Power struggles in the implementation of gender equality policies: the politics of resistance and counter-resistance in universities

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• dc.contributor.author Tildesley, Rebecca
• dc.contributor.author Lombardo, Emanuela
• dc.contributor.author Verge Mestre, Tània
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-05-17T05:59:31Z
• dc.date.available 2023-05-17T05:59:31Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract This article develops an analytical framework to study the power struggles between status quo and gender equality actors underpinning the implementation of gender equality policies. While resistance to gender equality policies in different institutions has received considerable scholarly attention, examining this struggle in light of a multifaceted concept of power that encompasses both domination and individual and collective empowerment, we argue, offers a more accurate account of the possibilities of a feminist politics of implementation. Our analytical framework also accounts for the factors that enable resistance by dominant actors and counter-resistance by gender equality actors and the informal rules that are being upheld or challenged, respectively. Applying our framework to the study of Spanish universities, we identify both the forms and types of resistance that hinder gender reform efforts in higher education institutions and the counter-action strategies that seek to drive implementation forward and achieve institutional change.
• dc.description.sponsorship Research for this article was funded by the State Research Agency of the Spanish Ministry of Research through the UNiGUAL Project “Gender Equality Policies in Spanish University” (Ref: Fem2017- 86004-R 10.13039/5011000110033). We also wish to thank the interviews’ informants for sharing their time and knowledge with us, anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments, editors for their guidance, and the UNiGUAL team members, especially Alba Alonso, for commenting on a previous draft of this article. Rebecca Tildesley thanks the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities for funding her PhD scholarship, a predoctoral grant for the training of research personnel from the Promotion of Talent and Employability State Subprogram (Ref: PRE2018-084960).
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• dc.identifier.citation Tildesley R, Lombardo E, Verge T. Power struggles in the implementation of gender equality policies: the politics of resistance and counter-resistance in universities. Polit Gend. 2022;18(4):879-910. DOI: 10.1017/s1743923x21000167
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x21000167
• dc.identifier.issn 1743-923X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56852
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Politics & Gender. 2022;18(4):879-910.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PRE2018-084960
• dc.rights © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution,and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create aderivative work.
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• dc.subject.keyword gender equality policy
• dc.subject.keyword implementation
• dc.subject.keyword power
• dc.subject.keyword resistances
• dc.subject.keyword counter-resistances
• dc.subject.keyword universities
• dc.subject.keyword feminist policy studies
• dc.subject.keyword feminist institutionalism
• dc.title Power struggles in the implementation of gender equality policies: the politics of resistance and counter-resistance in universities
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