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Lo scorso maggio l'Istituto Ciampi della Scuola normale superiore ha ospitato le autrici e gli autori di una raccolta di saggi che guardano alla Commissione von der Leyen in un’ottica di genere (The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen: Gender, Leadership, Policies, and Crises, Oxford University Press, 2025). Il volume, curato da Gabriele Abels (Università di Tübingen), Johanna Kantola (Università di Helsinki), Emanuela Lombardo (Scuola normale superiore) e Henriette Müller (New York University, Abu Dhabi), offre un'analisi sul ruolo che le questioni di genere hanno avuto per la leadership di Ursula von der Leyen, nella definizione dell'agenda e nella produzione di politiche. Quel che ne esce è un quadro di luci e ombre, nel quale attenzione e innovazioni positive si accompagnano a continuità e passi indietro. Abbiamo incontrato le curatrici assieme ad Anna Elomäki (Università di Tampere) e Jane Freedman (Università Paris 8), i cui lavori compaiono nel libro.Description goes here

Everyone has an opinion about political leadership. Until recently, the voices, experiences, perceptions, and representations of a few men in their roles as leaders, advisors, practitioners, and scholars have dominated the debates about what makes an influential leader or constitutes successful leadership.

Ursula von der Leyen – wie weiblich ist Europa?
Ursula von der Leyen ist es gewohnt, sich gegen Männer durchzusetzen. Nur einmal sind ihr die Gesichtszüge nach einem Affront entglitten. Sabrina Fritz mit einer quasi-feministischen Bilanz der Europapolitik von der Leyens.

Ursula von der Leyen - How feminine is Europe?
Ursula von der Leyen is used to standing up to men. Only once did her features slip after an affront. Sabrina Fritz with a quasi-feminist assessment of von der Leyen's European policy.

WDR 3 Mosaik 16.07.2024 04:07 Min.
Available until 16.07.2025 WDR 3

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Henriette Müller (Assistant Professor of Gender, Governance & Society) has recently interviewed the first female Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Her Excellency Dr. Fatou Bensouda, as part of a new initiative entitled ‘Women in Diplomacy’ introduced by LSE IDEAS, Foreign Policy Think Tank. The initiative’s mission is to address women’s continued underrepresentation in diplomacy and foreign affairs. As part of it, LSE IDEAS has launched a podcast series that brings together researchers, practitioners, and women leaders of diplomacy and international organizations, to explore how policy-making processes can produce more gender-sensitive policy outcomes. The podcast featuring the interview with Dr. Bensouda, as well as other episodes of this series, are available here.

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Here you will find the latest review of my co-edited book Women and Leadership in the European Union (together with Ingeborg Tömmel) by Petra Ahrens in Gender (2023, 2, pp. 148-150).

Here you will find the latest review of my book Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency by Buket Osztas in Perspectives on Politics (2023, 21(1), pp. 409-310).

European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), European Parliament

Speakers: Henriette Müller and Ingeborg Tömmel
Discussant: Michelangelo Vercesi
Moderator: Gabriele Umbach

Credit: EPRS

Romana Abels, Niemand besefte dat Brussel een kanon had binnengehaald [Nobody realized that Brussels had brought in a cannon]

Book Review on “Women and Leadership in the European Union“ (co-edited by Henriette Müller and Ingeborg Tömmel)

Janice Liu, “Preparing Future Leaders,” November 30, 2021 in World and Society, www.nyuad.nyu.edu