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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 |
| 17.30-18.30 | Plenary
lecture by Professor Nancy Folbre ( |
| 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 |
