Working Group 1

Working Group 1

Gender equality in Europe: research, politics and training

ATGENDER SPRING CONFERENCE 2011: Feminist legacies – Feminist Futures – Connecting research, teaching and gender equality in Europe

8-10 April 2011 Utrecht

GREATpolicies: Gender Research and Teaching for Policies

Working Group 1 founded a permanent interest group on gender equality in Europe and discussed goals and activities. Choosing the name GREATpolicies: Gender Research and Teaching for Policies, the group’s goal is to stimulate research and exchange between scholars, policy makers and activists working for gender equality in Europe. The group discussed in depth a number of tasks for the coming years including the following:

• Exploring new contextual realities;

• Analyzing the role gender equality policies may have in crisis (not only economical);

• Continuing exploration, monitoring & evaluation of main policy approaches such as mainstreaming;

• Studying national and European policies, how they influence each other;

• Transferring/exchange of gender research to society and societal impact on gender knowledge production and use: mechanisms and actors in different contexts;

• Linking to European themes: 2020- SMART Gender policies including diversity of women and men and their role in building Europe

They also underlined the many common overlaps with other AtGender groups such as Traveling Concepts, Gender and new technologies, Society and social welfare and the teaching of Gender Studies and identified potential common projects.

Among the activities the group hopes to initiate would be a special conference on feminist policies at the EU Parliament, collaboration with the Research Network Gender and the State and a high participation in the theme Triple Helix of Social Inclusion at the 8th Feminist Research conference where group member Alison Woodward will be part of the scientific committee. A call for papers for the stream will be circulated to relevant networks including the ECPR Gender and Politics Group, QUING, FemCit network members, The RNGS network, The European Sociological Association and the European Insititute of Gender Equality and the group hopes to organize a special panel session with policy makers. They hope to have a pre-conference session to plan the European Parliament activity further and discuss a mid-term activity for policy makers in Spain in 2013.

If you would like to join this group please send a request to info@atgender.eu
Please, Include the Working Group number in the subject area + “REQUEST”