Empirical Study of Gender Research Network
Evidence on gender and power that moves scholarship and shapes policy.
EGEN is a network of scholars advancing rigorous research on gender, politics, and power. We convene workshops across three continents, fund junior scholars, and work to build women’s standing in the discipline.
- $200k+
- raised to convene workshops on new research
- $60k+
- awarded in prizes to junior scholars
- 19
- convenings across three continents since 2016
- 700+
- scholars on our mailing list
What we study
Questions that matter for policy, answered with rigorous evidence
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Do women change what governments spend on?
Members study electoral gender quotas and budget priorities across more than a hundred countries, and women’s representation in cabinets and legislatures from Latin America to sub-Saharan Africa.
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What happens to women after war?
Work on peacekeeping and security-sector reform, wartime sexual violence and domestic accountability, and women’s participation in armed conflict.
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Why don’t women turn out — and what changes it?
Field experiments on women voters’ turnout in Pakistan, women’s groups and political participation in rural India, and the property rights that underpin both.
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Who runs for office, and who wins?
Research on candidate emergence, breadwinning and motherhood, suffrage reform, and bias against women in local and national elections in the United States and abroad.
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How is climate change reshaping gender politics?
New work on gender gaps in climate attitudes worldwide, and on women’s influence in local natural-resource governance.
Who we are
A network across leading institutions
Our directors and members teach and conduct research at leading universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond, and hold editorships at the discipline’s top journals and flagship book series. They also advise UN Women, USAID, and the World Bank, and partner with organizations working to advance women’s political leadership worldwide.
What’s next
Our 10-year convening
EGEN marks ten years in Spring 2027 with a convening at Johns Hopkins University — a decade of workshops, prizes, and research on gender, politics, and power.
Support this work
Help fund the next round of prizes
Our research prizes support junior scholars doing fieldwork, surveys, and archival research on gender and politics. If you or your institution would be interested in supporting the next round, we would be glad to hear from you.
Get involved
Join EGEN
Our mailing list contains calls for the research prize, workshop announcements, and opportunities across the gender and politics community.