While EU crisis responses are often gender blind, European Parliament gender equality actors have managed to develop gendered EU Covid recovery policies. Still, argue Anna Elomäki and Johanna Kantola, equality is only welcome when it does not challenge dominant economic priorities
Her research focuses on the interconnections between the economy, politics and gender in Finland and at EU level, for example gender impacts of economic policies, gendered and de-democratising economic governance practices, neoliberalisation of gender equality policy, as well as gender mainstreaming and gender budgeting.
She has published widely in key international journals in the fields of political science, gender studies and social policy, including the Journal of Common Market Studies, International Political Science Review, Social Politics, Gender, Work and Organization, and Critical Social Policy.
