* Assodate Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director, Center on Women and Public Policy,
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. Thanks to Martha Chamallas
for all her help with this essay. Thanks, too, to Dierdre Wendell-Blunt for research assistance
and to Susan Olson for her comments. 1. The appropriate term is now the European Union.
The Treaty of European Union (known as die Maastricht Treaty) consolidated the three
communities making up the European Community: the European Coal and Steel …