“What use is the legislation to me?” Contestations around the meanings of gender equality in legislation and its strategic use to drive structural change in university organizations

Tildesley, Rebecca; Barbera, MaríaCaterina La; Lombardo, Emanuela

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“…Table 2 summarises the strategic goals, the levels of observation, and the actions to be taken. Through this exercise, a series of actions were established, steering the consortium away from the traditional "fixing women approach" (Schiebinger, 2021), which historically focuses on preparing women to conform to the male-dominated status quo (Tildesley et al, 2023). Instead, the approach shifted towards one that seeks to transform discriminatory social structures and gendered norms, addressing the root causes of unequal outcomes (Benschop and Verloo, 2011).…”

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Exploring the nexus of gender and environment in the H2020 PHOENIX project: insights from the design of a gender equality plan

Esteves,

Holz,

Lopes

et al. 2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Introduction: The H2020-funded PHOENIX project (2022–2025) aims to enhance democratic innovations to implement the European Green Deal (EGD) at local, regional, and national levels, focusing on key policy areas like farm-to-fork, circular economy, energy transition, and healthy soil. Despite the European Green Deal’s ambitious goals for a climate-neutral Europe by 2050, it primarily emphasizes technological solutions and overlooks social vulnerabilities like gender, class, and race. In the light of the European Commission’s efforts to promote gender equality in EU-funded projects through the implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs), the study carried out a comprehensive literature review aimed at gaining insights into the intricate relationship between gender and the environment with a particular focus on the intersection of gender and research and innovation, especially within the context of the European Green Deal. Drawing on their experience as action researchers developing a Gender Equality Plan within the H2020 PHOENIX project, the authors emphasize the importance of gender-sensitive research in environmental projects and underscore the significance of a participatory approach in achieving effective gender change. The lack of reporting on experiences of incorporating a gender perspective has resulted in a significant knowledge gap regarding the various impacts that environmental actions can have on people’s lives, based on their gender. The article endeavours to bridge this gap by achieving two main goals: highlighting the importance of gender-sensitive research in environmental projects and discussing how the gender gap is addressed in the H2020 PHOENIX project through its participatory approach to design the Gender Equality Plan.Methods: This paper reports on the participatory approach adopted within the H2020 PHOENIX project to develop a Gender Equality Plan. This participatory approach draws from literature that underscores the advantages of collaboration in effecting change towards gender equality. This method entailed the active engagement of all project partners during a co-creation session for creating a gender equality plan held during the annual project meeting and has underpinned the comprehensive PHOENIX gender mainstreaming framework.Findings and discussion: The results of the co-creation session for creating a Gender Equality Plan provided a robust foundation for the comprehensive approach to mainstreaming gender within the PHOENIX project that could guide the project towards a more gender-sensitive research. This analytical and planning phase, despite being an early stage, became the cornerstone of the gender equality plan and also defined the specific steps and actions needed to address the gender topic effectively within the consortium. This process led to the identification of strategic goals and actions aligned with specific goals of the project and intertwined with the challenges of the Democratic Innovations’ capacity of developing their full transformative potential when dealing with environmental topics. The strategic goals were then transformed by the PHOENIX partners into levels of observation and specific actions to be adopted within the consortium.

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“…Firstly, these actions focused on actively avoid reproducing harmful gender stereotypes and roles that maintain women's disadvantage (Tildesley et al, 2023). The actions proposed promoting diverse and inclusive representations that challenge preconceived notions and highlight individuality.…”

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Exploring the nexus of gender and environment in the H2020 PHOENIX project: insights from the design of a gender equality plan

Esteves,

Holz,

Lopes

et al. 2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations

Knoppers,

van Doodewaard,

Spaaij

2024

Journal of Sport Management

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Gender can be seen not only as a binary category but also as a performance or doing that is shaped by, and shapes organizational processes and structures that are deeply embedded in (sport) organizations in multiple and complex ways. The purpose of this paper is to explore strategies for addressing the undoing of gender in sport organizations with the use of an overarching or meta-approach. Strategies that aim to undo gender require a recognition of the complexity of regimes of inequality and the need to use incremental steps in the form of small wins while acknowledging change is not linear. The complexity and multiplicity of the gendering of sport organizations should, therefore, be considered a wicked problem. The naming of heterotopias can provide directions or goals for small wins and for addressing the wicked problem of the doing of gender in sport organizations.

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Gender Inequalities in Academia: Multiple Approaches to Closing the Gap

Lombardo,

Naldini,

Poggio

2024

Sociologia Del Lavoro

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This special issue aims to contribute to the debate on gender inequalities in academia and the gender equality policies that address them. In this introduction we offer an overview of the debate and of the main research issues and theoretical perspectives, showing how a multiplicity of approaches are needed for both understanding and transforming higher education institutions. Macro, meso and micro level approaches illuminate the gendered individual, cultural and institutional factors that constrain and enable academic life, with special attention paid to how the neoliberal turn, and its organizational consequences, exacerbates gender inequalities. Women, gender, care, and intersectionality approaches allow scholars to focus on the different gendered or intersectional relationships within academia. Policy-oriented approaches allow us to analyse and assess progress in institutional efforts to close the gap on gender inequalities in academia. Actor-centred studies expose the power struggles between actors that oppose or promote gender equality policies in academia.

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“What use is the legislation to me?” Contestations around the meanings of gender equality in legislation and its strategic use to drive structural change in university organizations

Cited by 3 publications

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Exploring the nexus of gender and environment in the H2020 PHOENIX project: insights from the design of a gender equality plan

Exploring the nexus of gender and environment in the H2020 PHOENIX project: insights from the design of a gender equality plan

(Un)Doing Gender Inequalities in Sport Organizations

Gender Inequalities in Academia: Multiple Approaches to Closing the Gap

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