The ECPG Gender and Politics Career Achievement Award
The ECPG Gender and Politics Career Achievement Award honors an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment, mentoring and service to the profession in the field of Gender and Politics in Europe. The field of gender and politics is broadly conceived to include any gender and sexuality studies perspective in political science, international
relations, political theory and philosophy, research methods, public policy and public administration.
The award is open to all the scholars who have contributed in outstanding fashions to scholarly development, mentoring and professional service to the field of Gender and Politics in Europe. Furthering the cause and interests of gender and politics scholars in Europe, their career and work in political science is a criterion to obtain the award There is no requirement regarding the academic affiliation or geographic professional location of the nominee. The frequency of the award is every 2 years. Collective nominations may be made by a minimum of 20 members of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics (nomination by non-institutional member of the ECPR are accepted). It should consist of a statement outlining the contribution of the nominees regarding their intellectual accomplishment, mentoring contribution and service to the profession in the field of Gender and Politics in Europe. The nomination should include the vitae of the nominee as well as a representative piece of work. The nomination should also include the name, and academic affiliation of the ECPR Standing Group members endorsing the nomination.
2017 Recipient - Hege Skjeie
Hege Skjeie is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Her career demonstrates both a commitment to scholarly advancement but also to public engagement and she has taken an active role in advocating for gender equality; in 2000 she became the first woman appointed to a full professorship in political science in Norway.
Hege's innovative research on ethnicity, diversity and intersectionality, human rights law and policy, and political representation, power and elite politics has contributed to advance the theoretical thinking of European gender and politics research. One major contribution is her research on the intersections of gender, ethnicity and religion in the Nordic and European institutions, for example in the path-breaking and collaborative project on institutionalizing intersectionality and the changing nature of European Equality Regimes (see the book Institutionalizing Intersectionality, 2012). Another major contribution is her research within in the field of human rights’ law and policy. Analyzing the role of individual human rights, including religious rights, she coined the provocative concept ‘likestillingens vikeplikt’ referring to the fact that women’s equal rights must often make way for other more important concerns, published first in the Power and Democracy Commissions book series in Skjeie and Teigen (2003), Menn imellom, Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk; then in Skjeie and Teigen (2005), «Political constructions of gender equality: "Travelling towards … a gender balanced society"». NORA Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies. Vol. 13. No. 3, 187-197; and in Skjeie (2007). "Religious exemptions to equality", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 10(4):471- 490.
The results of her empirical work have had a profound influence on the Norwegian policies and public debates on (gender) equality and democracy, for example as the powerful Chair of the Norwegian Government’s Equality Commission, the Skjeie-commission (2010-2012), and main responsible for the official equality reports, criticizing the dominant mainstreaming policy as a failure unable to solve the problems related to the gender division of work and gender stereotyping in education and on the labour market. The equality reports presented a holistic and multidimensional approach to gender equality, which is now generally accepted.
In recent years she has initiated and managed several large projects to establish intersectional studies in Norway financed by the Norwegian Research Council: PLUREQ - Gender equality, cultural diversity, religious pluralism: State policies and feminist interventions; DEMROK- Democracy, freedom of religion and women’s human rights; and together with Mari Teigen; MULTIDIM – Multidimensional equality: Legislative reforms and judicial practices. She has also held several public positions; as a Member of the Standing Committee on Outside Political Appointments (2009-2017) (Karantene-nemnda), which decides on interim periods for former cabinet ministers, state secretaries and political advisers when they leave public office for private sector jobs/appointments; of the Centennial for women’s vote committee (2009-2013) (Stemmerettskomiteen); and of the Equality Tribunal (2006-2010) (Likestillings- og diskrimineringsnemnda), monitoring all Norwegian non-discrimination and equality legislation (four comprehensive laws). In addition she has written commentaries for the leading Norwegian financial newspaper (Dagens Næringsliv) sharing a weekly column with the Prime Minister, the leader of the main opposition party and two professors in economics, mainly dealing with human rights, integration, and equality policy issues.
relations, political theory and philosophy, research methods, public policy and public administration.
