LIST OF PANELS

The Covid-19 crisis has contributed to widening gender gaps multidimensionally. In parallel, policies in the immediate response to the health crisis as well as for the recovery can contribute to mitigating or, conversely, further worsening the toll of the pandemic for women. Countries deployed highly heterogeneous response models differing in their gendered implications. A key example early in the crisis concerns the degree of reliance on policies such as school closures – far from solely varying across the severity of outbreaks.

In this context, the gendered impact of the pandemic has received extensive attention and longstanding barriers to equality such as access to childcare have gained renewed centrality within the debate. At the same time, the heterogeneous gendered implications of policy responses play a fundamental role in shaping the implications of the pandemic for equality. A case of particular interest is the European Union where the common recovery effort under Next Generation EU – mobilizing substantial resources to fuel the post-pandemic reconstruction – is central for reforms and investments in the aftermath of the pandemic, raising the question of its potentially heterogeneous success in gender mainstreaming. From such a perspective, the pandemic crisis challenges progress towards gender equality while at the same time offering extensive opportunities for advocacy, investments and reforms toward gender mainstreaming in the recovery.

The panel aims to address multidimensionally the questions of gender policies and politics in the response to the pandemic and recovery, welcoming papers on the gendered implications of national or supranational pandemic responses and recovery measures, both at the single country and comparative level.

The scope of the panel includes all phases of policy-making in the aftermath of Covid-19, such as:

·      gendering policy debates within the pandemic and recovery agenda

·      assessing success and failure in gender mainstreaming response and recovery policy output

·      direct outcomes of gender equality policies and indirect gendered implications of response and recovery policies.

Themes of interest span factors that facilitate or hinder the promotion of gender equality structurally or within the policy-making process; key actors in gendering response and recovery policies and their strategies.

This panel only accepts online presentations.

The Covid-19 crisis has contributed to widening gender gaps multidimensionally. In parallel, policies in the immediate response to the health crisis as well as for the recovery can contribute to mitigating or, conversely, further worsening the toll of the pandemic for women. Countries deployed highly heterogeneous response models differing in their gendered implications. A key example early in the crisis concerns the degree of reliance on policies such as school closures – far from solely varying across the severity of outbreaks.

In this context, the gendered impact of the pandemic has received extensive attention and longstanding barriers to equality such as access to childcare have gained renewed centrality within the debate. At the same time, the heterogeneous gendered implications of policy responses play a fundamental role in shaping the implications of the pandemic for equality. A case of particular interest is the European Union where the common recovery effort under Next Generation EU – mobilizing substantial resources to fuel the post-pandemic reconstruction – is central for reforms and investments in the aftermath of the pandemic, raising the question of its potentially heterogeneous success in gender mainstreaming. From such a perspective, the pandemic crisis challenges progress towards gender equality while at the same time offering extensive opportunities for advocacy, investments and reforms toward gender mainstreaming in the recovery.

The panel aims to address multidimensionally the questions of gender policies and politics in the response to the pandemic and recovery, welcoming papers on the gendered implications of national or supranational pandemic responses and recovery measures, both at the single country and comparative level.

The scope of the panel includes all phases of policy-making in the aftermath of Covid-19, such as:

·      gendering policy debates within the pandemic and recovery agenda

·      assessing success and failure in gender mainstreaming response and recovery policy output

·      direct outcomes of gender equality policies and indirect gendered implications of response and recovery policies.

Themes of interest span factors that facilitate or hinder the promotion of gender equality structurally or within the policy-making process; key actors in gendering response and recovery policies and their strategies.