Jessica Fortin-Rittberger

My first dissertation paper is out in Sexuality Research and Social Policy — open access! 🎉 It's about trans inclusion in sports and what fairness concerns actually do to public support.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Short thread below 👇

27: Mandat, Mutter, Kind - Eltern im Parlament Mit einem Mandat ist es gewissermaßen wie mit einer Schwangerschaft – man weiß vorher nicht wirklich worauf man sich einlässt. Umso schwieriger ist es, wenn beides zusammen gestemmt wird, denn Abgeord...

Wie gehen eigentlich Kind und Politische Karriere zusammen? im Zwischenruf Podcast des IParl Diskutiere ich mit Nadine Heselhaus (MdB) über Herausforderungen und Reformideen. Hier:
Mandat, Mutter, Kind - Eltern im Parlament zwischenruf.podigee.io/30-eltern-im-p…
@iparl.bsky.social @spdfraktion.de

finally posting about this here as well: I have successfully defended my dissertation this Monday 🤓

with a stellar committee @lucykinski.bsky.social & @rheinisch.bsky.social and my lovely supervisors by my side @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social & @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social 🤍

onwards and upwards now!

BSA 42 | Gender Identity | National Centre for Social Research This research investigates the complexities of gender identity and its impact on social attitudes and policy preferences in the UK.

Os comparto esta pieza que junto con mis compañeras @hildecoffe.bsky.social @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social #amyalexander & #SusanBanducci hemos publicado.
natcen.ac.uk/publications...

Brilliant! We need them everywhere!

9 candidates for Landratswahl in Landkreis Traunstein in Bavaria — 8 men, and the poster walls make it look like even fewer: the usual Christian, Andreas and Sepp (Heinz and Hans not pictured😆)

Same faces, same vibes.

#Traunstein #Landratswahl2025 #Kommunalpolitik #Posterboys #Männerquote

Today at 16:00, I’ll be joining a great online discussion (with @sarahdingler.bsky.social ) on women in EU institutions—covering representation, careers, and change.

Bonus: it’s virtual and the dress code is lounge (cocktails optional)

📧 Register at eif@univie.ac.at

#EUPolitics #WomenInPolitics

@ipp-csic.bsky.social Comparto este reportaje sobre los primeros resultados del modulo de la @ess-survey.bsky.social ‬que hemos diseñado con @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social @hildecoffe.bsky.social, Susan Banducci and Amy Alexander
www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2025-...

Austria 🇦🇹 is often in the lower quintile when it comes to support for gender equality measures. Only 26% agree that parental support should be equal between men and women. 😐

#GenderEquality
ps. #Germany not much higher.

Looking at attitudes about gender equality in Austria ahead of the ESS Topline presentation orf.at/stories/3394...

Disentangling different types of sexist attitudes and vote choice in Germany With a woman as head of German government for 16 years, many hoped (or feared) for significant progress in the areas of gender equality. Rather than progress, however, contributors have noticed a r...

Sexism isn't just driving support for the radical right — it shaped vote choice across the board in #btw21 🗳🇩🇪

Our new research shows how different forms of sexism influenced sympathy for chancellor candidates and party choice.

(Spoiler: not just the AfD!)
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

That’s a wrap on Joint Sessions 2025 ✨

thanks to Nadine and Maike for having Lara and myself in their workshop on political culture, where I could present our joint work on drivers of hostile sexism in Europe 👀🏡💶

@ecpr.bsky.social

Had an amazing time presenting my work at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2025 in Prague as part of the workshop on Political Culture!

Thank you for the opportunity and an amazing organization by @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and Maike Rump!

@ecpr.bsky.social @ecprpolculture.bsky.social

🧨Interested in the complex struggle for gender equality in EU politics? See our recent article on EUROPP @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social
@politicsgenderj.bsky.social #Eu #EUropeanCareers @ecprsgeu.bsky.social
@eup_journal

t.co/aQcNSRaJxn

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Thanks for the kind words, it was a pleasure working with you! We needed patience to redraft a few times as the political situation changed.