The award is open to all the scholars who have contributed in outstanding fashions to scholarly development, mentoring and professional service to the field of Gender and Politics in Europe. Furthering the cause and interests of gender and politics scholars in Europe, their career and work in political science is a criterion to obtain the award There is no requirement regarding the academic affiliation or geographic professional location of the nominee. The frequency of the award is every 2 years. Collective nominations may be made by a minimum of 20 members of the ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics (nomination by non-institutional member of the ECPR are accepted). It should consist of a statement outlining the contribution of the nominees regarding their intellectual accomplishment, mentoring contribution and service to the profession in the field of Gender and Politics in Europe. The nomination should include the vitae of the nominee as well as a representative piece of work. The nomination should also include the name, and academic affiliation of the ECPR Standing Group members endorsing the nomination.
2017 Recipient - Hege Skjeie
Hege Skjeie is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Her career demonstrates both a commitment to scholarly advancement but also to public engagement and she has taken an active role in advocating for gender equality; in 2000 she became the first woman appointed to a full professorship in political science in Norway.
Hege's innovative research on ethnicity, diversity and intersectionality, human rights law and policy, and political representation, power and elite politics has contributed to advance the theoretical thinking of European gender and politics research. One major contribution is her research on the intersections of gender, ethnicity and religion in the Nordic and European institutions, for example in the path-breaking and collaborative project on institutionalizing intersectionality and the changing nature of European Equality Regimes (see the book Institutionalizing Intersectionality, 2012). Another major contribution is her research within in the field of human rights’ law and policy. Analyzing the role of individual human rights, including religious rights, she coined the provocative concept ‘likestillingens vikeplikt’ referring to the fact that women’s equal rights must often make way for other more important concerns, published first in the Power and Democracy Commissions book series in Skjeie and Teigen (2003), Menn imellom, Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk; then in Skjeie and Teigen (2005), «Political constructions of gender equality: "Travelling towards … a gender balanced society"». NORA Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies. Vol. 13. No. 3, 187-197; and in Skjeie (2007). "Religious exemptions to equality", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 10(4):471- 490.
The results of her empirical work have had a profound influence on the Norwegian policies and public debates on (gender) equality and democracy, for example as the powerful Chair of the Norwegian Government’s Equality Commission, the Skjeie-commission (2010-2012), and main responsible for the official equality reports, criticizing the dominant mainstreaming policy as a failure unable to solve the problems related to the gender division of work and gender stereotyping in education and on the labour market. The equality reports presented a holistic and multidimensional approach to gender equality, which is now generally accepted.
In recent years she has initiated and managed several large projects to establish intersectional studies in Norway financed by the Norwegian Research Council: PLUREQ - Gender equality, cultural diversity, religious pluralism: State policies and feminist interventions; DEMROK- Democracy, freedom of religion and women’s human rights; and together with Mari Teigen; MULTIDIM – Multidimensional equality: Legislative reforms and judicial practices. She has also held several public positions; as a Member of the Standing Committee on Outside Political Appointments (2009-2017) (Karantene-nemnda), which decides on interim periods for former cabinet ministers, state secretaries and political advisers when they leave public office for private sector jobs/appointments; of the Centennial for women’s vote committee (2009-2013) (Stemmerettskomiteen); and of the Equality Tribunal (2006-2010) (Likestillings- og diskrimineringsnemnda), monitoring all Norwegian non-discrimination and equality legislation (four comprehensive laws). In addition she has written commentaries for the leading Norwegian financial newspaper (Dagens Næringsliv) sharing a weekly column with the Prime Minister, the leader of the main opposition party and two professors in economics, mainly dealing with human rights, integration, and equality policy issues.
