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4. Gender, Power and Corporatism

Author

Elomäki, Anna, Kantola, Johanna, Koskinen Sandberg, Paula, Kantola, Johanna, Series Editor, Childs, Sarah, Series Editor, Elomäki, Anna, editor, and Koskinen Sandberg, Paula, editor

Published
2022
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12. Political group formation in the European parliament: Negotiating democracy and gender.

Author

Ahrens, Petra and Kantola, Johanna

Subjects
*DEMOCRACY, *GENDER role, *POLITICAL parties, *SUPRANATIONALISM
Abstract

Political group formation in the European Parliament (EP) after European elections is a core feature of supranational party politics. The research objective of this article is to scrutinise democratic practices and the role of values, more specifically gender equality, in this political group formation. Complementing extant literature, this article engages with gendered political group formation as a dynamic process consisting of three intertwined layers, which are assessed by analysing formal and informal institutions around democracy and gender. The article draws on a unique data set of 130 interviews with MEPs, political group and parliamentary staff conducted in 2018–2020. The key findings of the article show that gender plays a role in each layer of political group formation, yet there are clear differences between political groups. By deciphering the reasons behind these differences, the article enhances the understanding of the political dynamics and struggles within the political groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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17. European Social Partners as Gender Equality Actors in EU Social and Economic Governance

Author

Elomäki, Anna and Kantola, Johanna

Subjects
Economics and Econometrics, Gender equality, 05 social sciences, Economic governance, General Business, Management and Accounting, 0506 political science, 050903 gender studies, Political economy, Political science, Political Science and International Relations, Social partners, 050602 political science & public administration, media_common.cataloged_instance, 0509 other social sciences, Business and International Management, European union, Social policy, media_common
Published
2020

18. Gendering the Representative Work of the European Parliament: A Political Analysis of Women MEP's Perceptions of Gender Equality in Party Groups*

Author

Kantola, Johanna, Rolandsen Agustín, Lise, Yhteiskuntatieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Social Sciences, and Tampere University

Subjects
Valtio-oppi, hallintotiede - Political science, European parliament, gender, Original Article, institutions, Original Articles, party groups, gender equality
Abstract

European Parliament's (EP) party groups are crucial to democratic representation in the EU. Much of the academic research about party groups has been gender‐blind. This article draws on qualitative methods to undertake a gender analysis of EP party groups. The article analyses the gendered experiences of women MEPs from two Nordic countries, Denmark and Finland, and draws on interview data with 18 women MEPs from these two member states to explore their perceptions of gender equality in the political groups. The findings illustrate that party groups exhibit some shared and some diversified gendered norms as well as concrete practices for advancing the position of women, including informal women's networks. We draw attention to the shortcomings in m/paternity leave rights in the EP and the lack of political will within the party groups to tackle this, which is further cementing exclusionary practices of the institution.

Published
2019

19. Reframing the language of human rights? Political group contestations on women's and LGBTQI rights in European Parliament debates.

Author

Ahrens, Petra, Gaweda, Barbara, and Kantola, Johanna

Subjects
WOMEN'S rights, GENDER inequality, LINGUISTIC rights, HUMAN rights, WOMEN'S societies & clubs, FRAMES (Social sciences)
Abstract

European integration is challenged on numerous grounds today with democracy and fundamental values at the center of the debates. The article analyses the role of the European Parliament's political groups in shaping human rights as a core democratic value and the ways in which religion and gender equality are utilized. The research material consists of plenary debates and 130 MEP and staff interviews in the 8th and 9th legislatures. We discern three clusters in the ways in which the political groups frame human rights and gender equality: (i) 'the defenders', (ii) 'the reframers', and those (iii) 'sitting on the fence'. Our analysis illustrates that core EU values such as human rights and equality are defended, challenged, and reframed by the political groups to an extent that they constitute key lines of division not only in between but also within the political groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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21. Strategies of right populists in opposing gender equality in a polarized European Parliament.

Author

Kantola, Johanna and Lombardo, Emanuela

Subjects
*GENDER inequality, *RIGHT & left (Political science), *GENDER, *LEGISLATIVE bodies
Abstract

An increasingly polarized European Parliament (EP) has become an important site of radical right populist opposition to gender equality. Through a qualitative analysis of populist interventions in EP plenary debates on gender equality in the 8th legislature (2014–2019), this article identifies the discursive strategies adopted by right populists to oppose gender equality. It contributes to scholarly debates on populisms and on gender and politics by respectively suggesting to the former the need to dedicate attention to gender equality as a central aspect in populist ideologies, and to the latter the importance of considering a variety of strategies of radical right opposition to gender equality. Radical right populist strategies include not only indirect but also direct opposition to gender equality and draw on old and traditional gender imaginaries packaged in novel populist ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021
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23. The Europeanization of Nordic Gender Equality: A Foucauldian Analysis of Reconciling Work and Family in Finland.

Author

Eräranta, Kirsi and Kantola, Johanna

Subjects
*GENDER inequality, *RECONCILIATION, *EUROPEANIZATION, *GOVERNMENTALITY, *FAMILY-work relationship
Abstract

In this article, we analyse the case of reconciling work and family as a particularly illuminative example of the effects of soft Europeanization. We focus on one particular policy instrument of the EU, namely projects co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), which have sought to develop family-friendly arrangements in Finnish workplaces. Our analysis suggests that this soft law instrument can result in significant changes in member states, even in cases where the member state's own policy is well entrenched. Theoretically, our contribution is to connect soft Europeanization to the Foucauldian theory on power, and the literature on Analytics of Government specifically. From this perspective we argue that the ESF development projects function as Foucauldian 'technologies of involvement'. We find that by stabilizing and normalizing project techniques and managerial rationalities untypical for previous gender equality and work-family policies in the country, the ESF projects in our case partly challenge some established principles of Nordic welfare policies, such as universalism and state responsibility for welfare measures. Moreover, as ESF projects have managed to involve mainly female-dominated organizations and women as participants, we pose the question whether this kind of soft-law instrument that trusts the self-regulation capacities of actors can bring about change in gendered conventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016
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40. Introduction: Why Gender and the EU?

Author

Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, Rahime, Cin, F. Melis, Kantola, Johanna, Series Editor, Childs, Sarah, Series Editor, Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, Rahime, editor, and Cin, F. Melis, editor

Published
2021
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50. Introduction

Author

Köttig, Michaela, Blum, Alice, Kantola, Johanna, Series editor, Childs, Sarah, Series editor, Köttig, Michaela, editor, Bitzan, Renate, editor, and Petö, Andrea, editor

Published
2017
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