Women, Participation and the European Parliament

Helene Pristed Nielsen; Lise Rolandsen Agustin

doi:10.1057/9781137291295

Women, Participation and the European Parliament

Helene Pristed Nielsen
, Lise Rolandsen Agustin

Søgu- og samfelagsdeildin - Faculty of History and Social Sciences

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Abstract

The European Parliament (EP) as an institution can be understood as having the potential for becoming ‘a strong public’ which is undergoing a process of building a wider general public: ‘The EP can be conceived of as an incipient transnational public sphere’ (Liebert 2007: 268). This makes the EP an apt institutional setting for analyzing both women´s descriptive representation within it, as well as analyzing the debates about women´s representation, in politics and business, which are taking place within the EP. We thus conduct a two-pronged analysis of the who of public sphere participation (Ferree et al. 2002) by looking both at the gender composition of the EP and the framing of debates about women´s representation within the EP and its Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) during the period 2000-2011.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere
Editors	Birte Siim, Monika Mokre
Place of Publication	Basingstoke
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	11
Pages	201-222
Number of pages	22
Volume	2013
ISBN (Print)	978-0-230-35968-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291295
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2013

Publication series

Name	Gender and Politics
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

European Parliament
Quotas
Representation
Participation
FEMM Committee
European enlargement
Transnational

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Women, Participation and the European Parliament. / Pristed Nielsen, Helene; Agustin, Lise Rolandsen.
Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere. ed. / Birte Siim; Monika Mokre. Vol. 2013 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. p. 201-222 (Gender and Politics).

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