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Assessing equal opportunities in the European Union

1999; Wiley; Volume: 138; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1564-913x.1999.tb00393.x

1564-913X

Janneke Plantenga, Johan Hansen,

Discrimination and Equality Law

International Labour ReviewVolume 138, Issue 4 p. 351-379 Assessing equal opportunities in the European Union Janneke PLANTENGA, Janneke PLANTENGA *Institute of Economics, Utrecht UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorJohan HANSEN, Johan HANSEN **Ph.D candidate, Department of Sociology and Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), Utrecht UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Janneke PLANTENGA, Janneke PLANTENGA *Institute of Economics, Utrecht UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorJohan HANSEN, Johan HANSEN **Ph.D candidate, Department of Sociology and Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), Utrecht UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 22 September 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913X.1999.tb00393.xCitations: 34 This article draws on and extends the coverage of an earlier report prepared by the same authors, as coordinators for the European Commission Group of Experts "Gender and Employment", and funded by the Community Action Programme for Equal Opportunities (1996–2000) (Plantenga and Hansen, 1999). 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