Download or read book Gendered Policies in Europe written by Linda Hantrais and published by Palgrave MacMillan Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the policy-making process, focusing on the shifts in equal opportunities legislation towards measures to help parents combine employment and family life. The authors track the inputs of member states and pressure groups to European policy formation and analyze outputs and outcomes at national levels as they impact on gender issues in law and practice. They draw on examples of the implementation of reconciliation policies to illustrate how the policy process operates in different national contexts.