ABSTRACT
Ever since gender mainstreaming was embraced by the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999, European institutions and member states have made significant advances in the development of policies, legislation and government structures dealing with equality between women and men in many areas of public life. Previous efforts at introducing considerations of gender equality – at the time mostly defined as women’s issues rather than gender – into planning agendas were somewhat scarce and served as isolated examples, although a few had significant impacts and visibility, in Great Britain, Holland, Scandinavia and Vienna.
