Gender Empowerment through Politics In Classrooms

确保民主的未来需要赋予所有社会群体参与的权力，但政治领导力、政治抱负和政治自我效能方面的性别差距是西方民主国家中最持久、最难以解决的问题。如果从性别、社会阶层和种族的交叉点来看，情况就更加严重。这些差异已被证明是开始在学校和课堂动态已被引用为可能的社会化过程，导致这些不同的结果。G-EPIC是一个由大学和民间社会组织组成的跨国联盟，其目的是促进社会创新和测试干预措施，以减少政治中的性别不平等。6个国家（比利时、捷克、丹麦、德国、西班牙和联合王国）的7个合作伙伴将开始，通过课堂观察和对现有定量数据的重新分析来确定现状，以了解人们是如何了解对政治参与的态度和倾向方面的不平等的。G-EPIC将在学校进行实验，并与民间社会、教师和学生共同开发基于设计的干预措施。这些实验和干预措施将通过与对照组进行比较而得到严格的评价，并将导致制定“课堂中的性别赋权”干预措施，该措施将在欧洲各地的学校传播和实施，从而为政治领导层中的真实的变革和缩小性别差距创造可能性。此外，两性平等和政治参与方案还将对国家背景以及地方和欧洲政策框架进行全面评估，以制定有利于两性更公平参与政治的战略、法规和政策，特别是弱势背景的女孩。

Ensuring the future of democracy requires empowering all social group to engage, yet the gender gap in political leadership, political ambition and political self-efficacy is the most persistent and most difficult to tackle across Western democracies. The situation when looking across the intersect of gender, social class and ethnicity becomes even more grave. These differences have been shown to begin in the school and classroom dynamics has been cited as the likely socialisation process that leads to these different outcomes. G-EPIC, a multinational consortium of universities and civil society organisations, has been brought together with the aim of fostering social innovation and testing interventions to reduce gender inequality in politics. The 7 partners in 6 countries (Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom) will begin by establishing the state of play through classroom observations and reanalysis of existing quantitative data to understand how inequalities in attitudes and dispositions towards political engagement are learnt. G-EPIC will then create experiments in schools and pilot design-based interventions co-developed with civil-society, teachers and students. These experiments and interventions will be rigorously evaluated in comparisons with control groups and will lead to the development of the Gender Empowerment in Classroom intervention that will be disseminated and delivered in schools across Europe creating the possibility for real change and the reduction of the gender gap in political leadership. In addition, G-EPIC will also carry out a holistic evaluation of the national context and the local and European policy framework to design strategies, regulations and policies that are conducive to a more equitable gender political involvement, particularly of girls with a disadvantaged background.