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An appreciation of the content and trajectory of the European Union’s policy on women’s rights is crucial to an understanding of the way in which equal pay policies have been developing in EU member states. The EU policy, now in operation for 40 years, provides a framework for developments, on the one hand setting some liberal principles with which states are expected to comply, and on the other imposing often restrictive interpretations of law which inflect national practice. The EU policy itself has pursued a tortuous path, responding to a variety of irregular pressures and to a complex and changing environment. The new measures on gender equality and social policy introduced in the 1997 Amsterdam Treaty represent the latest stage in this process.1
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Hoskyns, C. (1999). Then and Now: Equal Pay in European Union Politics. In: Gregory, J., Sales, R., Hegewisch, A. (eds) Women, Work and Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983331_2
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