Work package 6
Crises processes and narratives appear as a new feature and challenge in the present and future of global society. We now live in a state of ‘perpetual crisis’ as the combined effect of past, present, and ongoing crises. Crisis management and solutions are gendered and have a great impact on women’s equality and empowerment, affecting society as a whole.
Work package 6 will explore and assess challenges and opportunities for women’s empowerment in situations of crisis from a comparative perspective. The goal is to identify the lessons learned, the challenges to women’s equality created by crises processes, and the opportunities for transformation of hegemonic power structures and discourse.
This work package will assess different types of crises in the domain of finance, health, and climate through the lens of the representation of women in three dimensions at the EU and the national level: crisis management and leadership, policy responses, and discourse. Moreover, it will assess the impacts of crises on the future of work, especially the digitalization of work, in relation to the empowerment of women and girls. There are five deliverables within work package 6: