Opportunity and Setback? Gender Equality, Crisis and Change in the EU

Weiner, Elaine; MacRae, Heather

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50778-1_4

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“…As Jacquot (2015) and others (Guerrina & Masselot, 2018; Kantola & Lombardo, 2017; Weiner & MacRae, 2017) have demonstrated, gender equality frequently takes a backseat during times of crisis. In the past, small setbacks to gender equality were typically readdressed following the crisis and as the process of integration restarted.…”

Section: The Eu Its Gender Regime and Crisismentioning

confidence: 96%

“…However, these aspirations did not materialize. Rather than upend ‘long-standing neoliberal rules of the game’, policy-makers opted to ‘reinscribe the standing institutional order ... EU policy responses to the crisis reaffirmed and fortified its collective neoliberal rationale and the stronghold of male power’ (Weiner & MacRae, 2017, p. 86). The EU has not only missed an opportunity to restructure its institutions along, at the very least, more gender-equal lines, it has foregone the chance to reform the market to be underpinned by the fundamental value of gender equality.…”

Section: The Eu Its Gender Regime and Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Feminist Reflections on the EU’s Crisis Responses

MacRae

Guerrina

Masselot

2021

International Studies

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As critics are quick to point out, the European Union (EU) has entered the crisis phase of its evolution. It could be argued that crisis management is now the EU’s new normal. Dealing with both endogenous (e.g., economic crisis and Brexit) and exogenous crises (e.g., the migrant crisis and COVID-19), the EU is facing a whole new set of challenges that has the potential to destabilize the complex institutional balance that has maintained the process of European integration over the last 70 years. In this environment of rapid responses, gender+ equality has frequently been compromised. As we argue in this article, the implications of this backsliding are grave not only for equality but also for the European Union as a whole. Drawing on Walby’s concept of gender regimes and social transformation, we consider current crises and the EU’s responses to those crises to highlight potentially dangerous shifts in the European gender regime. With crisis response increasingly supporting a neo-liberal gender regime, the current state of perpetual crisis in the European institutions does not bode well for the future of equality.

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Section: The Eu Its Gender Regime and Crisismentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: The Eu Its Gender Regime and Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Feminist Reflections on the EU’s Crisis Responses

MacRae

Guerrina

Masselot

2021

International Studies

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“…Feminist scholars analyse the effects of austerity on gender equality policies at national and supranational levels (e.g. Jacquot, 2017; Lombardo, 2017a, 2017b; Weiner and MacRae, 2017). Kantola and Lombardo (2017) argue that the EU and its member states have enforced a new ‘economic governance regime’ in the course of the economic crisis, which marginalises topics of gender and social equality altogether.…”

Section: The Economic Crisis In Europe: Setback or Window Of Opportunmentioning

confidence: 99%

Depoliticising Gender Equality in Turbulent Times: The Case of the European Gender Action Plan for External Relations

Beier

Çağlar

2020

Political Studies Review

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Since more than a decade, the EU is confronted with a number of crises that significantly changed the environment under which the EU operates in the field of gender equality. Evidence shows, that in many European countries, the different crises have led to a deprioritisation of gender equality policies. However, the way in which the new Gender Action Plan for External Relations 2015–2020 of the European Union addresses and operationalises gender equality suggests in contrast a policy shift towards an intensified commitment and more comprehensive understanding of gender. Against this background, this article analyses, first, how the content and the conceptual orientation of gender equality policies in European Union’s external relations have changed in the light of post-crisis recommendations. Second, the article scrutinises the ways in which the European Union tries to tackle the credibility crisis through increasingly intensified and operationalised policy procedures. The argument put forth is that the gender-related indicators in the Gender Action Plan translate complex societal processes into a technical data-based framework and thereby depoliticise gender equality by simulating a technocratic, evidence-based and quantified form of politics.

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“…These shifts started prior to the financial crisis, but have been intensified by the economic crisis (Jacquot, 2017;Kantola & Lombardo, 2017). The increased marginalisation of actors and policies promoting gender equality in the EU during the financial and political crises undermined efforts to address the gendered impact of the responses to the crises (Weiner & MacRae, 2017).…”

Section: Gendered Government Responses To the Great Recession In Compmentioning

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Do gender regimes matter? Gender differences in involvement in anti-austerity protests - a comparison of Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom

Roth

Saunders

2019

Social Movement Studies

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Responses to the Great Recession are varied across welfare states and gendered in their consequences. Combining gender, social policy and social movement scholarship, this paper investigates how the differential policy responses to the Financial Crisis in three European countries shaped gender-differences in antiausterity demonstrations. We compare the involvement and characteristics of women and men in anti-austerity protests using data collected at street demonstrations (2010-2012). We conduct crossnational multi-level analysis of demonstrators from countries representing different gender regimes (Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom). Our results show that gender regimes have a significant impact on women's and men's involvement in anti-austerity protests. We thus make an important contribution to research on gender differences in participation in anti-austerity demonstrations post-Great Recession. Our comparison of women's and men's participation in anti-austerity street demonstrations suggests that at the country or regime level resources matter more than grievances, but that grievances matter at the individual level. This innovative paper links scholarship on gender regimes with research on protest participation. Resources and experiences of grievances are shaped by gender regimes which provide access to decision-making and social support. We reveal novel insights into the connection between gender regimes and demonstration participation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Opportunity and Setback? Gender Equality, Crisis and Change in the EU

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Feminist Reflections on the EU’s Crisis Responses

A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Feminist Reflections on the EU’s Crisis Responses

Depoliticising Gender Equality in Turbulent Times: The Case of the European Gender Action Plan for External Relations

Do gender regimes matter? Gender differences in involvement in anti-austerity protests - a comparison of Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom

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