Gender equality and innovation – towards sustainable development and social innovation using the example of activities undertaken by the European Union

• Authors: Kwieciński Leszek

Title variants

PL

Równość płci a innowacyjność – w kierunku zrównoważonego rozwoju i innowacji społecznych na przykładzie działań podejmowanych przez Unię Europejską

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main aim of the article is to analyse the importance of gender equality in the context of implementing social innovations and the principles of sustainable development. These processes will be shown in the context of activities undertaken at the European level and by European institutions. The main research problem of the article is to present arguments relating to the growing importance of the concept of sustainable development and social innovation, for which social order and gender equality are of key importance. Such identification of the concept of sustainable socio-economic development with social order and gender equality in the creation of contemporary innovations can be analysed in a scientific perspective with the functional theory of social change by A.R. Redcliffe-Brown and B. Malinowski. On the other hand, in practical terms it is entwined with all types of activities, strategies or programmes undertaken and implemented in the pragmatics of European Union activities (eg. Commission Work Programme 2020 “A Union that strives for more”, the Ljubljana Declaration, the Horizon Europe Programme, including "Women TechEU"). The author uses both traditional research methods as a middle-order system analysis and institutional-legal method, as well as new methods, including sociological neoinstitutionalism and network analysis. The research techniques used in the analysis are mainly quantitative techniques, i.e. desk research or analysis of existing data from databases “She Figures”, GEM, Statista.com.

PL

Głównym celem artykułu jest analiza znaczenia równości płci w kontekście wdrażania innowacji społecznych i zasad zrównoważonego rozwoju. Owe procesy zostaną ukazane w kontekście działań podejmowanych na poziomie europejskim oraz przez instytucje europejskie. Głównym problemem badawczym artykułu jest przedstawienie argumentów odnoszących się do wzrastającego znaczenia koncepcji zrównoważonego rozwoju i innowacji społecznych, dla których to ład społeczny i równość płci mają kluczowe znaczenie. Takie utożsamienie koncepcji zrównoważonego rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczego z ładem społecznym i równością płci w kreowaniu współczesnych innowacji można zbadać w ujęciu naukowym na podstawie funkcjonalnej teorii zmiany społecznej A.R. Redcliffe-Browna i B. Malinowskiego. Natomiast w ujęciu praktycznym – z wszelkiego typu działaniami, strategiami czy programami podejmowanymi i realizowanymi w pragmatyce działań Unii Europejskiej (np. Program roboczy KE „Unia, która mierzy wyżej”, Deklaracja z Lublany, Program „Horyzont Europa”, w tym „Women TechEU”). W odniesieniu do metod badawczych, w artykule wykorzystano tradycyjne metody badawcze (jak analiza systemowa średniego rzędu oraz metoda instytucjonalno-prawna), a także nowe metody, w tym neoinstytucjonalizm socjologiczny oraz analiza sieci. Technikami badawczymi, jakimi posłużono się w analizie, są głównie techniki ilościowe, tj. analiza typu desk research czy analiza danych zastanych, zawartych w bazach „She Figures”, GEM, Statista.com.

Keywords

EN

sustainable development; social innovation; European Union; EU; gender gap; gender equality

PL

zrównoważony rozwój; innowacje społeczne; Unia Europejska; UE; różnice między płciami; równość płci

• Publisher: Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 4(66)
• Pages: 11-28

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Kwieciński Leszek

• University of Wroclaw

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