While ‘gender order’, ‘gender regime’ or ‘patriarchy’ have been developed in order to characterized the development and reproduction of systems at large, our present research project, “The Danish Political Gender Equality Regime – continuity and change” has the ambition to develop a regime concept, which is more focused, yet broader than just certain policy dimension, and which can be applied in comparative research over time or between countries or regions. From a historical new-institutionalist approach, we will study the historical development of gender equality policy and of women’s political representation, seen in relation to the Danish political model of interaction between the welfare state, the collective bargaining system and civil society movements. Path dependency is a key concept in analyzing this construction of what we label the ambivalent political gender regime in Denmark.
