Comparing feminist policy in politics and at work in France and Germany: Shared European Union setting, divergent national contexts

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 365-384

  Mazur, Amy G ^a   Zwingel, Susanne ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMINISM; POLICY DEVELOPMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GERMANY; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0346327381     PISSN: 02784416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1541-1338.00026     Document Type: Article

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