| Title |
Family policy in Lithuania: the struggle between ideologies or backlash in gender issues? / |
| Another Title |
Šeimos politika Lietuvoje: ideologijų kova ar regresas lyčių klausimuose? |
| Authors |
Purvaneckienė, Giedrė |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Lyčių studijos ir tyrimai / Šiaulių universitetas.. Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2010, nr. 8, p. 51-58.. ISSN 1822-6310 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Sex discrimination ; Women’s rights ; Family policy |
| Abstract [eng] |
Lithuania is known as a country making huge progress in gender equality issues not contradicting the state family policy. But in the period of 2006-2008, three legal acts on family policy endangering gender equality and women's rights were under consideration at the Parliament. The results of voting on these three legal acts are being analysed. Basing on the results of longitudinal study "Woman in Lithuanian Society" it is shown that attitudes of those Parliamentarians who voted did not reflect view of Lithuanian population towards definition of a family and ban of abortions. Results of analysis allow to presume that there was little struggle between ideologies on high political level due to too small number of Parliamentarians advocating gender equality. The majority of members of Parliament were afraid to express their position in gender-sensitive questions. There are signs of backlash in gender equality but economic crisis reduces deepening of it. |
| Published |
Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2010 |
