ABSTRACT
This article is in two parts. The first is a brief reflection on the emergence of the study of gender and politics over the past 30 years and its influence on European political science. The second is a discussion of the early results of a recently completed comparative project, the RNGS project (Research Network on Gender and the State) on the influence of women’s movements on public policy decisions. The two parts of the paper are not as disconnected as at first they may seem. The RNGS project reflects both developments in the sub-field of gender and politics and the influences of changes in approaches to the study of politics of the last 30 years or so.
