“Mazur's in-depth case study of the limitation of equal employment policy in France provides important documentation and analysis regarding symbolic reform over several decades.”
—American Political Science Review
 

“Presents theoretically grounded research that employs both qualitative and quantitative methods to incorporate gender within comparative policy analysis. . . . This contextually rich study of French equal employment policy provides a theoretical answer to an important puzzle: why governments choose to make symbolic reforms which are 'meant to do nothing.' . . . The book leaves us with a useful analytic tool for examining the problem of symbolic policy formation, a problem which has for too long afflicted women's policy.”
—Women and Politics

“[Mazur] presents a minutely detailed account of how, in Fifth Republic France, a small policy community failed to achieve more than lip-service commitment to equalizing pay and working conditions for women. . . . [Her] rich description is valuable.”
—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science