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Fish Fingers and Measles? Assessing Complex Gender Equality in the Scenarios for the Future of Europe

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  • Petra Ahrens
  • Anna van der Vleuten

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In 2017, at a time when the EU was experiencing a triple crisis, the European Commission published a White Paper containing five scenarios outlining potential ways out of it. In his State of the Union address Commission President Juncker added a sixth. Although the Commission refers to fundamental values it neglects gender equality and reduces equality to the harmonization of the quantity of fish in fish fingers and EU‐wide access to vaccination against measles. Despite the neglect of gender equality, the scenarios are not gender neutral. A feminist institutionalist analysis unpacks the potential direct and indirect positive and negative gendered consequences of each scenario and illuminates how the choice of scenario makes a difference as to their gendered impacts and as to the access for feminist actors to bring gender issues to the table.

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  • Petra Ahrens & Anna van der Vleuten, 2020. "Fish Fingers and Measles? Assessing Complex Gender Equality in the Scenarios for the Future of Europe," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(2), pages 292-308, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:58:y:2020:i:2:p:292-308
    DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12922
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    1. Rachel Minto, 2020. "Sticky Networks in Times of Change: The Case of the European Women's Lobby and Brexit," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(6), pages 1587-1604, November.
    2. Toni Haastrup & Heather Macrae & Annick Masselot & Alasdair Young & Milford Soko & Richard G. Whitman, 2022. "Editing ‘Europe’: Reflections from Inside, Outside and Beyond," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(4), pages 853-866, July.

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