Petra Meier is Professor in Political Science at the University of Antwerp, co-chair of A*, the Antwerp Gender&Sexuality Studies Network, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on how inequality gets (re)produced, and on what contributes to fostering equality in a sustainable way. She looks into the (re)presentation of gender (dynamics and relations) in politics and policies; studies dimensions of democracy and innovative conceptualizations of representation; electoral systems, their degree of inclusiveness, design and gender quotas; the inclusiveness of public policies, their framing, discursive constructions and design; the gendering of public policies, especially through gender impact assessment and discursive practices; and issues of inequality in multi-level systems as well as dynamics of exclusion in political spaces and how this shapes power relations. For publications please see https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/petra-meier/publications/
