Gender Equality in European Union Development Policy in Times of Crisis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7973102
AutoresGill Allwood (0000-0003-2564-7145, Nottingham Trent University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume18
Fascículo3
Páginas329-345
Data de publicação2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitical Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1478-9299 • E-ISSN: 1478-9302
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1478929919863224
OpenAlexW2958447038
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas30

Gender equality is firmly established on the European Union development policy agenda. However, a series of interrelated crises, including migration, security and climate change, are becoming more prominent in European Union development policy. This article asks whether development objectives have been subsumed under these crisis-driven European Union priorities, whether this is compatible with efforts to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment through development cooperation and whether it will affect the ability to keep gender equality high on the European Union’s development policy agenda. The theoretical framework draws on horizontal policy coordination and nexuses. The analysis of European Union development policy documents shows how migration, security and climate change are constructed as crises, how they intersect in various nexuses and how gender intersects with each of these nexuses. This research finds that gender equality is absent from the migration–security–climate nexuses, which are increasingly driving development policy priorities. The article argues that it is quite straightforward to keep gender equality on the development policy agenda, but it is difficult to retain a focus on gender equality when multiple policy areas intersect. The research suggests that the discourse of crisis has blocked the way, and this will have an impact on the European Union’s internal and external activities

Democracy · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Empowerment · European union · Gender and development · Gender equality · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Security policy · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · International Development and Aid · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies