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oapen-20.500.12657-753172023-08-10T02:39:31Z Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change Hellum, Anne Ikdahl, Ingunn Blaker Strand, Vibeke Svensson, Eva-Maria Anti-Discrimination Laws;Gender Gap Index;Legal developments in Sweden;Nordic Equality;World Economic Forum bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues 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. 2023-08-09T09:24:49Z 2023-08-09T09:24:49Z 2024 book 9781032001258 9781032001289 9781003172840 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75317 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000959444.pdf http://www.routledge.com Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003172840 10.4324/9781003172840 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb c273ec27-d2be-4f1d-8917-141b286f1657 9781032001258 9781032001289 9781003172840 Routledge 264 University of Oslo open access
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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.
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