Panels

Day One – 21 June 2007

1. Gender and work/ Claire Annesley (Manchester)

• Colette Fagan with Dominique Anxo, Marie-Thérèse Letablier, Corrine Perraudin and Mark Smith - Different models of part-time
  work in Europe and the question of ‘work-life balance’ across the life course
• Mara Yerkes - Part-time Work in the Dutch Welfare State: the ideal combination of work and care?
• Jenny Rodriguez - Women and Gender Policy in Dominican Public Sector

2. Household division of Labour/ Vanessa Gash (Manchester) and Lynn Cooke (Kent)

• Ida Öun – Work-family conflict in the Nordic Countries: A comparative analysis
• Jennifer L. Hook – Gender Equality in the Welfare State: Sex Segregation in Housework 1965-2003
• Haya Stier and Noah Lewin-Epstein – Policy Effects of the Division of Housework
• Alison Smith – Working Fathers in Europe: earning and caring

3. State Feminism / Johanna Kantola (Helsinki)

• Pauline Rankin – Only for Export? State Feminism, Restructuring and the Promotion of Gender Mainstreaming Abroad
• Christine Scheidegger – Pathways to Swiss State Feminism
• Jennifer Curtin and Katherine Teghtsoonian – Analysing the Institutional Persistence of State Feminism in Aotearoa/New Zealand

4. Economic Relationships in the Family/ Karen Clarke (Manchester)

• Deborah Brennan - The Politics of Work - family reconciliation in Australia: feminism, fertility and finance
• Fran Bennett and Sirin Sung - Autonomy, coupledom and gendered roles in low to moderate income families with children: implications for fiscal policy
• Heike Trappe and Annemette Sørensen - On the persistence and causes of economic dependence in marriage
• Alena Krížková - Why three years of holiday don't make the fertility rate higher?

5. Engendering Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism/ Meryl Kenny (Edinburgh)

• Joan Grace – The Politics of Policy Transformation
• Meryl Kenny – ‘Engendering’ the New Insititutionalism: Connecting Gender. Power and Change
• Marie Campbell – Taking the Standpoint of women to study the enacted institution: The case of internationally funded ‘empowerment’ projects in Kyrgyzstan.

6. Gender, Ageing and Citizenship/ Kirstein Rummery (Manchester)

• Kathrin Komp - The Young Old as a Gendered Characteristic of Welfare States
• Debora Price – What do Proposed UK Pension Reforms Mean For Women?
• Patricia Frericks and Robert Maier - Worlds of Legitimate Welfare Arrangements: a realistic utopia on pensions

7. Gender and the EU I/ Colette Fagan and Claire Annesley (Manchester)

• Ayse Idil Aybars - Gender and the EU: Europeanisation of Gender Equality in Employment across Welfare Regimes
• Isabelle Carles - The European Union and migrant women: Do racial antidiscrimination European policies integrate a gender dimension?
• Claire Annesley – Lisbon and Social Europe: Towards a European ‘Adult Worker Model’ welfare system

8. Broadening Understandings of Engendering Politics and Policy/ Cristina Masters (Manchester) and Georgina Waylen (Sheffield)

• Piya Pangsapa – Women Workers and Civic Engagement in South East Asia
• Ayse Gonullu – Contemporary Women’s Activism in Engendering the Political
• Donna Pankhurst – Post-war Backlash Against Women: What can Masculinity Explain?

Day Two – 22 June 2007

9. Gender and the EU II (Sponsored by JMCE)/ Colette Fagan and Claire Annesley (Manchester)

• Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrcela - Gender and employment in Slovenia after entry to the EU
• Lilja Mósesdóttir - Gender (in)equalities in the Knowledge Society
• Monica Threlfall - EU gender-blindness regarding the economy of care and unpaid work – Revisioning citizen activity

10. Engendering Care /Harriet Churchill and Vanessa May (Manchester)

• Kirstein Rummery – The Gendered Implications for Cash for Care: A comparative Analysis of commodifying disability support services
• Anneli Rüling – Traditionalisation Traps in German Family Policy: Experiences of shared parenting couples

11. Gender, Work and Pay/ Damian Grimshaw (Manchester)

• Milja Saari - Gender equality plans at Finnish white collar workplaces and the shop steward’s role in promoting equal pay between women and men – the discursive framings of the gender wage gap
• Akwugo Emejulu - Understanding the Interaction of Ethnicity and Gender in Determining Labour Market Outcomes and Economic Well-being
• Isabel Tavora - Understanding the high rates of employment amongst low educated women in Portugal

12. Work-Family Relationships/Karen Clarke (Manchester)

• JaneMaree Maher - Forming Australian families: Gender ideologies and policy settings
• Piotr Michon - Work, Motherhood and Happiness: Mothers’ Subjective Well-being in Seven European Union Countries
• Hadas Mandel - Ideology, Family- Policy Regimes and Gender Economic Inequality: Different Models, Different Tradeoffs

13. Gendering Political Parties / Jill Lovecy (Manchester)

• Christina Bergqvist – Women as Policy-makers not Policy-takers. A historical perspective on the case of women’s representation in Sweden.
• Celia Valiente – Why 36% of Spanish Members of Parliament are Women: the effectiveness of quota
• Rainbow Murray – Have French Political Parties Delivered for Women in the 2007 Presidential and Legislative Elections?