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Record Nr.

UNINA9910736100803321

Autore

Hellum Anne

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2023

Milton : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2023

©2024

ISBN

9781000959468

1000959465

9781003172840

1003172849

9781000959444

1000959449

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages)

Classificazione

LAW000000

Altri autori (Persone)

IkdahlIngunn

StrandVibeke Blaker

SvenssonEva-Maria

Disciplina

342.48970878

Soggetti

Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - Finland

Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - Iceland

Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - Norway

Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - Sweden

Sex role - Finland

Sex role - Iceland

Sex role - Norway

Sex role - Sweden

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface Notes on contributors Introduction: Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination laws in the throes of change ANNE HELLUM, INGUNN IKDAHL, VIBEKE BLAKER STRAND, ÅSA GUNNARSSON, AND EVA-MARIA SVENSSON 1 Sweden: From proactive policies to anti-discrimination law ÅSA GUNNARSSON, LENA SVENAEUS, AND EVA-



MARIA SVENSSON 2 Paradoxes in Finnish gender equality law and policies KEVÄT NOUSIAINEN 3 Between norms and institutions: Unlocking the transformative potential of Norwegian equality and anti-discrimination law ANNE HELLUM, INGUNN IKDAHL, AND VIBEKE BLAKER STRAND 4 The potential of Icelandic gender equality legislation BRYNHILDUR G. FLÓVENZ Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.