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NTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - PROGRESSING GENDER RELATIONS IN EUROPE, QUESTIONS
OF EQUALITY IN PAID AND UNPAID WORK, 6-7 SEPTEMBER 2001, UNIVERSITY OF
SALFORD, MANCHESTER, UK
This conference jointly organised by the European Studies Research
Institute (University of Salford) and the Centre for Gender Studies in
Europe (University of Sheffield) aims to bring together researchers and
policy makers from across Europe to discuss the relationship between gender
equality in paid and in unpaid work. There will be presentations of
women's position vis-à-vis paid and unpaid work in specific European
nations, and papers highlighting the gendered division of work and
employment across the EU. Alongside these will be sessions addressing
Europe-wide issues of policy, both evaluating national and European policy
to date and discussing possible future avenues regarding women's paid and
unpaid work.
Organisers: Abigail Gregory (University of Salford) and Jan Windebank
(University of Sheffield).
For further information and a registration form, please contact:
Wendy Dodgson, European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford,
Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 161 295 4862. Email: [log in to unmask]
Closing date for regisatration: 24 August 2001.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Day One Thursday 6 September: Women's Paid and Unpaid Work Situations
Session 1: Setting the context - realities and debates
Speakers: Colette Fagan, Maria-Angeles Duran, Diane Perrons
Session 2: Women's paid and unpaid work situations, comparisons and
contrasts in Europe
Speakers: Marie-Thérèse Letablier and Jeanne Fagnani, Ute Gerhard, Trudie
Knijn, Arnaug Leira, Constanza Tobio, Rossana Trifiletti, Ulla Björnberg,
Joe Cook.
Chairs: Jean Gardiner, Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes
Panel Session: Signs of Change in Gender Relations in Paid and Unpaid Work
- an Overview
Speakers: Jean Gardiner, Sylvia Walby, Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes, Rosemary
Crompton
Chair: Ceridwen Roberts
Day Two Friday 7 September: Effecting Change inn Gender Relations in Work
Session 1: Evaluating Policies to date
Speakers: Julia Brannen, Jet Bussemaker, Lynee Berry
Chair: Ceridwen Roberts
Session 2: Proposals for change
Speakers: Jane Lewis, Ruth Lister, Richard Collier, Suzan Lewis
Discussant: Rosemary Crompton
Plenary Session: Summing up: proposals for further research and action
Chairs: Abigail Gregory and Jan Windebank
Ruth Lister
Professor of Social Policy
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough, Leicestershire.
LE11 3TU UK
Tel: +44 -(0)1509 223350
Fax: +44 -(0)1509 223944 omit the '0' from outside the UK
Loughborough Social Sciences is on:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/
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