Unintended gender consequences: EU politics and politics in practice

该项目将在一些欧洲和北美机构的欧盟性别政治领域的主要学者之间建立研究伙伴关系。它将汇集性别和政治研究方面的研究人员和英才中心，如贝尔法斯特女王大学提高妇女参政地位中心。部分资金还针对早期职业研究人员，特别是研究生，使他们能够为国际伙伴关系的工作做出贡献，并向他们介绍各自研究领域的关键人物，该网络的目的是支持性别和欧盟政治领域的重要工作。这笔资金将使我们能够在即将出版的《妇女研究国际论坛》特刊的初步调查结果的基础上再接再厉，从而评估传统上被描述为“性别中立”或“无性别”的欧洲政策的意外性别后果。最近的几项研究审查了欧盟政策如何以及在多大程度上促进了国家性别制度、性别政策和性别关系的转变。这些研究考虑了国家政策的变化，以及这些变化可能是由欧洲政策转变和/或其他成员国或欧盟层面的行动主义所促成的。该网络将促进目前关于将性别观点纳入主流作为一项政策工具的价值和影响的讨论。该网络将与主要的执行者建立联系，并努力提高对限制性别政策在欧洲和国家一级影响的体制驱动因素的认识，该网络将参与对预期和非预期后果的理论探索，从而建立一个分析框架，以比较不同的政策领域。人们越来越关注关键政策的意外后果或结果。这一新焦点的一个例子是福塞特协会在2010年对英国联合政府的指控。在这一领域开展的工作突出表明，需要在政策分析方面进行范式转变，着眼于从业人员可利用的制约因素和机会，以探索和考虑到某一特定政策方针可能产生的所有影响。同样，该网络将要开展的工作将提请注意可用于尽量减少经济和财政政策以及对外关系等关键政策领域的性别影响的措施。我们的网络将开展的工作是对欧洲政策对国内性别制度和性别关系的“意外”或间接后果进行批判性评估。我们在一般认为不属于“妇女政策”范围的政策领域中研究这一点。因此，这一重要评价将促进性别平等主流化领域的知识转让，并制定经验项目，探索在其他各种政策领域执行这些原则。该研究网络将包括一个研讨会、两个网络管理会议，以评估各个研究项目的进展情况（UACES 2012和2013），申请在ECPR联合会议上举办研讨会（2013），以及2014年的项目结束会议。该联合会的最终目标是通过促进跨学科知识交流，促进开发原始大额赠款申请，评估里斯本会议后欧盟最近的政策发展。

This project will build a research partnership between leading scholars in EU gender politics at a number of European and North American institutions. It will bring together individual researchers and centres of excellence on the study of gender and politics, such as the Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics at Queen's University Belfast. Part of the funding is also targeted at early career researchers, particularly postgraduate students, to enable them to contribute to the work of the international partnership and introducing them to key figures in their field of research.The aim of the network is to support critical work in the field of gender and EU politics. The funding will enable us to build on the initial findings in a forthcoming special issue of Women's Studies International Forum, thus evaluating the unintended gender consequences of European policies traditionally portrayed as "gender neutral" or "gender free". Several recent studies have examined how, and to what extent EU policy contributes to shifts in national gender regimes, gender policy and gender relations. These studies consider the changes in national policy and the manner in which these may have been precipitated by European policy shifts and/or activism in other member states or at the EU level. This network will contribute to ongoing discussions about the value and impact of gender mainstreaming as a policy tool. It will establish contact with key practitioners and seek to raise awareness of institutional drivers that limit the impact of gender policies at the European and national level.The network will engage both in a theoretical exploration of intended and unintended consequences, therefore establishing an analytical framework for the comparison of different policy areas. Increasing attention is being paid to unintended consequences or outcomes of key policies. An example of this new focus is the Fawcett Society's case against the UK Coalition Government in 2010. The work conducted in this area highlights the need for a paradigm shift in policy analysis looking at the constraints and opportunities available to practitioners to explore and take account of all the possible repercussion of a particular policy approach. Equally the work to be undertaken by the network will draw attention to the measures that can be utilised in order to minimise the gendered impact of key policy areas such as economic and fiscal policy as well as external relations. The work to be undertaken by our network is a critical assessment of the 'unintended' or indirect consequences of European policy on domestic gender regimes and gender relations. We examine this in policy areas which are generally believed to fall outside 'women's policy'. This critical evaluation will thus enable knowledge transfer in the area of gender mainstreaming and the development of empirical projects exploring the implementation of these principles in a variety of other policy areas. The research network will include one workshop, two network management meetings to evaluate progress of individual research projects (UACES 2012 and 2013), an application for a workshop at ECPR joint sessions (2013), and an end of project Conference in 2014. The ultimate objective of the consortium is to facilitate, through the promotion of inter-disciplinary knowledge exchange, the development of original large grant applications evaluating recent EU policy developments post-Lisbon.