@article{ref1,
title="Framing gender equality in the European Union political discourse",
journal="Social politics",
year="2008",
author="Lombardo, Emanuela and Meier, Petra",
volume="15",
number="1",
pages="101-129",
abstract="In the last decade, the European Union (EU) approach to gender equality has broadened to new concepts, such as gender main-streaming, and new issues, such as &quot;family policies&quot;, &quot;domestic violence&quot;, and &quot;gender inequality in politics&quot;. However, the frame analysis of policy documents in these new areas shows first, that each issue has developed its own particular features, an, secondly, that the broadening of the EU-political discourse on gender equality has not led to a deeper framing of the issues in terms of gender equality. The lack of EU competence in these areas, the status of the policy documents, and differences in the actors having a voice and being referred to in the documents are proposed as possible explanations for its framing.<p />",
language="",
issn="1072-4745",
doi="10.1093/sp/jxn001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxn001"
}