2015 Recipient - Mieke Verloo
Mieke Verloo, is Professor of Comparative Politics and Inequality Issues at Radboud University, Nijmegen. She worked for IVA, the Institute for Social Science Research at Tilburg University, for the SCP (as free-lance researcher), for several departments at the University of Nijmegen, and at the University of Utrecht. She worked as staff member for two committees to stimulate women's studies at the national level (VBEO 1980-1982 and STEO 1988-1989). She was Visiting lecturer or Fellow at the University of Hamburg-Harburg and at the IWM, Institute for Human Sciences, in Vienna. At the IWM she also was Research Director for MAGEEQ (MAinstreaming GEnder EQuality) a 5th Framework project (2003-2005), see www.mageeq.net.
Her recent consultancy work includes work for the Luxembourg government (2008-9), the European Parliament (2006,with Sylvia Walby), and for the Luxembourg Presidency (on the Beijing +10 report, with Sylvia Walby). In 2003 she organised two seminars for DG Justice and Home Affairs (European Commission) on gender mainstreaming and gender impact assessment in co-operation with Suzanne Baer, professor of Gender and Public Law Humboldt University zu Berlin. In 2002-2003 she was coach and trainer for the Observatoria project, an EU funded initiative on gender mainstreaming and NGO’s concerning equal pay. Countries involved were Austria, Italy, Spain and France.
Currently, she combines working as Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen with being the Scientific Director of QUING, a 6th Framework Project, at the IWM in Vienna, see www.quing.eu.
Her research experience lies mainly in the field of equality policies, feminist methodology and social movements. Since the early 90s, the analysis, development and design of gender equality policies has been at the heart of Mieke’s research, consultancy and teaching. For the next 5 years, Mieke is increasingly linking attention for strategies against gender inequality to other axes of privilege and power, such as race/ethnicity, class and sexuality.
Excerpts from the letter of nomination for Prof. Mieke Verloo for the 2015 Gender and Politics Career Achievement Award:
“Mieke Verloo is a path-breaking thinker in gender and politics. Gender mainstreaming, intersectionality, and Critical Frame Analysis methodologies are good examples of this. Mieke’s works on gender mainstreaming have been pioneer in reflecting on one of the most important policy strategies (‘another velvet revolution?’), and pointing at the mainstreaming potential for ‘displacement and empowerment’, and oppositions to gender equality (one of her current research lines). Her reflections on intersectionality have challenged the EU institutional way of addressing inequalities as a ‘one size fits all approach’ and keep inspiring scholars and activists all over the world”
“Her work as a consultant and as a trainer especially in the Council of Europe but also in the EU has been crucial to what we all think today about gender mainstreaming and her ten years after evaluation (Social Politics) reflects that there is still a lot she has to say about mainstreaming. Her work as a trainer of gender mainstreaming in countries sometimes far remote from her own has also shown her commitment to the cause of promoting gender equality not just in terms of understanding gender and politics better in theoretical terms, but also in terms of channelling what we know from theory back to practice. Moreover, Mieke’s empowering personality defined her way of consulting politics, training bureaucrats (across Europe) so that politics and gender have a better relationship”
“The environment for researching gender and politics that Mieke has created in both MAGEEQ and QUING has served as a school where younger researchers could learn about gender and politics, but has also served as a place where young researchers could find research topics and were encouraged and supported to take on ambitious and innovative projects in which besides gaining important research topics and reaching important results they could increase their self-esteem and confidence to become known researchers in the field. Mieke’s leadership and indeed authorship in creating such an environment proved beneficial East and West, North and South of Europe, with several young researchers benefiting from it”
“Her visionary capacity to imagine equality worlds, her passion for and commitment to challenging inequality norms in all spheres of life, from theory to activism, are simply outstanding. These and many other qualities make of Mieke Verloo one of the key figures of our time in gender and politics, a person that makes the world of gender and politics go around, and that makes you believe that another, more equal, world is actually possible, and lots of fun doing”
http://www.ru.nl/politicologie/koppeling/verloo/
Her recent consultancy work includes work for the Luxembourg government (2008-9), the European Parliament (2006,with Sylvia Walby), and for the Luxembourg Presidency (on the Beijing +10 report, with Sylvia Walby). In 2003 she organised two seminars for DG Justice and Home Affairs (European Commission) on gender mainstreaming and gender impact assessment in co-operation with Suzanne Baer, professor of Gender and Public Law Humboldt University zu Berlin. In 2002-2003 she was coach and trainer for the Observatoria project, an EU funded initiative on gender mainstreaming and NGO’s concerning equal pay. Countries involved were Austria, Italy, Spain and France.
