Public Lecture – Big Ideas for Democracy: Petra Ahrens

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The international norm of Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: Navigating Inequality and Inclusion in Democracies under Pressure

Bio

Petra Ahrens is 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). 

This event will also feature a roundtable discussion with politicians:

• Kathleen Depoorter (N-VA)
• Hannelore Goeman (Vooruit)
• Nadia Naji (Groen)
• Vincent Van Peteghem (cd&v)
• Eva De Bleeker (Anders.)
• Line De Witte (PVDA)