Citation

Walby S. Soc. Polit. 2004; 11(1): 4-29.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Swedish Council for Social Research, Publisher Oxford University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The implications of the development of the European Union for gender equality are analyzed through an assessment of the development of a path-dependent form of the gender regime in the EU. Two issues underpin this analysis, one concerning the theorization of gender relations, the second concerning the nature of EU powers. The analysis of gender inequality requires more than a simple scale of inequalities and additionally requires the theorization of the extent and nature of the interconnections between different dimensions of the gender regime. The powers of the EU are extending beyond the narrowly economic in complex ways.