Currently, she combines working as Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen with being the Scientific Director of QUING, a 6th Framework Project, at the IWM in Vienna, see www.quing.eu.
Her research experience lies mainly in the field of equality policies, feminist methodology and social movements. Since the early 90s, the analysis, development and design of gender equality policies has been at the heart of Mieke’s research, consultancy and teaching. For the next 5 years, Mieke is increasingly linking attention for strategies against gender inequality to other axes of privilege and power, such as race/ethnicity, class and sexuality.
Excerpts from the letter of nomination for Prof. Mieke Verloo for the 2015 Gender and Politics Career Achievement Award:
“Mieke Verloo is a path-breaking thinker in gender and politics. Gender mainstreaming, intersectionality, and Critical Frame Analysis methodologies are good examples of this. Mieke’s works on gender mainstreaming have been pioneer in reflecting on one of the most important policy strategies (‘another velvet revolution?’), and pointing at the mainstreaming potential for ‘displacement and empowerment’, and oppositions to gender equality (one of her current research lines). Her reflections on intersectionality have challenged the EU institutional way of addressing inequalities as a ‘one size fits all approach’ and keep inspiring scholars and activists all over the world”
“Her work as a consultant and as a trainer especially in the Council of Europe but also in the EU has been crucial to what we all think today about gender mainstreaming and her ten years after evaluation (Social Politics) reflects that there is still a lot she has to say about mainstreaming. Her work as a trainer of gender mainstreaming in countries sometimes far remote from her own has also shown her commitment to the cause of promoting gender equality not just in terms of understanding gender and politics better in theoretical terms, but also in terms of channelling what we know from theory back to practice. Moreover, Mieke’s empowering personality defined her way of consulting politics, training bureaucrats (across Europe) so that politics and gender have a better relationship”
“The environment for researching gender and politics that Mieke has created in both MAGEEQ and QUING has served as a school where younger researchers could learn about gender and politics, but has also served as a place where young researchers could find research topics and were encouraged and supported to take on ambitious and innovative projects in which besides gaining important research topics and reaching important results they could increase their self-esteem and confidence to become known researchers in the field. Mieke’s leadership and indeed authorship in creating such an environment proved beneficial East and West, North and South of Europe, with several young researchers benefiting from it”
“Her visionary capacity to imagine equality worlds, her passion for and commitment to challenging inequality norms in all spheres of life, from theory to activism, are simply outstanding. These and many other qualities make of Mieke Verloo one of the key figures of our time in gender and politics, a person that makes the world of gender and politics go around, and that makes you believe that another, more equal, world is actually possible, and lots of fun doing”
http://www.ru.nl/politicologie/koppeling/verloo/
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2103 Recipient - Drude Dahlerup
Drude Dahlerup is professor emerita at Stockholm University. She is a Danish citizen, educated from University of Aarhus in Denmark. She has published extensively on women in politics, quota systems, the women's movements and feminist theory. She is the editor of The New Women’s Movement. Feminism and Political Power in Europe and the U.S.A (Sage 1986); Women, Quotas and Politics (Routledge 2006) and the forthcoming Breaking Male Dominance in old Democracies (with Monique Leyenaar, Oxford Univ. Press). She wrote a two volume book in Danish, Rødstrømperne, about the development, newthinking and impact of the Danish new women’s liberation movement, 1970-85 (Gyldendal 1998). Together with International IDEA and the Inter-Parliamentary Union she and her research team are operating the global web site on quotas: www.quotaproject.org . She has also worked as a consultant on women’s political empowerment and quota systems in Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Kosovo and Tunisia. She has recently been appointed to the Global Civil Society Advisory Group to Michelle Barchelet, dir. of UNWomen. Together with Lenita Freidenvall she edited the report “Electoral Gender Quota Systems and their Implementation in Europe”, requested by the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, 2009, up-dated 2011 (PE 408.309).Among her most recent projects is “New Avenues for Women in Public Life in the Arab Region” (2012-14) in partnership with CAWTAR, Center of Arab Women Training and Research, based in Tunis.
