Gendering the European Parliament: Structures, Policies, and Practices

Petra Ahrens is Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on gender politics in the European Union, and social politics in Germany. She also provides expertise as a policy consultant on gender equality policy for German public administration. She is the author of Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programmes. (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming October 2017). She has published book chapters as well as articles and she is co-editor of the German journal "Femina Politica".

Lise Rolandsen Agustín is Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on social movements, intersectionality and gender-based violence. She is a member of FREIA (Feminist Research Center in Aalborg) and EDGE (Center for Equality, Diversity and Gender) and participates in bEUcitizen: All Rights Reserved? Constraints and Contradictions of European Citizenship, EC FP7 (2013-2017) and in Gender Regimes in Politics (GRIP), Velux (2014-2017). She is the author of Gender Equality, Intersectionality and Diversity in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and she has published chapters in various books as well as articles in journals such as Politics, European Journal of Women's Studies, and Social Politics.