Person:
Lombardo, Emanuela

First Name

Emanuela

Last Name

Lombardo

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/75964

Affiliation

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Faculty / Institute

Ciencias Políticas y Sociología

Department

Ciencia Política y de la Administración

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Ciencia Política y de la Administración

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The Europeanization of gender equality policies: A discursive–sociological approach
(Comparative European Politics, 2015) Lombardo, Emanuela; Forest, Maxime
This article argues that a discursive–sociological approach to study Europeanization is particularly apt for understanding the dynamics of policy change in Europe. It oes so by bringing closer the agenda of discursive institutionalism (DI) and gender policy analysis, drawing upon the recent sociological and discursive turns in the study of the domestic impact of Europe, and the long-term interest of gender policy analysis for discursive framings, norm diffusion, actors’ interactions and EU soft policy instruments. Challenging the limitations of Europeanization studies that only focus on convergence, the article explores the contribution that both Schmidt’s DI and discursive gender approaches make to the understanding of policy change in Europe. While seeing the two approaches as complementary in the study of Europeanization, the article discusses the added value of gender approaches for improving our understanding of policy change in Europe.
Los ‘marcos interpretativos’ de las políticas de igualdad en Europa: conciliación, violencia y desigualdad de género en la política
(Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 2006) Bustelo Ruesta, María Dolores; Lombardo, Emanuela
La existencia de diferentes ‘marcos interpretativos’ (policy frames) en relación con el problema de la desigualdad de género ayuda a explicar las diferencias entre las políticas de igualdad. Esta tesis se basa en la investigación desarrollada por el proyecto europeo MAGEEQ, cuyo marco teórico y metodología se recogen en este artículo. Asimismo, se presentan los resultados del análisis comparativo de los ‘marcos interpretativos’ de las políticas de igualdad en las áreas de conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar, violencia doméstica y desigualdad de género en la política entre la Unión Europea y seis países miembros. Explicitando las interpretaciones del problema de —y de las soluciones a— la desigualdad de género a menudo implícitas en el discurso de los/as actores/as políticos/as, el análisis pretende promover un debate acerca de la formulación de las políticas de igualdad y de las inconsistencias de las mismas.
Towards equal sharing of care? Judicial implementation of EU equal employment and work–life balance policies in Spain
(Policy and Society, 2019) La Barbera, MariaCaterina; Lombardo, Emanuela
Discursive factors have not figured prominently in implementation research. This article fills this gap by addressing the material and discursive conflicts articulated around equality at workplace between women and men in multilevel judicial contexts. It studies obstacles to and opportunities for the judicial implementation of EU equal employment policies in Spain by analyzing two cases of parental rights to childcare litigated before Spanish and supranational courts, namely the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. The claimants are working parents who litigate for the recognition of their right to provide childcare. In judicial implementation multiple meanings about women, gender and intersectionality can be articulated and counteracted at different levels. Frame analysis of selected judicial documents and content analysis of legal proceedings and interviews show that simultaneous favorable institutions, framing, and actors are needed for implementing EU equal employment policies in a way that allows overcoming the gendered division of care and paid work. Distinguishing among ‘women’, ‘gender’ and ‘intersectionality’ approaches, we assess the extent to which the result of judicial implementation is the transformation of gender roles towards equal sharing of care.
Care policies in practice: how discourse matters for policy implementation
(Policy and Society, 2019) Ciccia, Rosella; Lombardo, Emanuela
This article puts public policy research in dialogue with gender and politics studies to enhance our understanding of the implementation of care policies. Care policies present interesting problems of implementation because of the multiplicity of aims, values, inequalities, actors and levels of governance involved. Nonetheless, previous research shows two important gaps: 1) the neglect of discursive factors in studies of implementation; and 2) the lack of attention to implementation processes in the analysis of care policies. This article suggests a general framework to address these issues which considers discourse as a transversal factor connecting actors and institutions engaged in policy implementation. The articles in this special issue demonstrate that including discourses in the analysis of care policy implementation makes visible the influence of gender+ norms and the dynamic and contentious processes surrounding them in a variety of institutional arenas, levels, and national contexts.
The Significance of Symbolic Representation for Gender Issues in Politics
(NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2019) Lombardo, Emanuela; Meier, Petra
