Economic crisis and the politics of austerity

The last decade of gender and EU politics has been strongly marked by the economic crisis that began in 2008 and the austerity politics that followed. The national economies of European countries such as Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy were brought down and others were significantly affected. The Euro faced an existential crisis with the crisis in Greece spiralling. No sphere of society – including gender relations and politics – was completely out of the reach of the economic crisis.