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EU social and gender policy beyond Brexit: towards the European Pillar of Social Rights

Plomien, Ania ORCID: 0000-0001-5883-2297 (2018) EU social and gender policy beyond Brexit: towards the European Pillar of Social Rights. Social Policy and Society, 17 (2). pp. 281-296. ISSN 1474-7464

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Identification Number: 10.1017/S1474746417000471

Abstract

The analysis of EU level social and gender policies highlights uneven developments and concerns over the EU as not (always) beneficial to social progress and gender equality. The EU, although primarily market driven, has developed a range of social policies, with gender equality enjoying a long-standing status as EU's founding value, dating back to the 1957 principle of equal pay for equal work. Yet, sixty years later, social justice objectives and equality between women and men remain to be realised. Social and gender themes have been revived by the proposal to develop the European Pillar of Social Rights, the shaping and implementing of which post-Brexit UK will not take part in. This initiative entails some meaningful developments for social and gender progress. However, its current form and content represents an adjustment to, rather than a transformation of, the unequal European economy and society.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-pol...
Additional Information: © 2018 Cambridge University Press
Divisions: Gender Studies
Subjects: J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited: 05 Jan 2018 13:34
Last Modified: 01 Apr 2024 08:09
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86382

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