Our e-mail call for persons willing to serve as Deputy Chair for the next two years resulted in Dr. Lenita Freidenvall (University of Stockholm, Sweden)  taking up the challenge, with no additional candidates making themselves known, hence no on-line election took place.

You will find out more about Lenita in the short biographical note to follow. Lenita will ascend to Chair in 2018 after Jennifer Curtin (University of Ackland, New Zealand) who will step in  after Anne Maria Holli (University of Helsinki, Finland) in Poznan.

RC19 (Gender Politics and Policy)

Pre-Congress Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming: Theory and Practice ‒ Research and Teaching

Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

WELCOME - send an e-mail to anne.holli@helsinki.fi for registration

Description

Since the mid-1990s and the UN Conference in Beijing, gender mainstreaming has been hailed as the feminist strategy for bringing gender perspectives into the study and practice of public policy and politics in general, at both the domestic and international level. Scholarship has offered some success stories, at least in comparative terms, with gender mainstreaming being realized in a transformative manner and with gender issues being considered in a ‘politics as usual’, self-evident, and systematic fashion. However, problems and failures in the gender mainstreaming effort appear to be a much more common story.

So is gender mainstreaming still a valid goal and strategy for feminist politics? How can we assess its advantages and disadvantages after twenty years of practicing gender mainstreaming? Are there possibilities for ameliorating the methods and application of this strategy to offset the disadvantages, or is there still a desire to do so? If not, what can we replace it with? And what opportunities and challenges has the concept of intersectionality – and the related strategy of diversity mainstreaming – brought to GM?

IPSA RC 19 (Gender, Politics and Policy), in conjunction with FIIN (Feminism and Institutionalism International Network) are seeking to sponsor a panel on 'Feminist Institutionalism and Gender Equality Policy' at the Second International Conference on Public Policy, to be held at the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, in Milan, 1st-3rd July, 2015.

Jill Vickers and Sarah Maddison are convening a workshop to coincide with the Montreal Congress. Most of the workshop sessions will be held on Saturday 19 July, with an additional panel to be scheduled during the congress itself (date and time yet to be announced.

2011

• August 18 Deadline to submit RC panels

• October 7 Deadline to submit abstract/paper proposals

• November 18 Deadline to submit travel grant applications

• December 2 Submitters are notified of final results

2012

• January 13 Travel grant applicants are notified of final results

• March 11 Registration Deadline for paper givers, discussants and chairs who wish their names to appear in the printed program. All panel chairs must register by this deadline.

• June 1 Deadline for paper presenters to upload papers

If there is any confusion, please go to www.ipsa.org

Theme: “Re-ordering Boundaries, Shifting Power”-Governance Shifts and Gender

We seek papers which may cover but are not limited to the following themes:

-intrastate changes (such as election of Socialists in Spain and the decriminalization of abortion and gay marriage); electoral quota adoption

-interstate changes-whether states are finding ways to cooperate with each other in policy areas such as “sending” and “receiving” countries with respect to migration or refugee status, for example;

-devolution of previously supranational responsibilities to national governments (Lisbon Treaty and delineated role of national Parliaments for first time) and national to subnational (such as “expensive” women’s social policies and assignment to sub-national levels of government where tax and administrative resources are generally fewer);

-the ratification and institutionalization of certain supranational treaties and mechanisms since the last IPSA Congress, such as increased size of EU, ratification of Lisbon Treaty and EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; new UN Agency for Women, headed by former Chilean President Michele Bachelet; and increased number of bilateral trade agreements between Global North and South.

Panels and papers which include comparisons of Global Southern and Northern states are especially sought but all panels and papers will receive enthusiastic consideration!

If interested in submitting papers or panels, please contact RC 19 through www.ipsa.org or individuals: Melissa_haussman@carleton.ca, or sarah.maddison@unsw.edu.au.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 7 October 2011