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    Defending Women's Rights in Europe

    Gender Equality and EU Enlargement

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    Avdeyeva, Olga A.
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Comparative analysis of gender equality reforms enacted in ten post-communist states who became members of the European Union.Between 2004 and 2007, ten post-communist Eastern European states became members of the European Union (EU). To do so, these nations had to meet certain EU accession requirements, including antidiscrimination reforms. While attaining EU membership was an incredible achievement, many scholars and experts doubted the sustainability of accession-linked reforms. Would these nations comply with EU directives on gender equality? To explore this question, Defending Women’s Rights in Europe presents a unique analysis of detailed original comparative data on state compliance with EU gender equality requirements. It features a comprehensive quantitative analysis combined with rigorous insightful case studies of reforms in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania. Olga A. Avdeyeva reveals that policy and institutional reforms developed furthest in those states where women’s advocacy NGOs managed to form coalitions with governing political parties. After becoming members of the EU, the governments did not abolish these policies and institutions despite the costs and lack of popular support. Reputational concerns prevented state elites from policy dismantling, but gender equality policies and institutions became marginalized on the state agenda after accession.Olga A. Avdeyeva is Associate Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46256
    Keywords
    Technology & Engineering; Agriculture; Political Science; Public Policy; Social Policy; Social Science; Women's Studies
    DOI
    10.1353/book.83874
    ISBN
    9781438455938
    Publisher
    State University of New York Press
    Publisher website
    http://www.sunypress.edu/
    Publication date and place
    2015
    Imprint
    SUNY Press
    Series
    SUNY Press Open Access,
    Classification
    Agriculture and farming
    Central / national / federal government policies
    Gender studies: women and girls
    Pages
    286
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • If not noted otherwise all contents are available under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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