Download or read book Gendering the European Parliament written by Petra Ahrens and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies and Practices provides a multifaceted innovative analysis of the EP by studying it comprehensively from a gender perspective addressing changes and continuities. It asks how and why the EP, as an institution, is gendered and what the gendered impacts of recent changes are when it comes to the structures, policies and practices of the EP. This collection brings together scholars from a variety of different disciplines (sociology, political sciences, law, management studies and cultural studies) as well as theoretical and methodological backgrounds who are united by their ability to provide the puzzle pieces necessary to fully comprehend the EP from a gender perspective.
Download or read book Gender Mainstreaming in the European Parliament written by Rosamund Shreeves and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union commits the European Union (EU) and its Member States to eliminating inequalities and promoting the principle of equality between women and men in all their actions. As set out in the EU's gender equality strategy 2020-2025, achieving gender equality in the EU is a joint responsibility requiring action by all EU institutions, Member States and agencies, in partnership with civil society and women's organisations, social partners and the private sector. Since 2003, when gender mainstreaming activities within the European Parliament were formally launched, its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) has regularly prepared monitoring reports on the state of gender mainstreaming in the institution. The subsequent resolutions, adopted in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2016 and 2019 respectively, are part of a whole series of activities implemented over the past two decades to support and intensify gender mainstreaming in the Parliament, the most recent being the adoption of a new gender action plan and a roadmap for its implementation, in July 2020 and April 2021 respectively. This study examines the current state of play regarding gender mainstreaming in the Parliament, in support of a forthcoming own-initiative report by the FEMM committee on the same topic. It gives an insight into the concept of gender mainstreaming and possible tools to implement it, provides an overview of Parliament's current gender mainstreaming policy (with particular focus on the new gender action plan and related roadmap) and analyses gender mainstreaming practices in other EU institutions, national parliaments and international institutions to date, in order to put Parliament's efforts into a wider context.
Download or read book Gender mainstreaming in the European Union written by Stefanie Ehemann and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1,3, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, course: Intercultural Communication, language: English, abstract: The European Union is coming closer together and women such as Angela Merkel, the Federal Chancellor of Germany, play ever more important roles in the definition of European policy. Furthermore, the European gender-policies have been reaching importance since the Fourth International Conference on Women in Beijing. Strive for equal rights mirrors the composition of the European Parliament, where women are becoming more prominent, but not yet as prominent as men. Additionally not only women as politicians develop since the emergence of gender mainstreaming. This political strategy comprises the behavior of politicians, the behavior of the society whether they go voting or not and finally the economy, also regarded from both sides – the employer and the employee. It always was and still is a long and exhausting struggle for women in politics and the economy to be taken seriously. Although women obtain a high profile they often do not reach the same important positions as men do. As we can see in the European Commission - there are eight women and 19 men. Men represent hereby the most important departments. Due to those facts the thesis of this term paper is: “Due to the modern European policy concerning the gender mainstreaming women are not yet equal players in the economical and political system of the European Union”. This paper aims to show the development as well as the current situation of women in the economy as well as in European politics. Women indeed reach higher level positions in the European politics and large enterprises nowadays and they also have almost the same rights as men have in Western Europe. But they still cannot reach the same degree of responsibility as their male colleagues do. In some areas of politics as well as business the emancipation is already quite sophisticated. Although in Germany we have a woman as a chancellor, there are still a higher number of men dominating economy and politics.
Download or read book Gender and the European Union written by Johanna Kantola and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad ranging new text provides a systematic assessment of the emergence of gender as a significant issue on the EU agenda and of the EU's impact on gender inequality, both in terms of specifically gender-related policies and the gender dimensions of other policies.
Download or read book Gender Mainstreaming in the EU written by Sonia Mazey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 the European Union formally adopted the equality strategy of gender mainstreaming. This strategy seeks to achieve equality between men and women by integrating a gender perspective into all public policies in order to ensure that the (often different) needs of women and men are taken into account. This dossier examines the impact of gender mainstreaming upon EU policy-making procedures and key EU policies. The discussion is divided into three parts. Part One clarifies the concept of gender mainstreaming, highlighting the theoretical justification for and policy-making implications of this approach. Part Two explains how and why gender mainstreaming came to be adopted by the EU. Part Three evaluates the impact of gender mainstreaming upon the EU policy-making process up to the time of publication.
