In the context of its upcoming General Assembly, the European Values Study organizes the seminar “Gender equality: a European value. Emerging issues and methodological challenges” aiming at discussing emerging issues both from a substantive and methodological perspectives. The seminar will take place on March 7th 2024, at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia. It is possible to submit proposals for contribution to the debate by following the instructions provided in the Call for Abstracts:
Gender Equality is a human right and a global goal, as affirmed in the UN Agenda 2030 (SDG 5). In Europe, the equality between men and women has been included in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and formally recognized among the values of the Union since 2019, with the Treaty of Lisbon.
The process of institutionalization of the gender equality principle, whose starting point can be dated back to 1957 with the Treaty of Rome, continues nowadays in the context of the unified Gender Mainstreaming strategy, a guiding framework for European legislation and policies.
Today, several measurements based on structural elements are available to monitor gender equality. However, cultural dimensions like values, beliefs and norms play a crucial role in shaping gender role expectation and guiding behaviors and choices. In this direction, values surveys (European Values Study/World Values Survey) can offer a great contribution by providing measurements of gender role attitudes, beliefs concerning the principle of gender equality, and moral norms. It can help understand cultural changes in connection with current social, economic and political challenges at the national and European levels, including for example value polarization, rise of political extremism, anti-gender backlash, anti-European sentiments, but also the relationships of gender equality value with religiosity, environmentalism, and European integration.
To promote an interdisciplinary discussion addressing these issues, the European Values Study organizes a seminar on March 7th, 2024, at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. following a call for abstracts, nine contributions were selected and will be discussed in Skopje.
Program:
Scientific organizing committee:
Beatrice Chromková Manea (Masaryk University, CZ); Vera Lomazzi (University of Bergamo, IT); Quita Muis (Tilburg University, NL); Claudiu Tufis (University of Bucharest, RO)
Secretariat support: Francesca Bellini (University of Bergamo, IT)