GEPPN: Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network

Sophie Jacquot

About

Sophie is Professor of Political Science at UCLouvain, and she holds a Jean Monnet Chair on gender+ equality and the European Union (EUGENDERING, 2022-2025). She is Director of the Institute for European Studies at UCLouvain – Saint-Louis – Bruxelles. Sophie has been teaching for almost 20 years on EU policies and politics, EU institutional dynamics, gender studies, comparative social policies, and policy analysis at bachelor’s, master’s and PhD levels. From a background in sociology of policy analysis, she specialises in EU and gender studies. Her research interests focus on the transformation of EU gender and anti-discrimination policies, onthe Europeanization of social and gender+ equality policies, on the evolution of European social dialogue and on the influence of Eurobarometer surveys in the design of EU policymaking. Her work has appeared in the major journals in her fields of study (among which Journal of Common Market Studies, West European Politics, European Journal of Politics and Gender or Journal of European Public Policy). She has published a monograph of reference on Transformations in EU Gender Equality Policy. From Emergence to Dismantling (Palgrave, 2015), co-edited several books on the notion of Europeanization as well as a Dictionary of Policy Analysis. Sophie is associate editor of the bilingual EU studies journal Politique européenne. She is the co-leader of the research group on gender and politics of the Belgian Political Science Association. From 2020 to 2022, she was the principal investigator of the FNRS-funded EQUALOP project on EU gender equality policy and public opinion. She also co-leads an ongoing interdisciplinary (philosophy, law and political science) project on “Europe’s judiciary narratives”.

Recent Publications

Jacquot, Sophie, « Gender Equality », in Faure, Samuel H., Lequesne, Christian (eds.), The Elgar Companion to the European Union, London, Edward Elgar, 2023, p. 285-297.

Jacquot, Sophie, « EU gender equality policy and the progressive dismantling of feminist governance? », in Banaszak, Lee Ann, Kantola, Johanna, Sawer, Marian, True, Jacqui (eds.), Handbook of Feminist Governance, Edward Elgar, 2023, p. 311-322.

Jacquot, Sophie, « Gender mainstreaming », in Graziano, Paolo R., Tosun, Jale (eds.), Elgar Encyclopaedia of European Union Public Policy, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2022, p. 266-275.

Jacquot, Sophie, « EU neo-corporatism and gender equality policy: disappearing partnership? », in Elomäki, Anna, Kantola, Johanna, Koskinen Sandberg, Paula (eds.), Social Partners and Gender Equality. Change and Continuity in Gendered Corporatism in Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2022, p. 149-170.

Jacquot, Sophie, Ledoux, Clémence (eds.), « Les partenaires sociaux à l’épreuve du genre et de l’intersectionnalité dans l’Union européenne / Social Partners, Gender and Intersectionality in the EU », Politique européenne, n° 74, 2021. <https://doi.org/10.3917/poeu.074.0010 >.

Jacquot, Sophie, « Les partenaires sociaux européens et la politique d’égalité de genre : de la méfiance à l’empêchement », Politique européenne, n° 74, 2021, p. 54-77 < https://doi.org/10.3917/poeu.074.0054>.

Belot, Céline, Jacquot, Sophie, « Eurobarometers surveys: Another history of European gender equality policy? », European Journal of Politics and Gender, vol. 3, n° 3, 2020, p. 331-347 <https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X15835196411219>.

Jacquot, Sophie, « Small decisions? The European Commission and the transformation of the role of legal expert groups: the case of gender equality and non-discrimination », JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 58, n° 3, 2020, p. 545-561

Email: sophie.jacquot@uclouvain.be

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