Project description
Assessing the impact of gender quotas
Promoting gender equality in politics, the labour market, and public life is essential for building a fair and inclusive society. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the GAPP project will evaluate policy tools aimed at closing gender gaps across Europe. It will analyse the effects of gender quotas on women’s representation in the European Parliament. Using data from the 2024 EU elections, the project will also investigate differences in public trust towards institutions. Additionally, it will assess the role of female politicians in shaping Denmark’s gender policies, focusing on the country’s parental leave reform, to understand how these initiatives influence governance.
Objective
Achieving gender equality in politics, the labour market, and public life is essential for fostering a fair and inclusive society. This project explores the effectiveness of key policy tools aimed at closing gender gaps across Europe. The first part of the study examines the impact of gender quotas - both hard quotas like parity laws and soft quotas like voluntary party commitments - on womens representation in the European Parliament, drawing on data from the 2024 EU elections. Additionally, it analyses growing gender-based disparities in trust and perceptions of public institutions. The second part of the project evaluates the role of female politicians in shaping gender equality policies, with a specific focus on Denmarks recently introduced earmarked parental leave reform. Through innovative quasi-experimental research methods and text analysis, the project will assess both political discourse and policy outcomes, providing valuable insights into how gender equality initiatives impact public life and governance across Europe. Ultimately, this research will contribute to a deeper understanding of the demand for and effectiveness of gender equality policies, as well as their broader social and political implications.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionselections
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policies
- social scienceslaw
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinator
20136 Milano
Italy