How political groups frame gender equality and human rights in the European Parliament

The European Parliament has passed a number of resolutions that support gender equality and LGBTQI rights. Yet among MEPs, there remain sharp differences in opinion over these issues. Drawing on a new study, Petra Ahrens, Barbara Gaweda and Johanna Kantola identify how these debates are structured between political groups in the Parliament

Fish Fingers and Measles? : Assessing Complex Gender Equality in the Scenarios for the Future of Europe

Contains fulltext : 218776pub.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)In 2017, at a time when the EU was experiencing a triple crisis, the European Commission published a White Paper containing five scenarios outlining potential ways out of it. In his State of the Union address Commission President Juncker added a sixth. Although the Commission refers to fundamental values it neglects gender equality and reduces equality to the harmonization of the quantity of fish in fish fingers and EU‐wide access to vaccination against measles. Despite the neglect of gender equality, the scenarios are not gender neutral. A feminist institutionalist analysis unpacks the potential direct and indirect positive and negative gendered consequences of each scenario and illuminates how the choice of scenario makes a difference as to their gendered impacts and as to the access for feminist actors to bring gender issues to the table.06 september 201917 p

Gender Mainstreaming im Europäischen Parlament: Geschichte, Institutionalisierung, Hindernisse

Das Europäische Parlament (EP) hat sich als eines der wenigen Parlamente weltweit seit 2003 in insgesamt sechs Entschließungen zur Umsetzung von Gender Mainstreaming (GM) verpflichtet. Ausgehend von dem Ansatz des Feministischen Institutionalismus analysiert dieser Beitrag chronologisch die potenzielle Institutionalisierung von GM und fragt, inwieweit sich neue Regeln und Normen in bestehende formale und informelle Regeln einflechten lassen. Hierfür werden zentrale EP-Dokumente für den Zeitraum 2003 bis 2019 sowie leitfadengestützte Interviews mit MEPs verschiedener Fraktionen und EP-Beschäftigten aus 2019 und 2020 analysiert. Insgesamt kann von einer GM-Institutionalisierung gesprochen werden, wenn sie auch heterogen verläuft.The European Parliament (EP) is one of the few parliaments worldwide to have adopted a total of six resolutions in the period since 2003 in which it pledges to implement gender mainstreaming (GM). Applying Feminist Institutionalism, the article analyzes the potential institutionalization of GM from a chronological perspective. It investigates to what extent new rules and norms can be incorporated into existing formal and informal rules. Examining key EP documents from the period between 2003 and 2019 and semi-structured interviews conducted with Members of the EP (MEPs) from different political groups and with EP staff in 2019 and 2020, the article provides an analysis of GM institutionalization. Overall, one can say that GM has become institutionalized over time, although implementation is quite heterogenous

Rezension: Henriette Müller, Ingeborg Tömmel (Hrsg.), 2022: Women and Leadership in the European Union

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Gender Mainstreaming im Europäischen Parlament: Geschichte, Institutionalisierung, Hindernisse

Das Europäische Parlament (EP) hat sich als eines der wenigen Parlamente weltweit seit 2003 in insgesamt sechs Entschließungen zur Umsetzung von Gender Mainstreaming (GM) verpflichtet. Ausgehend von dem Ansatz des Feministischen Institutionalismus analysiert dieser Beitrag chronologisch die potenzielle Institutionalisierung von GM und fragt, inwieweit sich neue Regeln und Normen in bestehende formale und informelle Regeln einflechten lassen. Hierfür werden zentrale EP-Dokumente für den Zeitraum 2003 bis 2019 sowie leitfadengestützte Interviews mit MEPs verschiedener Fraktionen und EP-Beschäftigten aus 2019 und 2020 analysiert. Insgesamt kann von einer GM-Institutionalisierung gesprochen werden, wenn sie auch heterogen verläuft.The European Parliament (EP) is one of the few parliaments worldwide to have adopted a total of six resolutions in the period since 2003 in which it pledges to implement gender mainstreaming (GM). Applying Feminist Institutionalism, the article analyzes the potential institutionalization of GM from a chronological perspective. It investigates to what extent new rules and norms can be incorporated into existing formal and informal rules. Examining key EP documents from the period between 2003 and 2019 and semi-structured interviews conducted with Members of the EP (MEPs) from different political groups and with EP staff in 2019 and 2020, the article provides an analysis of GM institutionalization. Overall, one can say that GM has become institutionalized over time, although implementation is quite heterogenous