Manual for Gender Mainstreaming of Employment, Social Inclusion and Social Protection Policies

The manual is the Commission's a response to its commitment to monitoring and enforcement activities for the integration of gender mainstreaming in the integrated guidelines for growth and employment and in the open method of coordination on social inclusion and social protection. It explains what it is to mainstream gender policy and provides policy-makers with practical advice on how to pursue this issue in employment, social inclusion, as well as social protection. However, the general method can be applied in any policy area and beyond the timeframe of this book. The manual provides four-step method that policymakers can use: organization, learning the differences between the sexes, impact assessment of policies and redesigning policies.