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2009 Co-Recipients: Joni Lovenduski and Joyce Outshoorn
Professors Joni Lovenduski (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) and Joyce Outshoorn (University of Leiden, Netherlands) were awarded the first Gender and Politics Career Achievement Award at the 2009 ECPR General Conference in Potsdam, Germany, 10-12 September 2009.
Professor Lovenduski’s nomination highlighted her “pioneering research on the representation of women in politics and public life and her long-standing contribution to women and politics within ECPR. Her work has led to a raft of well-regarded academic and policy oriented publications: Professor Lovenduski’s research has altered perceptions of the problem of women’s under-representation and obliged political parties to take measures to confront the issue of women’s legislative recruitment. Her work has also led to important inputs to debates on these issues at the European level, through her role as consultant to the European Commission and the Council of Europe. As one of the first generation of gender and politics scholars in the UK, Professor Lovenduski has acted as a mentor and inspiration for subsequent generations, not least through her own research, but also as one of the founders of the PSA Women and Politics Specialist group, the founder of the Standing Group on Women and Politics of the European Consortium for Political Research and, at the individual level, in actively encouraging and supporting younger researchers.”
Professor Outshoorn’s nomination highlighted her “outstanding international contribution to the comparative literature on gender and politics, spanning such topics as the women’s movement, abortion politics, state feminism, trafficking and prostitution. Theoretically her work has been grounded in social movement theory, policy processes, organizational and state theory; and a major theme in her research has been linking movement actors to policy processes. Often she has focused on the Dutch case, putting it in comparative perspective; but she has also authored introductory and concluding chapters providing insightful syntheses of country comparisons. Equally important, but less visible, are the processes of collaborative research that lie behind these books, and here Joyce has played a key role through her constructive criticisms and generally keeping the projects on track. She has also been a mentor and model for a new generation of feminist scholars. Many of the books have grown out of ECPR workshops, which makes it all the more fitting that Joyce Outshoorn should receive the award.”
Professor Lovenduski’s nomination highlighted her “pioneering research on the representation of women in politics and public life and her long-standing contribution to women and politics within ECPR. Her work has led to a raft of well-regarded academic and policy oriented publications: Professor Lovenduski’s research has altered perceptions of the problem of women’s under-representation and obliged political parties to take measures to confront the issue of women’s legislative recruitment. Her work has also led to important inputs to debates on these issues at the European level, through her role as consultant to the European Commission and the Council of Europe. As one of the first generation of gender and politics scholars in the UK, Professor Lovenduski has acted as a mentor and inspiration for subsequent generations, not least through her own research, but also as one of the founders of the PSA Women and Politics Specialist group, the founder of the Standing Group on Women and Politics of the European Consortium for Political Research and, at the individual level, in actively encouraging and supporting younger researchers.”
Professor Outshoorn’s nomination highlighted her “outstanding international contribution to the comparative literature on gender and politics, spanning such topics as the women’s movement, abortion politics, state feminism, trafficking and prostitution. Theoretically her work has been grounded in social movement theory, policy processes, organizational and state theory; and a major theme in her research has been linking movement actors to policy processes. Often she has focused on the Dutch case, putting it in comparative perspective; but she has also authored introductory and concluding chapters providing insightful syntheses of country comparisons. Equally important, but less visible, are the processes of collaborative research that lie behind these books, and here Joyce has played a key role through her constructive criticisms and generally keeping the projects on track. She has also been a mentor and model for a new generation of feminist scholars. Many of the books have grown out of ECPR workshops, which makes it all the more fitting that Joyce Outshoorn should receive the award.”