Bio
Petra Ahrens is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on gender policies and politics in the European Union and its institutions, gender equality in Germany, gender-sensitive parliaments, and transnational civil society. Alongside articles, she is the author of Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), co-editor, with Lise Rolandsen Agustín, of Gendering the European Parliament. Structures, Policies, and Practices (Rowman & Littlefield / ECPR Press, 2019), and co-editor, with Anna Elomäki and Johanna Kantola, of European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Keywords
gender equality, European Union, gender-sensitive parliaments, transnational civil society