Gender segregation and the European employment strategy: levels and divisions.
European Journal of Industrial Relations
2004
10
2
July
139-159
equal employment opportunity ; EU policy ; European employment strategy ; gender ; sexual division of labour
Employment
English
Bibliogr.
"Equal opportunities has constituted one of the four pillars of the European Employment Strategy (EES) as approved at the Luxembourg summit in 1997. However, there are tensions between the EES and the imperatives of budgetary restraint (which have caused job losses in public services, where women are disproportionately employed) and between quantitative targets of increasing women's labour-force participation and qualitative targets of overcoming gender segregation. This article explores these tensions, drawing evidence from comparative European research and the particular experience of Sweden."
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