ABSTRACT
W Ith the findings on 25 Job training debates from seven dif-ferent countries and the EU and analyses of training and gender issues in Spain, Austria, and at the EU level, this chapter may now return to the original question that framed this study: do women's policy offices matter? and if so, why? The rich country studies conducted for this book provide systematic treatment of and expert insight into whether women's policy agencies are capable of helping women's movements to enter the purview of the state and its policies. Both separately and taken together, they make important methodological, empirical, and theoretical contributions to research on state feminism, gender and policy, job training policy, and comparative politics and policy. This chapter, therefore, first summarizes the findings of the studies in this volume in terms of the RNGS framework and then discusses the ways in which the book contributes to these adjacent areas of scholarship and to more applied approaches to public policy in postindustrial democracies.
