This book assesses how policies developed by the National Assembly
for Wales are affecting gender inequalities and investigates
whether they are having an impact on social justice for women in
Wales. In 1999 the first elections to devolved governments took
place in Scotland and Wales. In Wales this resulted in 40 per cent
of Assembly Members being women. In 2003 this proportion increased
to 50 per cent which makes the National Assembly for Wales 'the
first legislative body with equal numbers of men and women in the
world' ("The Guardian", 3/5/03). This new gender balance of
political representatives is a significant change in the gendering
of political institutions and this, together with the creation of a
new tier of government, has the potential to create new
opportunities for the development of social policies which address
gender and other social inequalities. Focusing on distinct policy
domains, this book explores gender politics in a devolved Wales.
Each chapter investigates a particular aspect of social policy,
exploring the way it has developed since devolution and the extent
to which considerations of gender and social justice for women are
central to this development. The empirical chapters which form the
core of the book are situated theoretically and politically by the
first chapter which discusses how gender and social justice can be
theorised and explores devolution and its relation to gender
politics in Wales.
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