Gender and Social Justice in Wales
Distributed for University of Wales Press
In 1999 Wales held the inaugural elections for the National Assembly for Wales, and nearly forty percent of those elected were women. Within four years, this proportion had increased to fifty percent, making the National Assembly for Wales the first legislative body in history to be equal parts men and women.
With Gender and Social Justice in Wales, editors Nickie Charles and Charlotte Aull Davies examine how that composition has affected the policies of the assembly over the past decade and assess the effects of these policies on social justice for women in Wales.
Notes on Contributors
1. Setting the Scene: Devolution, Gender Politics and Social Justice
I. Gender, Political Representation and Social Justice
2. Delivery or Déjà Vu? Gender Mainstreaming and Public Policy in Post-devolution Wales
3. Gender and Political Representation: Views from the Grass Roots
II. Social Justice for Women?
4. Devolution, Gender and Childcare: A Distinctive Agenda for Wales?
5. Developing a Domestic Abuse Strategy
Nickie Charles and Stephanie Jones
6. Mainstreaming Across the Equality Dimensions: Policy on Sexual Orientation in Wales
7. Making the World New? Education in Post-devolution Wales
8. Gendered Housing Policy: Women, Housing and Homelessness
Susan Hutson and Tamsin Stirling
9. The Material Resources of Older Women in Wales and Welsh Assembly Government Policy Responses
10. Devolution and Welsh Language Policy: A Gender Dimension?
Charlotte Aull Davies
11. The Future
Nickie Charles and Charlotte Aull Davies