I wish you many more publications 😸

The complex struggle for gender equality in EU politics EU gender equality commitments must be translated into sustained action, or future political changes could reverse the progress made so far.

💥 New: The complex struggle for gender equality in EU politics

✍️ @frechelena.bsky.social & @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social present insights from their new special issue @eupthejournal.bsky.social

A set of six bar charts comparing the number of countries experiencing democratic and autocratic changes between 2004 and 2024. The charts use blue bars for 2004 and red/pink bars for 2024. Number of countries democratizing: 2004: 26 countries 2024: 19 countries (decrease) Number of countries autocratizing: 2004: 12 countries 2024: 45 countries (increase) Freedom of expression deteriorating: 2004: 7 countries 2024: 44 countries (increase) Freedom of expression improving: 2004: 29 countries 2024: 8 countries (decrease) Quality of elections deteriorating: 2004: 10 countries 2024: 25 countries (increase) Quality of elections improving: 2004: 30 countries 2024: 10 countries (decrease) The data suggests a significant decline in democracy-related indicators over the two decades, with more countries experiencing autocratization and fewer seeing improvements in democratic freedoms and election quality.

The new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social report is out... and there is little good news in there for Democracy in 2024. Number of countries autocratizing is increasing. Freedom of expression is deteriorating. I fear the next report is going to be even bleaker. Full report here:
v-dem.net/documents/54...

Great open access resource on the 2024 EP elections in French and English!

Get the big picture on Germany’s EP election—read our breakdown here with @stefanhee.bsky.social

shs.cairn.info/journal-poli...

#EPElections2024

a little girl is laughing with her fist in the air while wearing a vest and tie . ALT: a little girl is laughing with her fist in the air while wearing a vest and tie .

This week, my seminar on "Women & Politics: Actors, Discourses, Practices" starts. We look at actors such as female MPs and feminist movements, debates on abortion or focus on gendered interactions in parliament and on social media. Looking forward to interesting sessions 1/
#academicsky #gendersky

Europa wird zur Zielscheibe Donald Trumps – dafür gibt es einen Grund Die EU ist für den US-Präsidenten der Inbegriff eines Feindbilds. Er wird versuchen, die Union zu spalten, indem er mit Einzelstaaten Deals abschließt. Die Techno-Rechte hilft allzu gerne mit

A commentary by me in today's Der Standard on Trump's approach to Europe, and why the EU is likely to be seen by the American radical right as the ultimate deep state.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Women's representation has been stagnating around 30% for the past 30 years, after peaking at an all-time high of 36.4% in 2013—only to decline since.

32.4% after the 2025 Bundestag election. This is not progress.

#GenderEquality #Politics #Bundestagswahl #Bundestagswahl2025

Highest turnout since 1990 in German federal elections

#Bundestagswahl2025  #btw25

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

Reminder: deadline for this 5-year position in IR in one week 👇

Sahra knows something the others seem to ignore. Immigration is owned by AfD. You use it, you lose.

A start to 2025 for us with the publication in European Union Politics of ‘Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European Commission’, co-authored article with Pierre Alayrac, Sara Connolly, and Miriam Hartlapp, doi.org/10.1177/1465...

Farewell from Jeremy: enfin! Published in Journal of European Public Policy (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Farewell to Jeremy Richardson who retires tomorrow as Editor of @jeppjournal.bsky.social after 31 volumes, 251 issues and 2,231 articles. A good innings! As both an author and reviewer I've always enjoyed and valued Jeremy's wisdom. He'll be much missed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

„Nicht für den menschlichen Verzehr geeignet“: Warnung vor Dubai-Schokolade Dubai Schokolade ist gerade in aller Munde. Aber gehört sie da wirklich rein? Eine Behörde warnt nun vor dem Trend. Erste Untersuchungen waren bedenklich.

👀 feeling less and less like trying this www.wa.de/verbraucher/...