Author Meets Critics Roundtable: Policy When Implementation Stalls: The Uphill Battle for Equal Pay (OUP, 2026)

Abstract

The goal of this proposed author’s meets critics roundtable is to engage in a cross-cutting dialog about the newest book, edited by Isabelle Engeli and Amy G. Mazur, from the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network ( https://geppn.com/) on equal pay policy implementation at the EU level, Australia Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Germany, France, Norway, Spain, Sweden the UK, the USA. Each roundtable participant brings a different perspective about the book and its major findings --that government action for equal pay has been one of the most resistant areas of gender equality policy tending towards “stalled” policy implementation across a broad range of countries. Panel participants will take a critical look at the book through their scholarly lenses including collective bargaining, democratic backsliding, resistance/ counter resistance and policy implementation, equal pay reporting and more practice-oriented lenses of policy actors in multi-level feminist governance . Both editors and book contributors will have an opportunity to respond to the “critics”.

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Discussing POLICY WHEN IMPLEMENTATION STALLS from an Academic Perspective: Collective Bargaining and Equal Pay Policy in Norway and Iceland	View Paper Details
Discussing POLICY WHEN IMPLEMENTATION STALLS from a Policy Actor Perspective: Head of the Division of Gender Equality in Sweden	View Paper Details
Discussing POLICY WHEN IMPLEMENTATION STALLS from an Academic Perspective: Democratic Erosion and Gender-Based Violence Policy in Central Eastern Europe	View Paper Details
Discussing POLICY WHEN IMPLEMENTATION STALLS from an Academic and Policy Actor Perspective: European Expter on Gender Pay Gap Reporting and Equal Pay Policy in the UK	View Paper Details
Responses to the Critics: Co Editor of PolicyWhen Implementation Stalls	View Paper Details