Mergaert, LutLombardo, Emanuela2023-06-192023-06-1920141027-5193https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33998In this article, we analyze the implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Union (EU) through the study of ‘resistance’ to gender equality initiatives in EU research policy. Contributing to feminist institutionalist theories, we identify resistance to gender initiatives within the Directorate General Research and Innovation, showing that there have been obstacles to an effective implementation of gender mainstreaming in the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme (FP6). We argue that the encountered resistances reveal tensions between the European Commission’s official mandate of mainstreaming gender equality into all policies and its actual implementation, which results in the ‘filtering out’ of transformative gender equality goalsspajournal articlehttp://http://eiop.or.at/eiop/pdf/2014-005.pdfopen accessEuropean CommissionGender policy. ImplementationNeo-institutionalismPolitical scienceGobiernosParlamentosPartidos y grupos políticosSistemas políticosInstituciones comunitarias (Unión Europea)Política común de investigación y desarrollo5904.03 Poder Legislativo5905.06 Partidos Políticos5907 Sistemas Políticos5901.02 Organizaciones Internacionales5902.14 Política Científica y Tecnológica