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Baroni, Alice 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2311-3457 and Padovani, Claudia
(2025)
AI, democracy and gender equality: EU regulatory frameworks and the wager of gender mainstreaming.
European Journal of Communication, 40 (4).
pp. 411-432.
ISSN 0267-3231
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Abstract
This article contends that gender mainstreaming in today's world constitutes a wager for all societies at the crossroads of democracy, technology and justice where multiple crises are experienced. At the same time, gender mainstreaming can be seen as the cornerstone of a possible cultural and political shift, to strengthen and revive democracy, in vision and in practice; it can be mobilised as a democratic innovation. Different actors, institutional and from civil society, have recently called for renewed efforts in mainstreaming gender in digital developments and governance. The paper assumes those calls as a basis from which to critically interrogate European regulation of AI through the dual lens of gender equality and mainstreaming. Could gender mainstreaming constitute a transformative principle in EU normative interventions for the digital age? And what research agenda may contribute to guiding the transformation towards renewed democratic visions and practices?
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | democracy,eu regulatory frameworks,european ai act,gender equality,gender mainstreaming,communication,language and linguistics,sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3315 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Gender and Its Intersections Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2025 12:30 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2026 20:40 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99782 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/02673231251349323 |
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