Inhalt: Over the past 20 years, the European Union has developed a comprehensive policy on gender equality (GE) in the fields of research, innovation and higher education. While North European countries have actively implemented policies in this direction, South and East European countries have been far less active and made limited progress, resulting in widening policy gaps across countries. Drawing from the experience of a capacity-building project (TARGET), this chapter explores the factors that impede the implementation of gender equality plans (GEPs) in research and higher education institutions across five countries – Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Italy and Serbia. It argues that the lack of a coherent GE discourse in research and innovation policies that sheds light on structural barriers and implicit bias is a central impediment: it severely limits the potential of GEPs and the power of change agents in research and higher education organisations in Southeast Europe to stimulate institutional change.
Schlagwörter:Central Eastern Europe; European Union; gender equality plan; gender equality policy; Gleichstellungsplan; Gleichstellungspolitik; institutional transformation; institutioneller Wandel; policy discourse; Southeast Europe
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
