Gender, Policy, Politics, and Work: Feminist Comparative and Transnational Research

This article reviews feminist comparative and transnational research on workplace policy, politics and the state. The first section examines a range of theoretical approaches to the topic. W e then present a variety of methodologies for conducting comparative and transna-tional research on policy developments. Informed by a number of case studies included in the symposium, we explore the dynamics and determinants, both national and suprana-tional, of policy formation and its impacts. Finally, we tease out the implicit and explicit notions of gender equity for future policy analysis. The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the rise of new poli-cies, ranging from equal opportunities and parental and family leave to regulation of working time and sexual relations, that have made the workplace more hospitable to women workers. The collected articles explore the dynamics and determinants, both national and supranational, of such feminist policy formation and its impacts. This symposium con-tributes to comparative and transnational research on workplace policy