Download or read book Gendering the European Union written by G. Abels and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlargement, the development of gender law and the role of formal actors, scholars and expert networks in the EU policy-making process. With a focus on gender mainstreaming as a new approach to gender policy.
Download or read book Gender Mainstreaming an Innovation in Europe written by Verena Schmidt and published by Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of gender mainstreaming has experienced an unexpected boom in the European Union and beyond since the United Nations World Conference of Women in Beijing in 1995. Starting from the evolution of gender mainstreaming, this book examines the extent to which gender mainstreaming can be regarded as an innovation and as an institution in a complex organization like the European Commission. By ensuring that the effects on both genders of all policies and organizational processes are taken into account, gender mainstreaming seeks to bring what are often marginalised as 'women's concerns' into the mainstream of the analysis. Gender mainstreaming is often regarded as a paradigm shift compared to previous concepts of equal treatment and positive action programs.
Download or read book Gender Mainstreaming in Committees and Delegations of the European Parliament written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of the study is to assess to what extent the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee (FEMM) of the European Parliament (EP) contributed to the effective implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament activities in the period between July 2011 and February 2013. The analytical approach adopted in the study includes two relevant dimensions for the mainstreaming of the gender equality perspective within the policy-making process: institutional capacity and institutional learning. One of the prerequisites for the success of the gender mainstreaming strategy lies within institutional factors and conditions. Four institutional capacity dimensions are relevant for an effective mainstreaming of the gender equality perspective in the policy process: the quality of civil servants and organisational characteristics; inter-departmental relations (organisational processes); the style of interaction between institutions and their social and economic environment; and evidence-based policies. Another important aspect in analysing if and to what extent the consideration of gender differences is internalized within EP’s parliamentary committees’ work concerns institutional learning. The issue is how to extract useful knowledge from gender mainstreaming interventions (“what works?”), in order to obtain similar results in different contexts. This leads to the social mechanisms theoretical framework, which is used for effectively identifying the success factors that ensured effective implementation of different policies/programmes/projects (in this case gender mainstreaming). The analysis of how and to what extent FEMM contributed to the effective implementation of gender mainstreaming in the EP’s activities in the period between July 2011 and February 2013 yields evidence of a well-developed legal and institutional framework for gender mainstreaming. However, there is room for improvement in its internal procedures and networking among different bodies.
Download or read book Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Equality in Europe written by Vera Lomazzi and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With gender equality so prominent in public debate, this timely book reviews the impacts of gender mainstreaming on political, social and cultural issues around Europe. It explores the origins and evolution of mainstreaming, the theory’s contribution to gender equality legislation so far and its potential to drive change in the future. Drawing on extensive data, the book compares and contrasts progress in various European countries, taking into account the multidimensionality of gender equality. Finally, the book considers the limits of gender mainstreaming amid economic, migration and political challenges. This important book is a welcome contribution to discussions about gender equality in European societies looking at the interplay of policies, culture and public opinion.
Download or read book Transformations in EU Gender Equality written by Sophie Jacquot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a context of economic and budgetary crisis, this book presents a long-term analysis of the transformations of EU gender equality. It analyses the mechanisms of construction, consolidation and deconstruction of this policy and questions the effects of its current dismantling.
Download or read book The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality written by Emanuela Lombardo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the discursive constructions of gender equality and the implications of these understandings in a broad range of policy fields. Using gender equality as a prime example, a number of internationally renowned scholars offer a new vocabulary to identify and study processes of the reduction, amplification, shifting or freezing of meaning. The main aim of the book is to understand the dynamics and to reflect on the consequences of such discursive politics in recent policy making on gender equality. It explores both the potential opportunities that are opened up for the promotion of equality through discursive politics, and the limitations they impose. Distinctive features of the volume include: chapters covering a range of case studies in Europe, the USA, and the Asia region, tackling contemporary political debates on equality new insights of relevance to public policy practices such as gender mainstreaming, with theorizing on intersecting inequalities The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality will be of interest to students and scholars, of political science, public policy, comparative politics, gender and women studies.
Download or read book Updating of the Study on Gender Mainstreaming in Committees and Delegations of the European Parliament written by Manuela Samek Lodovici and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, provides an update of a previous study published in 2014. It is meant to assess to what extent the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee (FEMM) of the European Parliament contributed to the effective implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament activities between July 2017 and July 2018.
