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Title
Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change: Legal developments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland
Subject
Law
Description
The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index –but they have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards substantive equality in four Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. It presents the Nordic gender equality model’s systematic use of three measures: overarching gender policies, legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations, and gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low-threshold enforcement systems. What potentials and limitations do the Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes have to combat individual discrimination and structural inequality? Can these regimes function as a driver of political, legal, economic, cultural, and social change and as a corrective to laws, policies, and practices that uphold existing inequalities and, if so, to what extent? Can weaknesses in the equality and anti-discrimination laws and the way they are enforced hamper efforts to close remaining gender gaps? Rather than looking at the Nordic gender equality laws and policies in isolation, the book situates their development and transformative potential within a changing European and international political and legal landscape.
Creator
Hellum, Anne (editor); Ikdahl, Ingunn (editor); Blaker Strand, Vibeke (editor)
Svensson, Eva-Maria (editor)
Svensson, Eva-Maria (editor)
Source
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75317
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Date
2024
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Relation
10.4324/9781003172840
Format
Pdf
Language
English
Type
Textbooks
Identifier
9781032001258, 9781032001289, 9781003172840, 9781000959444