According to the Strategy for Gender Equality 2020-2025,gender mainstreaming should be the watchword. Environmental sustainability andgender equality represent essential objectives to achieve the major task ofshifting the global economy to more sustainable models. With the ecologicaltransition ongoing, a claim arose for a transition that could be “just”, bypreventing possible negative effects of this transformation from impacting onvulnerable groups of society, including women. However, the measures adopted tomitigate social consequences of the ecological transition are likely toexacerbate gender discriminations and inequalities among workers, if they arenot linked to comprehensive strategies aimed at reducing structuralinequalities, addressing the problem of unequal distribution of informal carework, reducing segregation and pushing employment in women dominated sectors.Although a common thought is that there can never be climate justice as long asthere is no equality between men and women, there is need for more, in-depthresearch exploring the interconnection between these different dimensions,especially in a comparative law perspective. The present research topic isrelated to addressing the lack of a clear framing of the problem in the scientificarena: in fact, since interpretations of green transition processes are mostlybased on traditional notions of progress, development, work, and gender, theymay be less effective in promoting social transformation.

The candidate will need acomprehensive set of skills: particularly, she/he will have to possess theability to analyse the current, state-of-the-art debate regarding genderequality, by examining the most up-to-date available scientific literature.Most of all, the candidate will have to be able to incorporate the gender issuewithin themes pertaining to the green transition and climate change; this willbe accomplished through the ability, possessed by the candidate, to conducthuman and social studies, alongside environment-related studies. Finally,she/he will need to be skilled in combining these different research approachesand blend them with a comparative law perspective.

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The research team is composed of sixPhD candidates and three post-doc fellows, all supervised by the Referenceperson. Several of the candidates and fellows have been enaged in genderequality research for a long time. Therefore, the new PhD candidate will have achance to pursue research, surrounded by colleagues who will be sharing theirskills and experience, enabling the candidate to effectively achieve her/hisgoals.  

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