European Union

Section Chairs:
Gill Allwood (Nottingham Trent University) Email
Eva-Maria Eucher (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich) Email

Description:
Gender equality is claimed by the EU to be one of its founding principles, yet scholars have repeatedly and consistently demonstrated the gap between rhetoric and reality. The pay gap; the underrepresentation of women in sites of political and economic decision making; their overrepresentation in care-giving in the domestic, private and public sphere; and the persistence of gender-based violence against women, all demonstrate that 60 years after the introduction of equal pay for equal work in Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome, gender equality in the EU has yet to be achieved.

This section invites panels and papers which engage with the European Union from a gender perspective. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Explaining changes in the EU’s gender equality policy and policymaking
Actors, institutions and frames
Policy Agendas
Civil society actors and the EU
Presence of women in EU decision making
Gendered impact of EU policy
Gender equality policy in the Member States
The relation between gender mainstreaming, diversity mainstreaming, and the mainstreaming of other crosscutting issues, such as human rights and climate change
Crisis
Migration and migrants
Islam and gender
Trafficking
Rise of the extreme right
Brexit
Demographic crisis and care deficit

Theoretical, methodological and empirical papers are all welcome