Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change: Legal developments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland

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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)

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

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