Sökning: "Equal Opportunity Law"
Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Equal Opportunity Law.
1. Searching for Equality : Sex Discrimination, Parental Leave and the Swedish Model With Comparisons to EU, UK and US Law
Sammanfattning : Achieving economic equality between men and women is a challenge to every country. The approach taken politically and legally in Sweden is to encourage a greater economic independence of women from the family through paid work, as well encouraging men to assume a greater share of unpaid work, particularly parental leave, resulting in a lessening of the double burden of work for women. LÄS MER
2. Konstruktion av genus i rätten och samhället : en tvärvetenskaplig studie av svenska kvinnors rätt till jämställdhet i ett formellt jämlikt rättssystem
Sammanfattning : On the first of January 1992 the present Equal Opportunity Act came into force. A central aim of this law is to improve the conditions of women's working life. One aspect of the law is the possibility to serve as a mean of shifting the balance of power between the sexes. LÄS MER
3. The Europeanisation of gender equality : The unexpected case of Sweden
Sammanfattning : The main objective of this thesis is to analyse how the Swedish Equal Op-portunities Ombudsman (JämO) has used EU legislation as an opportunity for influencing the domestic policy process. Prior to Sweden’s membership in the EU, few pay-discrimination cases had been referred to the Labour Court, and none by JämO. LÄS MER