Drawing on the richness of thirteen European case studies of gender quotas policy adoption in three domains of gender equality (politics, public administration and corporate boards) realized in the context of a comparative project, we delineate in this presentation patterns of both resistance and adoption among countries as the domain of quotas spread, bringing new insights on the transformative potential of gender quotas in different contexts. The variations across European countries in timing and sequencing of gender quota adoption, as well as in the preferred domains of quota implementation, suggest that what we termed the gender quota revolution unfolds in different scenarios. We claim that these scenarios, determined by the way quota reform is discussed, contested, adopted, or rejected in the three domains where quotas have so far been mostly applied, reveal the extent to which gender quotas might successfully challenge a country’s prevalent gender regime. We propose an inductive typology, based on four groups of countries, each group following a different historical trajectory when it comes to adopting—or rejecting—gender quotas in the three domains. The four scenarios, characterized by different degrees of transformative potential. These are : gender quotas as accessory measures (nordic countries), gender quotas as transformative equality remedies (France, Belgium, Slovenia, Spain), gender quotas as symbolic remedies (Greece, Portugal and Poland) and gender quotas are corrective equality remedies (Germany, Austria). This presentation explores what we can learn from this typology, from outliers and from transition of some countries from category or scenario to another one
