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Gender Mainstreaming in the EU

Incorporating a Feminist Reading?

Emanuela Lombardo

Petra Meier

UNIVERSITY OF RADBOUD, NIJMEGEN, NETHERLANDS

This article explores the extent to which a feminist reading of gender mainstreaming is incorporated in the EU political discourse by analysing how family policy and gender inequality in politics are framed in EU policy documents. Gender mainstreaming is treated as an open signifier that can be filled with both feminist and non-feminist content. The article provides a set of criteria to assess whether a feminist reading of gender mainstreaming has been adopted. The frame analysis of EU documents on family policy and gender inequality in politics reveals but a partial adoption of a feminist understanding of gender mainstreaming and only in the area of gender inequality in politics.

Key Words: EU gender equality policies • family policies • feminist political theory • gender inequality in politics • gender mainstreaming • policy frame analysis

European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, 151-166 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1350506806062753
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