Gendering politics and policy
Subtitle: recent developments in Europe, Latin America, and the United States
By: Heidi Hartmann, editor.
Contributors: Hartmann, Heidi I.
Publisher: Haworth Political Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780789030924; 9780789030931
Subjects: Women in politics -- Congresses; Women -- Government policy -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Journal of women, politics & policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers presented at the Seventh International Women's Policy Research Conference held in Washington, D.C. in 2003.
"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of women, politics, and policy, volume 27, numbers 1/2 2005."
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Heidi Hartmann; title: Governability and women's citizenship / Mercedes Barquet, Sandra Osses; title: Gender, presidential elections, and public policy : making women's votes matter / Barbara C. Burrell; title: Women's status and social capital in the United States / Amy Caiazza, Robert D. Putnam; title: Attacking first-time women candidates for Congress / Tanya Melich; title: Making policymakers more gender aware : experiences and reflections from the Women's Budget Group in the United Kingdom / Susan Himmelweit; title: How to make the law work? : budgetary implications of domestic violence laws in Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean / Dinys Luciano, Simel Esim, Nata Duvvury; title: Girl power, mainstreaming, and critical mass : women's leadership and policy paradigm shift in Germany's Red-Green Coalition, 1998-2002 / Joyce Mushaben; title: The Alliance for Jobs in Germany : the promise and failure of gender mainstreaming / Elisabeth vogelheim; title: Child care as a human right : a new perspective on an old debate / Martha F. Davis; title: Women's NGOs at UN conferences : the 1992 Rio Conference on the Environment as a watershed event / Mary P. Haney; title: Defending diversity, sustaining consensus : NGOs at the Beijing Women's Conference and beyond / Kristen Timothy.