The Future of Gender Equality in the European Union

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The collection comprises a series of interdisciplinary perspectives upon the development of the principle of gender equality in the European Union. Situated within the context of debates on the EU's constitutional future, the collection explores current initiatives and future prospects for the promotion of gender equality as a matter of EU law, policy and practice. Drawing out the implications of constitutional change for women, the collection offers a gendered reading for the present constitutional debates ensuring that key questions about participation, representation, transparency, solidarity, citizenship, equality and the protection of fundamental rights do not go unexplored and unchallenged from a gender perspective.

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SUSAN MILLNS is a Reader in European Legal Studies at the University of Kent, UK, where she teaches courses in European Union Law and European Human Rights Law. Her research interests lie in the area of comparative public law, human rights and feminist legal theory. She is the Managing Editor of Feminist Legal Studies.
MERCEDES MATEO DIAZ is Junior Professional at the Inter-American Development Bank and holds a Mandat Honorifique FNRS (Fonds Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, Belgium) since December 2004. She has been a postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at the Robert Schumann Center, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Her research interests revolve around the fields of comparative politics, political representation, and institutional reform. She has made a number of significant contributions to edited works and to peer-reviewed journals. Her doctoral thesis entitled Representing Women Female Legislators in West European Parliaments has been recently published in the ECPR's monograph series.