Policy When Implementation Stalls

The Uphill Battle for Equal Pay

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Since governments across the world began creating equal pay laws in the 1970s, policy and progress on the gender pay gap stalled until the 2010s. Despite much research on the challenges of equal pay policy, detailed analysis of policy implementation within countries combined with cross-national analysis across countries has not been undertaken.Policy When Implementation Stalls fills this gap by telling the over 50-year history of equal pay policy in post-industrial democracies through systematic within and cross-country analysis of these policies from pre-adoption through adoption to post-adoption. It uses the Gender Equality Policy in Practice (GEPP) approach and network to analyze equal pay policy implementation in Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Australia, Canada, the UK, the USA, and Croatia, providing an innovative way to assess not only why equal pay policies have been unable to make progress but also how and why the stalled imperative of these policies have recently been broken in some, but not all, of these countries. The story of stalled policy begins in Part I with a chapter on equal pay policy at the EU level. Part II then covers the strong corporatist countries and Part III the countries with weaker corporatist systems. The concluding chapter, in Part IV, conducts a cross-national analysis and contributes to emerging comparative theories of gender equality policy and stalled policy. Policy When Implementation Stalls shows that while gender equality progress is being put into question across the globe, successful policy practice has enabled some countries to break the pattern of stalled implementation. It suggests a recipe for policy success and concrete recommendations to move gender pay equality forward in this resistant area for change.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-03
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198972884

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Isabelle Engeli is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Exeter. Prior to joining Exeter, she worked at the Universities of Bath, Ottawa, and Geneva. She has also been co-editor of several leading Political Science journals in Europe, convened the European Conference of Politics and Gender, and was Vice-President of the International Public Policy Association. Currently, she contributes to the Horizon Europe PUSH*BACK*LASH project and co-convenes the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network with Amy G. Mazur.Amy G. Mazur is Professor Emeritus at Washington State University, where she worked for 32 years, and Associate Researcher at LIEPP, Sciences Po Paris. She has been co-convening the Gender Equality Policy in Practice network since 2013 with Isabelle Engeli and the Going Global with State Feminism project since 2023. She has been Lead Editor of French Politics, since 2019. From 1995 to 2011, she was co-convener of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State and has also consulted for the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union, and the Organization of Security and Cooperation.

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Part I. Introduction 1: Isabelle Engeli and Amy G. Mazur: Studying Stalled Implementation in Equal Pay: Challenges, Approach, and Comparative Roadmap 2: Sophie Jacquot: Sowing the Seeds for Stalled Implementation: The Long and Conflictual Road of EU Equal Pay Policy Part II. Equal Pay in Practice Where Corporatism is Strong 3: Lenita Freidenvall: Equal Pay Mapping in Sweden: Between Accommodation and Transformation 4: Veronika Lemeire and Patrizia Zanoni: Social Partners Implementing Equal Pay Legislation in Belgium: Incomplete Transformation Through Empowerment 5: Mari Teigen and Ines Wagner: Transparency without Transformation in Norway: When the Wage Formation System Limits Legislated Gender Pay Reporting 6: Alexandra Scheele: It's a Long Way to EL Nowhere: Implementing Stalled Accommodation in Pay Transparency in Germany 7: Olga Salido Cortés: Assessing Equal Pay Policies in Spain: An Unfinished Journey into Transformation 8: Sophie Pochic and Cécile Guillaume: Implementing the Gender Equality Index: Accommodation with Limited and Selective Effects in France Part III. Equal Pay in Practice where Corporatism is Weak 9: Lucie Newsome: Equal Pay and Fair Work in Australia: Stalled Implementation Generates Policy with Transformative Potential 10: Susan Milner: Stalled Momentum and Mixed Outcomes: Regulating Gender Pay Gap Reporting in the United Kingdom 11: Iris Bradford, Francesca Scala and Stephanie Paterson: Canada's 2018 Pay Equity Act: A Shift to Proactive Policy Stalls in Accommodation 12: Ashley English, Meredith Niezgoda, Lanie Richards, Sydney Smith and Season Hoard: The Less Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Stalled Accommodation in Complaints-Based Policy in the USA 13: Andrea Spehar: Symbolic Policy without Pay Transparency in Croatia: The Practice of Gender-Neutral Outcomes Part IV. Conclusion 14: Isabelle Engeli and Amy G. Mazur: Breaking Stalled Implementation: The Crucial Step of Comparative Analysis