Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Gender Equality Since the Turn of the Millennium

Chapter 2 Can We Call It a Revolution? Women, the Labour Market, and European Policy

Chapter 3 Symbolic Policy Making for Gender Equality: Comparing the Use of Quotas for Civil Service and Corporate Boards in France and Germany

Chapter 4 Overcoming the Gender Pay Gap: Equal Pay Policies Implementation in France and the United Kingdom

Chapter 5 Equal Pay by Gender and by Nationality: A Comparative Analysis of Switzerland’s Unequal Equal Pay Policy Regimes Across Time*

Chapter 6 Reconciliation of Employment and Childcare in Austria, Germany and Iceland. Examples for Gender Equality in Family Life?

Chapter 7 From Implicit to Explicit Familialism: Post-1989 Family Policy Reforms in Poland

Chapter 8 Social Investment or Gender Equality? Aims, Instruments, and Outcomes of Parental Leave Regulations in Germany and Sweden

Chapter 9 The French Parity Law: A Successful Gender Equality Measure or a “Conservative Revolution”?

Chapter 10 Political Representation of Women in Europe. What Accounts for the Increase in the 2000s?

Chapter 11 Successes and Failures of Electoral Gender Quotas in a Global Perspective

Chapter 12 Targeted Measures Versus Change of Political Culture: How Can Gender Equality Best Be Achieved?