Download or read book Gender and the European Union written by Lucarelli, Sonia and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender discrimination continues to be a reality in several parts of the world, also in Europe. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of both European Union’s (EU) gender policies and gender balance in EU institutions. It does so by looking at gender equality policies and the EU legal system concerning gender equality, women’s representation within diff erent institutions (and more particularly in the European External Action Service), gender rights as a type of human rights and the EU’s role in the external promotion of womens’ rights in third countries. The analysis shows that women’s representation in the EU institutions has increased in the last decades and that the EU has strengthened its att ention to gender rights in its external relations as well, however the results of both att empts are far from being fully satisfactory.
Download or read book Making Gender Equality Happen written by Rosalind Cavaghan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In theory, the EU’s ‘Gender Mainstreaming’ policy should mark it out as a trail-blazer in gender equality, but gender equality activists in Europe confront a knotty problem; most civil servants and policy makers can’t understand how to ‘mainstream’ gender. Making Gender Equality Happen argues that we should take this problem seriously. In this book Cavaghan uncovers the social processes that make gender appear irrelevant to so many policy makers using a new method, gender knowledge contestation analysis. Building on this new perspective Cavaghan identifies: barriers to effective gender mainstreaming; mechanisms of resistance to gender mainstreaming; and the steps towards positive change, which gender mainstreaming can yield, even when results stop short of ‘transformation’. These findings present fresh perspectives for policy makers and activists aiming to make gender equality happen. Cavaghan’s new method also opens fresh avenues in feminist EU studies, which are particularly relevant in the wake of the financial crisis, as the EU seems to be stepping away from its commitments to gender equality.
Download or read book Rethinking Gender Equality in Global Governance written by Lars Engberg-Pedersen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A very valuable and much needed book on a central element in the processes of social change: the construction and reconstruction of social norms as they move between global and local levels.” —Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK “This book explores how gender equality norms are ever-evolving and argues convincingly that we cannot take their effectiveness, nor their acceptance, for granted.” —Judith Kelley, Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, USA “In an era of increasing resistance to gender equality, this is a much-needed volume that attends to how gender equality norms are interpreted and contested in governance organisations ranging from the UN and the EU to Mercosur and women’s NGOs in India and Uganda.” —Ann Towns, University of Gothenburg, Sweden This edited collection provides a new theoretical approach to the study of how global norms influence social processes. It analyses the institutional and highly political processes whereby actors – be they local, national, regional or trans-national – engage with global norms of gender equality. The editors bring together key thinkers who emphasise how context and history effect norm engagement and how particular groups and actors tend to be marginalised from discussions of global norms. By proposing a situated approach that underlines the contingent, multi-level processes that occur when actors interpret, use, manipulate, bend, or betray norms, notions of norm diffusion are fundamentally challenged. This book makes a further crucial contribution to the study of norms and gender equality in global governance by analysing very different empirical contexts, from New Delhi and St. Petersburg to the Organisation of American States, and from Kampala and New York to the European Union.
Download or read book Gender Mainstreaming in the EU Development Cooperation written by Stefanie Kessler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay examines the adoption and implementation of gender mainstreaming in the development cooperation of the European Union (EU). It reviews the theoretical concept of gender mainstreaming linked to feminist theory in order to reflect upon the adaptation of gender mainstreaming within the EU. Key issues are the political willigness of the EU towards gender equality, gender training of staff, internal assessment and evaluation, the two sidedness of gender mainstreaming, the representation of women in decision-making, gender analyses of the social contexts and the actual impact of gender mainstreaming.
Download or read book Promoting Gender Equality Abroad written by Thomas Kruessmann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU likes to be seen as a normative actor, engaged in diffusing the norms and values enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty. This book focuses on gender equality as one of these values. It shows that the EU, in implementing the mandate to promote gender equality abroad, is acting under distinctly separate sets of logic in the various policy fields and vis-�-vis different stakeholders. The same normative commitment to gender equality, when filtered through the particular logic of the various policy fields, leads to different types of external action with rather different outcomes. (Series: Gender Discussion / [Gender-Diskussion, Vol. 24) pSubject: European Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology, Public Policy, Politics]