This article argues that many empirical studies in the field of gender and politics reduce symbolic representation to an effect of descriptive representation, which limits our understanding of the relevance of symbolic representation. We claim that we should understand symbolic representation as a dimension in itself, not merely as an effect of another dimension of political representation. In this article we develop this argument showing how symbolic representation presents constituents at the symbolic level, thereby generating dynamics of exclusion similar to the other dimensions of political representation. The relation between the different dimensions of symbolic representation is not unilateral in that symbolic representation is an effect of descriptive representation. The different dimensions are rather entangled in that they are mutually constitutive. We show how symbolic representation provides for a symbolic subtext enabling or constraining the political standing and acting for women—or other social groups. In order to develop our argument we return to Hanna Pitkin’s definition of symbolic representation, and then elaborate upon it relying on Michael Saward’s more recent conceptualization of political representation, also considering the constructivist turn in representation studies.
Gender quotas, gender mainstreaming and gender relations in politics
(Political Science, 2013) Meier, Petra; Lombardo, Emanuela
This article seeks to reintroduce discussions on gender relations in politics back into scholarly and political debate. Many countries have adopted gender quotas, but it is unclear whether their implementation has meaningfully changed the prevalent inequalities governing gender relations in politics. This article considers whether the implementation of gender quotas could promote change, and assesses this change with reference to five criteria formerly used to assess the strategy of gender mainstreaming. These are a shift towards a more comprehensive concept of gender equality; the incorporation of a gender perspective intersected with other inequalities in mainstream politics; equal political representation; organizational changes in selection and recruitment mechanisms as well as the functioning of politics; and, finally, the displacement of hierarchies, and the empowerment of subjects. Reflection on and empirical illustrations of gender quotas with regard to these criteria reveal a mixed picture, demonstrating the need to reintroduce discussions about gender equality within politics back into gender quota debates. This discussion will not focus on the legitimacy of or need for gender quotas, but on how their implementation can contribute to the improvement of gender relations in politics beyond a quantitative sense. Approaching gender quotas through the use of criteria devised for assessing the gender mainstreaming strategy is helpful in exploring the potential of gender quotas in the transformation of gender relations.
Feminist political analysis: Exploring strengths, hegemonies and limitations
(Feminist Theory, 2017) Lombardo, Emanuela; Kantola, Johanna
Austerity politics, war in the Middle East and at other borders of the European Union, the rise of nationalisms, the emergence of populist parties and politicians, Islamophobia and the refugee crisis are amongst the recent developments suggesting the need for discussions about the theories and concepts that academic disciplines provide for making sense of societal, cultural and political transformations. In this article, we focus on the capacities of feminist political theories to undertake this task. By assessing different feminist approaches to political analysis that range from focusing on women and men, to analysing gender, to doing intersectionality and to adopting post-structural and new materialist approaches, we explore the contributions and the limitations of each framework. This allows us to consider where feminist theoretical debates on gender and politics currently are, to assess old and new developments and to address lacunae in the debate. Our argument is that dominant approaches in political science influence the emergence and marginalisation of particular feminist frameworks for political analysis, but also that feminist theorising of gender and politics, in striving for recognition within mainstream political science, reproduces its own hegemonies and marginalisations.
Cuotas de género en política y economía: Regulación y configuración institucional en España
(Política y gobierno, 2017) Lombardo, Emanuela; Verge, Tania
Las cuotas de género en la política y en los consejos de administración de las empresas presentan diferencias importantes en España respecto al grado de coerción, el periodo de implementación establecido y las sanciones por incumplimiento, indicando una regulación “fuerte” para las primeras y “débil” para las segundas. Para explicar por qué se introdujeron enfoques regulativos diferentes, adoptamos un enfoque feminista institucionalista que nos permite analizar la distinta configuración institucional subyacente a los sucesivos procesos de reforma de estas cuotas, así como las estrategias discursivas de los actores clave que apoyaron o se opusieron a su adopción. Mientras que las cuotas en la política siguieron una secuencia armónica, en las empresas la secuencia fue claramente conflictiva.
"Mainstreaming" de género y análisis de los diferentes "marcos interpretativos" de las políticas de igualdad en Europa: el proyecto MAGEEQ
(Aequalitas: Revista jurídica de igualdad de oportunidades entre mujeres y hombres, 2005) Bustelo Ruesta, María Dolores; Lombardo, Emanuela
European Integration and Disintegration: Feminist Perspectives on Inequalities and Social Justice
(Journal of Common Market Studies, 2019) Lombardo, Emanuela; Kantola, Johanna