Gender Mainstreaming Strategies in the E.U.: Delivering on an Agenda?

摘要: Recent years have witnessed the emergence of anew policy style within E.U., characterized by voluntary transfer between member states and soft instruments including exchange best practice, targets, benchmarking national league tables. This article examines how these methods been used gender mainstreaming advocates evaluates impact this strategy to-date upon E.U. policy-making procedures outputs. It is argued that has provided new opportunities for feminists to influence agenda, but varies sectors states. The concluding section considers implications from perspective European Women's Lobby(E.W.L.). discussion highlights potential risks mainstreaming.