Event
Gender Equality in Paid and
Unpaid Work
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Overview
(detailed programme)
| 10.00 – 10.30 |
Registration and coffee |
| 10.30 – 10.45 |
Welcome and Introduction |
| 10.45 – 12.15 |
Session 1: Equality in the
Labour Market |
| 12.15 – 12.45 |
Group discussions |
| 12.45 – 13.45 |
Lunch |
| 13.45 – 15.15 |
Session 2: Equality at Home |
| 15.15 – 16.00 |
Plenary discussion and group
report-back |
| 16.00 |
Tea and departure |
Conference aims
The conference will present and discuss
the latest evidence on gender (in)equality in paid and unpaid work. Our
audience will include academics, policy makers, pressure groups,
practitioners and third-sector workers who are concerned about the
current gender imbalance in paid and unpaid work. Our aim is to
identify short-term and longer-term priorities for policy intervention,
and to discuss realistic strategies for promoting greater
equality.
Background
Gender equality issues in paid and unpaid
work are long established and well known. Yet there are huge changes in
the social and economic context in which men and women live out their
work and family lives. The current generation of working parents make
choices and face constraints that their parents never encountered.
Getting the balance of paid and unpaid work right is an important
challenge for policy makers. The changing nature of work, the
development of more flexible working patterns, the narrowing
educational attainment between men and women, the rising economic costs
of juggling careers and motherhood, pose new challenges to men’s and
women’s work and family lives in the 21st century. These challenges are
global in scope. Changing patterns of migration and new human rights
discourse underline how gender aspects of paid and unpaid work vary
markedly by race and ethnicity, as well as by class and age. The
current economic crisis means that gender equality issues are at risk
of being shunted into the long grass, while immediate concerns focus on
stemming the rising tide of unemployment and minimising the dangers
posed by looming public service cuts. However, losing sight of gender
equality is short-sighted and costly because the balance of paid and
unpaid work matters hugely not just for the wellbeing of UK families,
but also for the life-chances of our children.
Participants & Audience
This conference will bring together
academics, policy makers and those interested in the changing
circumstances of employment and family to discuss the latest findings
and new evidence about gender equality in paid and unpaid work. The
purpose of the conference is to help identify priorities for policy
interventions and realistic strategies of achieving greater gender
equality in paid and unpaid work.
| 10.00 – 10.30 |
Registration
and
coffee
|
| 10.30 – 10.45 | Welcome and Introduction Professor Jacqueline Scott (University of Cambridge) Director of the ESRC Research Network on Gender Equality (GeNet) |
| 10.45 – 12.15 | Session 1. Equality in the
Labour Market A. Professor Linda McDowell (University of Oxford) Title: Diversity, difference and discrimination: Migrant workers in health and hospitality (abstract)(presentation) B. Professor Shirley Dex (Institute of Education, London) Title: The ups and downs of women’s and men’s careers (abstract)(presentation) Discussant: Ceridwen Roberts (University of Oxford) Chair: Jeannie Drake CBE (Acting Chair Personal Accounts Delivery Authority) |
| 12.15 – 12.45 | Group discussions |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45 – 15.15 | Session 2. Equality at Home A. Fran Bennett (Oxford University), Professor Sue Himmelweit (Open University) & Professor Holly Sutherland (University of Essex) Title: Within household inequalities: policy implications (abstract)(presentation) B. Professor Jonathan Gershuny (University of Oxford) Title: Gendered divisions of labour and the intergenerational transmission of inequality (abstract)(presentation) Discussant: Professor Sue Yeandle (University of Leeds) Chair: Rita Donaghy CBE (Former Chair – ACAS) |
| 15.15 – 16.00 | Plenary discussion and group report-back Paid and Unpaid Work – the Equality Agenda Chair: Angela Mason CBE (Chair of the Fawcett Society) |
| 16.00 | Tea and departure |
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.
