Projects
Can gender autonomy be reconciled with gender equality? Reforming law on sound normative bases Ghent University
While gender equality is still an unachieved reality for many women, much legal attention has recently gone to struggles that transgender and non-binary persons face in present day society. Many among those persons call for a profound reform or even abolishment of gender as a legal category. Focus has therefore been seemingly shifting from gender equality towards gender autonomy. One might expect feminism not to be sceptical of gender ...
Sabbatical Veerle Draulans: Co-creation of a gender mainstreaming policy in academia, with a special focus on gender & STEM KU Leuven
Collaboration with academic partners such as University of Limpopo (SA), African Doctoral Academy, Stellenbosch University (SA), Arba Minch, Bahir Dar & Mekelle University (Ethiopia), University of Rwanda: Rwandan Association for Women in Science & Technology, Rawise the great need for exchange on updated, clear criteria for a sustainable gender mainstreaming policy, in which the scientifically important concept of intersectionality ...
Gender budgeting in the European Structural and Investment Funds: the need change towards gender equality. University of Antwerp
This country report for Germany examines gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting implementation in the European Structural and Investment funds (ESI funds) in the funding period 2014 – 2020. It also provides some general information on gender equality and gender mainstreaming in Germany. The report is part of the project Gender budgeting in the European Structural and Investment Funds EIGE/2017/OPER/03 (ESF and ERDF): the need change towards ...
'Gender as a multi-layered issue in journalism.' A longitudinal, multi-methodical study of gender inequality in the field of journalism in Flanders. Ghent University
In recent years, the numerical inequality between male and female journalists is increasingly eliminated. However, the field of journalism remains divided along gender lines and subtle mechanisms maintain gender inequality. The aim of this research project is to study whether and how two rencent trends in the media sector U+2013 commercialization and digitization U+2013 influence the underlying mechanisms of gender segregation in ...
Homonegativity and Gender Deviance: A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Ideas on Gender and Sexuality in Flanders, The Netherlands, and the United States. University of Antwerp
Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC), Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
This project investigates to what extent and in what manner attitudes toward non-heteronormative sexualities can be explained by attitudes toward gender. The corpus of analyzed texts consists of book and film reviews from the period 1960 until today. For each compared region (Flanders, The Netherlands, the U.S.), two written media (a newspaper and a weekly) will be analyzed.
Celebrating gender and neglecting history: The history of gender representation in Moroccan primary school textbooks for colonial period onwards (1912-2022) KU Leuven
This research focuses on the history of gender representation in Moroccan textbooks and manuals for primary school grades within a broad chronological period (from the colonial era 1912 to date).The present research main objective is to investigate how gender was represented in primary school textbooks at three points in time: the French and Spanish colonial period, the immediate postcolonial era, and the present day, in terms of the visual ...
The activation of political gender stereotypes: an experimental test of the effect of the information environment on the use of political gender stereotypes in Flanders. Ghent University
The position of women in politics has captured the attention of
scholars for decades. Also today, women continue to face difficulties
when penetrating this male-dominated domain. Gender stereotypes
are one of the factors impeding womenU+2019s entrance in politics. By
investigating the conditions under which political gender stereotypes
are activated in votersU+2019 minds, this project moves beyond a ...
Gender Mainstreaming in Tertiary Educational Environments from a Posthumanist Perspective : Making a difference for Trans and Gender Creative Youths through innovative place-based research. KU Leuven
POST-TRANSCREATE PILOT is sponsored by the Global Mind Visiting Scholarship Program of KU Leuven. Beneficiary of the scholarship is Dr. Nico Canoy, The Philippines. It is conducted in the context of the Transdisciplinary Honours Program of the Institute of the Future that accepted our challenge 'inclusive cities and environments' as one of the core topics of the year 2019-2020.
The Anthropocene epoch had radically challenged the ...
The activation of political gender stereotypes: an experimental test of the effect of the information environment on the use of political gender stereotypes in Flanders. Ghent University
The position of women in politics has captured the attention of scholars for decades. Also today, women continue to face difficulties when penetrating this male-dominated domain. Gender stereotypes are one of the factors impeding womenU+2019s entrance in politics. By investigating the conditions under which political gender stereotypes are activated in votersU+2019 minds, this project moves beyond a description of the presence of these ...