The Research Group on Gender Studies uses intersectional, comparative, cross-national, and global perspectives to create bridges and synergies between gender, science, organizations, and policy studies. Professor Zippel’s books and articles examine the mechanisms through which gender equality - a core value of liberal modernity - has been slow, at times stalling, and highly uneven across key institutions such as education, work, science, and politics. Recent research explores gender and global transformations of science and education.
Funded by the Einstein Foundation, this research uncovers points of leverage and/or weakness for specific policies, institutional arrangements, and various negotiations among increasingly transnational actors. Such comparative analyses help to explain why some countries and institutions adopted measures to further the cause of equity, while others have not.
The research streams explore the variability and inconsistency of change across institutions and countries that have witnessed decades of contentious debates about intersectional gender equality and diversity along with a variety of legal reforms, policies, interventions, and social movements aimed at addressing (or resisting) it to varying degrees.