QUING
Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies

FP6 Integrated Project - 2006-2011

Mieke Verloo - Scientific Director

Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) - Coordinator

Understanding Europe: the case of gender+ equality policies

The European Union values diversity and inclusion; yet at the level of its member states, many examples of exclusion and polarization can be found, whether the focus is on gender, ethnicity, religion or sexuality. The research project “Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies (QUING)” tackles these issues to provide the knowledge for inclusive gender+ equality policies. On October 13-15, the QUING kick-off meeting, which took place at the IWM, gathered the project partners from all over Europe to discuss the challenges ahead, get to know and enjoy each other and make detailed plans for the coming six months. QUING is funded within the European Commission’s 6th Framework Program and will last for 54 months (2006-2011).

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Papers presented:

• Feride Acar, Gülbanu Altunok: Paths, Borders and Bridges: Impact of Ethnicity and Religion on Women’s Movement in Turkey


• Alba Alonso: Institutionalizing intersectionality in Portugal: towards a multiple approach


• Alba Alonso and Maxime Forest: Is gender equality soluble into self-governance? Europeanizing gender at the sub-national level in Spain


• Jo Armstrong, Sylvia Walby and Sofia Strid: Intersectionality and the quality of gendered employment policy


• Susanne Baer, Janet Keim, Lucy Nowottnick: Intersectionality in Gender + Training


• Maria Bustelo and Maxime Forest: The politics of intersectionality in Spain: Shaping intersectional approaches in a multi-level polity


• Maria Carbin, Hannele Harjunen and Elin Kvist: Children and Fathers first? - Fertility Treatment Policies in Denmark, Finland and Sweden


• Jasminka Dedić: Roma in European gender equality policy debates: intersectionalized and feminized


• Maxime Forest and Emanuela Lombardo: Beyond the ‘worlds of compliance’: a sociological and discursive approach to the Europeanisation of gender equality policies


• Ana Frank: Rethinking the effects of Europeanization: Civil society and state framing of gender equality policies in Turkey and Croatia


• Elena del Giorgio and Emanuela Lombardo: Institutionalising intersectionality in Italy: gatekeepers and political dynamics


• Martin Jaigma: On the interface between civil society and state and its implications for the quality of gender equality policies in Estonia


• July Jarty: Women and employment: Does France go it alone?


• Erika Kispeter: Family policy debates in post-state socialist Hungary: from maternalism to gender equality


• Andrea Krizsan & Raluca Popa: Frames in Contestation. Domestic Violence Policy Debates in Five Countries of Central and Eastern Europe


• Andrea Krizsan & Raluca Popa: Stretching EU Conditionality: Mechanisms of Europeanization in Making Domestic Violence Policies in Central and Eastern Europe


• Andrea Krizsan, Raluca Popa and Viola Zentai: Intersectionality: who’s concern? Institutionalizing equality policy in new Central and Eastern European Members States of the EU


• Roman Kuhar: In the background of non-discrimination discourse: From the rights of same-sex partners to the rights of children. The use of the Europeanization frame in non-heterosexual intimacy policies in Europe


• Elin Kvist and Elin Peterson: Norms and silences in gender equality policies: an analysis of policy debates on domestic services in Spain and Sweden


• Elin Kvist, Maria Carbin, Hannele Harjunen: Domestic Services or Maid? Discourses on Gender Equality, Work and Integration in Nordic Policy Debate


• Sophie Lauwers and Saskia Martens: Accommodating multiple discrimination. Equality bodies in Belgium and the Netherlands analyzed from an intersectional gender perspective


• Emanuela Lombardo and María Bustelo: The political treatment of inequalities in Europe: a comparative analysis of Italy, Portugal and Spain


• Emanuela Lombardo and Lise Rolandsen Agustín: Framing gender intersections in the European Union: what implications for the quality of intersectionality in policies?


• Emanuela Lombardo and Mieke Verloo: Institutionalising intersectionality in the European Union? Policy developments and contestations


• Zuzana Ocenasova: Europeanization of gender equality policies through the needle's eye of Slovakia and the Czech Republic


• Maro Pantelidou Maloutas: Gender policies as means of Europeanization: The case of Greece


• Vilana Pilinkaite-Sotirovic: Limits of Europeanization: marriage, family and reproduction policies in Lithuania


• Ingrid Röder: Gender+ equality policies as Europeanisation of old and new member states? An ongoing process


• Karin Tertinegg: Going international? Civil society voices and the role of international actors in Austrian and German gender equality policies


• Doris Urbanek: Towards processual intersectional policy analysis


• Sylvia Walby, Jo Armstrong and Sofia Strid: Intersectionality and the quality of equality architecture in Britain