice in Wales
Language:
English
Keywords:
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