Towards a European Union gender equality index

Journal of European Social Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-33

  Plantenga, Janneke ^a   Remery, Chantal ^a   Figueiredo, Hugo ^b   Smith, Mark ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

European Union; Gender equality; Indices; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER ISSUE; MONITORING;

ASIA; CYPRUS; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; GREECE; ITALY; MALTA; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; SWEDEN;

EID: 58249135781     PISSN: 09589287     EISSN: 14617269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0958928708098521     Document Type: Article

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