Event

The Credit Crunch: Gender Equality in Hard Times         Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science (Festival programme) Queen's College, University of Cambridge, Old Kitchens Friday, 6 March 2009, 13.00-16.30 Presentations Press coverage: Time; TimesOnline; The Hindu; Financial Times; Scotsman Conference report in Equal Opportunities International Anke C. Plagnol and Jacqueline Scott. "Report on a seminar on gender equality during the credit crunch". Equal Opportunities International. 28(6), pp. 532-535 (2009)

The event is held as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and free to attend.

Overview

13.00-13.30	Registration and lunch
13.30-15.00	Presentations and questions
15.00-15.15	Coffee and biscuits
15.15-15.45	Presentations and questions
15.45-16.30	Discussion

Presentations:

‘Minimum wage and gender equality’
Professor William Brown, University of Cambridge (Presentation)

‘Are women bearing the burden of the crunch? What data does and does not tell us’
Dr Katherine Rake, Director, The Fawcett Society (Report)

‘Job insecurity and stress’
Dr Brendan Burchell, University of Cambridge (Presentation (pptx)(ppt))

‘Sink jobs and gender inequalities’
Professor Shirley Dex, Institute of Education (Presentation)

Chair: Ceridwen Roberts, University of Oxford

Organised by Dr Jackie Scott and Dr Anke Plagnol, ESRC Gender Equality Network, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3RQ.