Promoting Gender Equality in the Public Sector

This report, commissioned and published by the Equal Opportunities Commission reviewed the evidence in support of the introduction of a public duty on gender equality.

EOC Research and Working Paper Series: Working Paper No.2

Contents:

1. The duty to promote race equality.
2. Public authorities in the UK with an equality duty.
3. Mainstreaming and imppact assessment in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
4. National framework for policy making.
5. The Government's modernisation agenda.
6. Strategies to promote gender equality.
7. Organisation and management.
8. Approaches to gender mainstreaming.
9. Barriers to progress.
10. The limitations of alternative approaches.
11. Case study views on a need for a publlic sector duty.
12. Proposed nature of a public sector duty.
13. Proposed nature of the legislation.
14. Additional guidance and resources.
15. Policy implications and recomendations.

Autumn 2002 ISBN 1 84206 034 1