From single to multidimensional policy approaches to equalities: The example of contract compliance

The aim of this chapter is to examine multidimensional approaches to equality from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, policy, and practice. In particular, it examines the efficacy of a certain mode of interventionism. First, however, we need to clarify what we mean by multidimensionality. Schiek rightly points out that the term is open to some confusion in that it may, for example, refer to different conceptions of equality or to different sets of grounds specified in order ‘to achieve equality for multi-faceted human beings in social reality’.1