Equality Governance via Policy Analysis? – The Implementation of Gender Impact Assessment in the European Union and Gender–Based Analysis in Canada

af Arn T. Sauer

Gender impact assessment has been both celebrated as a beacon of hope for the cause of gender equality and criticised as being ineffectual. More than 20 years of gender mainstreaming have demonstrated that equality governance with and through impact assessment is an intersectional and still evolving process.Arn T. Sauer's study examines the instruments of gendered policy analysis and the conditions under which they are being used by the Canadian federal government and the European Commission. In... (Læs mere)