GEPPN: Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network

Amy G. Mazur

About

Amy G. Mazur is Professor Emeritus at Washington State University and Associate Researcher at LIEPP, Sciences Po Paris. In March 2025, she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Louvain, Institut de science politique Louvain-Europe (ISPOLE) and Saint-Louis, Brussels. She has been lead editor of the journal French Politics since 2019.  In 2021-22, she conducted mixed method research to produce the guide, Institutional Mechanisms for Gender Equality as Critical Actors: A Review From the OSCE Region (2023), for the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization of Security and Cooperation of Europe. https://www.osce.org/odihr/556587

 Her most recent books include: 

  • Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World: Making Democracy Work in Business edited with Isabelle Engeli (Oxford University Press. 2022) 
  • When Gender Equality Policies in Practice Matter: A Comparative Study of France. Edited with Isabelle Engeli. (Palgrave/ MacMillan. 2024)
  • Gender Equality Behind Bars: A Feminist Comparative Policy Approach. Edited with Ana Ballesteros-Pena and Maria Bustelo.( Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming)
  •  Implementation When Policy Fails: The Uphill Battle for Equal Pay. Edited with Isabelle Engeli (Oxford University Press. Forthcoming). 

 She is co convenor of the following two research groups 

  • Gender Equality Policy in Practice (GEPP) network since 2013 with Isabelle Engeli.
  • Going Global with State Feminism (GGSF) since 2024 with Simone Bohn and Summer Forester.

Publications

Achin, Catherine, Sandrine Leveque, and Amy Mazur. “Twenty Years of Parite Under the Microscope in France: Parties Play with Rather Than by the Rules.” In Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas, edited by Sabine Lang, Petra Meier, and Birgit Sauer, 211–30, 2023.

Engeli, Isabelle, and Amy Mazur, eds. Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World. Oxford,: Oxford University Press, 2022.

———. “Introduction: Negotiating Gender Equality in the Corporate World.” In Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World, edited by Isabelle Engeli and Amy Mazur, 1–16. Oxford University Press, 2022.

———. “Taking Implementation Seriously in Assessing Success: The Politics of Gender Equality Policy.” European Journal of Politics and Gender 1, no. 1–2 (2018): 111–29. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1332/251510818X15282097548558.

———. “The Boardroom as Terrain for Comparative Gender Policy Research.” In Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World, edited by Isabelle Engeli and Amy Mazur, 17–38. Oxford University Press, 2022.

———. “The Transformative Power of Public Policy: Looking Back, Looking Ahead.” In Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World, edited by Isabelle Engeli and Amy Mazur, 362–78. Oxford University Press, 2022.

———. “What Works and Why? The Politics of Corporate Gender Equality by the Numbers.” In Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World, edited by Isabelle Engeli and Amy Mazur, 339–61. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Mazur, Amy. “Special Issue: Does Policy Implementation in Gender Equality Policy Matter in France — a Cross Sectoral Approach.” French Politics 18 (2020): 1–2. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-020-00115-9.

Mazur, Amy, and Isabelle Engeli. “The Search for the Elusive Recipe for Gender Equality: When Policy Implementation Matters.” French Politics 18 (2020): 3–27. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-020-00117-7.

Mazur, Amy, Eleanore Lepinard, Anja Durovic, Catherine Achin, and Leveque Sandrine. “Party Penalties for Parity: Less than Meets the Eye.” French Politics 18 (2020): 28–49. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-020-00111-z.

Email: mazur@wsu.edu