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Hungarian Association of Women Judges (HAWJ Regional Conference, Budapest 2011

Hungarian Association of Women Judges (HAWJ Regional Conference, Budapest 2011. Gender Equality in a European Policy Landscape: Recent Developments and Challenges Violetta Zentai Central European University. Structure of lecture: European policy space and within that gender equality thinking

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Hungarian Association of Women Judges (HAWJ Regional Conference, Budapest 2011

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  1. Hungarian Association of Women Judges (HAWJRegional Conference, Budapest 2011 Gender Equality in a European Policy Landscape: Recent Developments and Challenges Violetta Zentai Central European University

  2. Structure of lecture: • European policy space and within that gender equality thinking • State of affairs, recent developments • The promises and drawbacks of gender mainstreaming • The puzzle of intersectionality • Surprise topic

  3. European policy making space: • Community law and MSs law; soft law • Decision making and governance structure (multilevel governance) • Institutional architecture • Financial instruments • Open Method of Cooperation (good practice, peer review, monitoring, etc.); voice of civil society

  4. Sources of and inspirations to European gender equality thinking: • US human rights and anti-discrimination legal culture and policy • European anti-discrimination norms and legal framework • Global/transnational gender equality thinking (UN mechanisms: CEDAW, Beijing Platform of Action) and international women’s movement • Broader equality considerations (welfare, social inclusion, diversity, etc.)

  5. Main policy mechanisms and instruments: • Transposition of community law (directives): monitoring of implementation • EU regulations and recommendations on MS institutional machinery • Soft law measures: roadmaps, reports, statistics, recommendations, etc. • Consultation mechanisms (experts groups, civil society interfaces: European Women’s Lobby)

  6. Current state of art in gender equality policy: • Strategy for equality between women and men 2010-2015; COM(2010) 491 final • European Pact for Gender Equality (2011-2020) 7166/11; March 2011, • Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims 2010/0065 COD PE-CONS 69/10 • European Parliamentresolution on priorities and outline of a new EU policy framework to fight violence against women (2010/2209(INI)); April 2011

  7. Gender mainstreaming: • Extraordinary (transformative) potentials • Initial conditions: political will, institutional backing, human resources, monitoring, etc. • Hard and soft versions vs efficiency • Risks and setbacks (losing gender equality content, bureaucratizing equality thinking )

  8. Intersectionality • Conceptualizing multiple inequalities (feminist critical debates, European policy progress) • Difference across the grounds of equality: on the dimension of choice the dimension of visibility, and dimension of change. The categories are also differently situated as to legal institutions such a family law and various institutionalized group-based rights to self-determination. • Better fit to positive action than to anti-discrimination • Institutional changes induced: single equality bodies in Europe

  9. Ranking countries by gender equality framing index (QUING)

  10. QUING project: www.quing.eu

  11. THANK YOU! Comments welcome: vzentai@osi.hu

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