Work package 2
Work package 2 will assess the effectiveness of law and policies regarding the representation of women in key areas of decision-making by using a country-level systematic review of laws, rules, and policies. More generally, this work package focuses on the institutional dimension of ensuring a transformative equality approach and overcoming the gendered nature of the law- and policymaking processes. Utilising the Gender Equality Continuum Tool (GECT), the national gender equality approaches to law- and policymaking processes will be analysed in the six represented countries within this project: Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
The goal is to identify key legislation and policies regarding the representation of women in decision-making positions and gender-based violence within the consortium countries. Furthermore, this work package offers a comparative analysis of these legal and policy frameworks and whether these align with the EU and international norms. Lastly, it analyses the gendered nature and gender-blindness of law and policymaking processes in these fields and identifies both organisational constraints and incentives to give women a voice and agency as, well as possible key indicators of gender transformative approaches and good practices. There are six deliverables within work package 2: