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Gender, Class, Employment and Family

City University, London, 27-28 March 2008

Conference summary (pdf)

Seminar Programme (pdf):

Stream 1: Families and households
Stream 2: Gender, careers and labour markets
Stream 3: Changing definitions and categories; class

Thursday 27 March 2008

16.30-17.00  Registration
17.00-17.30
Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Malcolm Gillies
Introduction by  Professor Jacqueline Scott, University of Cambridge
17.30-18.30 Plenary lecture by Professor Nancy Folbre
(
University of Massachusetts, Amherst): ‘Economies of Care' Presentation
18.30-19.30  Wine reception


Friday 28 March 2008

9.30-9.45
Welcome and coffee
9.45-11.15
Stream 1 (Family and ethnicity) Chair: Susan McRae

Not so liquid living? Employment and care in Muslim women's lives
Harriet Bradley Presentation

Ethnic differences in labour market participation over the lifecourse: ' individualization' and the family
Angela Dale Presentation

Stream 2 (Making transitions) Chair: Vanessa Gash

Gender differentiation in transitions to work and family-related roles
Ingrid Schoon and Andy Ross
Presentation

Transitions in employment around childbirth
Tiziana Nazio

Stream 3 (Gender and class) Chair: Ceridwen Roberts

Gender, employment and class
Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette Presentation

Understanding women’s employment in Europe: the importance of class and gender
Tracey Warren Presentation
11.15-11.45
Coffee
11.45-13.15
Stream 1 (Within the household) Chair: David Perfect

Within household inequalities across classes? Money management and income
Fran Bennett, J De Henau, Susan Himmelweit, Sirin Sung and Holly Sutherland Presentation

Money, power and spending decisions in intimate relationships
Carolyn Vogler  Presentation

Stream 2 (Choices and careers) Chair: Judith Glover

Occupational ‘choices’: women’s paths into teaching and medicine
Fiona Devine Presentation

Courses, qualifications and career choices: does higher education amplify or reduce gender inequalities?
Kate Purcell  Presentation

Stream 3 (What do employers require?) Chair: Jan Pahl

Time, value and the end of the sexual contract
Lisa Adkins

Organisations, work and social divisions: the remaking of gender
Jan Webb Presentation
13.15-14.15
Lunch
14.15-15.45  Stream 1 (Family functioning and quality of life) Chair: Fiona Williams

TBA
Maria das Dorres Guerreiro

The influence of gender on perceptions of quality of life
Jane Nolan and Jackie Scott Presentation

Stream 2 (Labour markets) Chair: Jackie O’Reilly

Women’s employment in England: insights from local labour market analysis
Sue Yeandle Presentation

Gender and ethnic divisions in the Greater London Service Sector
Linda McDowell, Adina Batnitzky and Sarah Dyer  Presentation

Stream 3 (Analytical categories) Chair: Judy Wajcman

Where angels fear to tread: gender equality or gender equity?
Mary Campbell Presentation

Analyzing intersectionality of inequalities in employment
Diane Perrons and Wendy Sigle-Rushton Presentation
15.45-16.15
Tea
16.15-17.45
Stream 1 (Dual earner households) Chair: Colette Fagan

Division of domestic labour and women’s human capital
Man-Yee Kan and Jay Gershuny Presentation

Women’s labour market participation and income inequality: a study of dual earner couples in Norway, 1975-2004
Gunn Birkelund and Arne Mastekaasa Presentation

Stream 2 (Changes in careers) Chair: Jean Martin

Comparing ‘professional’ and ‘bureaucratic’ careers from a gender perspective in France and Britain
Nicky Lefeuvre Presentation

Bad start: is there a way up? Women’s and men’s occupational mobility in their early careers
Erzebet Bukodi, Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi  Presentation

Stream 3 (Changing ideas of ‘women’) Chair: Miriam Glucksmann

Remoralising motherhood: a study of Norwegian breastfeeding policy
Anne-Lise Ellingsaeter

Public Gender/Private Class: fashioning the feminine
Mary Evans  Presentation
18.00
Closing Reception, Social Science Atrium