Petra AhrensPetra Ahrens is Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on gender politics in the European Union, and social politics in Germany. She also provides expertise as a policy consultant on gener equality policy for German public administration. She is the author of Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programmes. (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming October 2017). She has published book chapters as well as articles and she is co-editor of the German journal "Femina Politica". Read More Read Less