Gender Equality Aspects of Public Law

[Men, health and public policies: gender equality in question].

The scope of this article is to pose questions on the theme of Men, Health and Public Policies to render debate on the subject viable, based on theoretical and empirical references related to these issues. Initially, some historical landmarks on the theme are presented to provide guidelines for debate. An overview of the gender agenda in public policies is then presented to introduce the discus...

[On "Men, health and public policies: gender equality in question"].

Sobre " Homens, saúde e políticas públicas: a equidade de gênero em questão " On " Men, health and public policies: gender equality in question " Marcos Nascimento 4 Sergio Carrara 5 No artigo produzido por Maria Thereza Couto (USP) e Romeu Gomes (Fiocruz), os autores bus-cam problematizar a articulação entre saúde e políti-cas públicas, com foco específico na saúde dos ho-mens e suas implicaçõ...

Religion, Politics and Gender Equality Public Religions Revisited

Gender Politics and Public Policy Making: Prospects for Advancing Gender Equality

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a re-envisioning of gender politics in public policy making by applying a new approach to understanding them. Our approach is based on, and illustrated by, a study of gender dynamics in policy-making processes in the NSW public sector in Australia. The study draws on theoretical developments in the sociological study of gender arrangements in large orga...

Gender Equality and Democracy

Although democratic institutions existed long before gender equality, at this point in history, growing emphasis on gender equality is a central component of the process of democratization. Support for gender equality is not just a consequence of democratization. It is part of a broad cultural change that is transforming industrialized societies and bringing growing mass demands for increasingl...