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Research frontiers in comparative gender equality policy: contributions from the study of equal employment policy practice in France and Canada

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The first goal of this special issue is to showcase francophone cutting-edge research on the implementation and practice of gender equality policy that uses qualitative tools of comparison in the analysis of equal employment policy implementation in France and Canada, including Quebec. Its second goal is to highlight the methodological and theoretical contributions the articles in the special issue make to research and theory-building on gender equality policy inside and outside of France. Ultimately, therefore, the special issue aims to advance the larger scholarly agenda of Comparative Gender Equality Policy Studies, a new international field of study within the purview of policy studies and political science.

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Notes

  1. For more on the Institute and the 2016 Conference go to http://www.institutemilieduchatelet.org/colloques-2?y=2016. Many thanks are due to the IEC for providing the funding for the translation of the four articles as well as to Sylvie Blumenkrantz, the General Secretary of the Institut Emilie du Châtelet, for the precious help she has given us all along in producing this special issue.

  2. The team included Jacqueline Laufer, a sociologist, Yannick L’Horty, an economist, Catherine Louveau, a sociologist from STAPS, Frédérique Pigeyre, a specialist in management science, Florence Rochefort, a historian, Daniel Sabbagh, a political scientist, Patrick Simon, a sociologist and demographer.

  3. The relatively new concept of intersectionality, also referred to as gender equality +, contains the notion that systems of gender discrimination are interwoven with other systems of discrimination and inequality based on ethnicity, race, class, culture, religion and sexual orientation. It has increasingly become an essential analytical tool in gender studies. For the most recent comparative work on policy and intersectionality see the special issue edited by Lombardo et al. (2017).

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  1. HEC Paris - 1, rue de la Libération, 78351, Jouy en Josas Cedex, France

    Jacqueline Laufer

  2. School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    Amy Mazur

  3. LISE- Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (UMR 3320), 292 rue Saint-Martin, 75141, Paris cedex 3, France

    Frédérique Pigeyre

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Laufer, J., Mazur, A. & Pigeyre, F. Research frontiers in comparative gender equality policy: contributions from the study of equal employment policy practice in France and Canada. Fr Polit 16, 231–234 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-018-0068-7

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