The third EUGenDem workshop session on Gender, democracy and polarised politics in Europe entitled ‘Gendering Representative Institutions: Actors, Inner Lives, and Political Struggles’ took place on 12 March 2021.
The workshop addressed questions of intersectional and gendered representation in parliaments. Cecilia Josefsson spoke about whether age impacts MPs differently and which negative gendered patterns occur for young women compared to other age/gender groups. For the European Parliament, Eva-Maria Euchner and Elena Frech examined the effect of national quotas in supranational European Parliament elections and discussed how the design of quotas influences parliamentary activity.
Chair: Cherry Miller (Tampere University, Finland)
Speakers:
Cecilia Josefsson (Uppsala University, Sweden): The toxic reality for young female MPs: On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament (co-authoring with Josefina Erikson, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Eva-Maria Euchner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany) & Elena Frech (University of Konstanz, Germany): Gender Quotas in the elections to the European Parliament: design, pattern and consequences
Time: March 12th 2021, 11:00-12:30 (EET)
The full program of the EUGenDem workshop series can be found here.
