EU Policy Response to the Economic Crisis and its Gender and Intersectional Consequences

Abstract

The financial and economic crisis of 2008 challenges gender equality policies in the European Union (EU). Whilst the EU is a world leader in commitments to gender equality, its macroeconomic policy is also known to exacerbate gender inequality (Hoskyns 2008). This panel aims at scrutinizing the role of EU policymaking in response to the crisis and its gender and intersectionality consequences both in the EU polity and in member states. Questions to explore include: How are EU policies in response to the crisis affecting gender equality and gender equality policy in member states? What intersections between inequalities are articulated in such response? To what extent has the EU mainstreamed gender and intersectional concerns in its anti-crisis policymaking? What is the articulation of neoliberal and social democratic projects and discourses in the EU and member states, and by which actors are they voiced? How to assess the retrenchment/pausing/de-institutionalization of gender equality policies in the EU and member states as a result of austerity measures?

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