Sisterhood and Solidarity? Women's Organizations in the Expanded European Union

Bibliographic Data

ID12426329
AuthorsSolen Roth (0000-0002-8760-0505, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume14
Issue4
Pages460-487
Publication date2007-11-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sp/jxm019
OpenAlexW2078077522
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited12

European Union (EU) accession has been a highly ambivalent and contradictory process both for women's mobilization and networking, and the introduction of gender equality policies in the new member states. While EU membership gave women's NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe better access to EU institutions and EU funding, it also resulted in a loss of financial support from previous donors. Some, in general bigger, organizations benefited from these changes, whereas smaller groups now struggle. Furthermore, although accession offered women's movements political opportunities to put pressure on their governments, the adaptation to EU regulations is characterized by top-down reforms and the unequal compliance of national governments

Accession · Ambivalence · Business · Danish · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Gender equality · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Politics and Representation · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Gender Studies · Law

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