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35.1 Introduction 35.1 Introduction
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35.2 What is Gender? 35.2 What is Gender?
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35.3 Gender and Public Discourse: Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus 35.3 Gender and Public Discourse: Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus
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35.4 Equality Frames and Policy Directions 35.4 Equality Frames and Policy Directions
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35.5 The Policy Approaches and Institutional Politics of Gender Equality 35.5 The Policy Approaches and Institutional Politics of Gender Equality
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35.6 Gender Equality: The Institutional Terrain 1970s–90s 35.6 Gender Equality: The Institutional Terrain 1970s–90s
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35.7 1980s and 1990s: Gender Equality Policy in a Cold Climate 35.7 1980s and 1990s: Gender Equality Policy in a Cold Climate
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35.8 Gender Equality Politics in Post‐1997 Britain 35.8 Gender Equality Politics in Post‐1997 Britain
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35.9 Conclusions and New Directions 35.9 Conclusions and New Directions
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35 Gender
Get accessFiona Mackay is Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh and Director of genderED.
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Published:02 January 2010
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Abstract
This article outlines the contested concepts of gender equality and debates within feminist scholarship. It then contrasts these complex understandings with the impoverished conceptions of gender and equality in public and political discourse and argues that there is a need for a common language of gender. In addition, the article describes a range of British and comparative literature to survey and contextualize political and institutional developments over three decades. There have been fundamental changes to gender relations in Britain since the 1970s, as evidenced by the transformation in the status and roles of women. The current trajectory in the UK is one of an evolution from gender mainstreaming to equality and diversity mainstreaming as the predominant approach to the management of equalities issues. The Equalities Review has argued that new, more applicable accounts of equality are needed, and a political and public consensus on equality.
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