The IAFFE 2003 Conference in Barbados
DRAFT Schedule 5/30/03
Please note that this program is only preliminary and is subject to changes
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Back to the 2003 Conference on Feminist Economic Home PageThursday, June 26
9:00 – 12:00 Economics Editorial Board retreat
12:00 – 2:00 Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:00 Finance Committee (over lunch)
2:00 – 4:00 IAFFE Board meeting
4:00 – 4:30 Refreshment Break
4:30 – 6:00 Board Meeting
6:30 or 7 p.m. Board/IAFFE Board dinner
Friday, June 27th
9:00 Conference Inaguration
Chair: Eudine Barriteau, The
Centre for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies
"Charting Our Course: Issues and Responses to Developmental Challenges
in the Caribbean," Cecilia Keturah Babb, Deputy Coordinator of Caribbean
Policy Development Centre, Caribbean Regional Coordinator with Development
Alternatives for Women with a New Era (DAWN)
10:15 AM - 11:45 PM Concurrent Sessions
1A. Gender Budgets
Chair: Donna St. Hill, Commonwealth Secretariat
°Caren Grown and Kathleen Barnett, International Center for Research on
Women (ICRW), "Gender Dimensions of Taxation and
Implications for Tax Policy in Developing Countries"
°Respondents: A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Institute of
Social Studies, Sue Himmelweit, TheOpen University
2A. Is Paid Family Leave Good for Women?
Chair: Saliwe Kawewe, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
°Vicky Lovell & Heidi Hartmann, IWPR, “Paid Family
Leave in the US: What do Women Need?”
°Donna S. Lero, “The Expansion of Paid Family Leave in
Canada and Its Impact on Women”
°Kimberly Morgan & Kathrin Zippel, “Paid to Care: The
Origins and Effects of Care Leave Policies in Western Europe”
°Randy Albelda,University of Massachusetts, Boston, “Estimating
the Costs of Paid Parental Leave: The Case of Massachusetts”
3A. Reproductive Technologies and Social Policy: What are the Implications
for Women’s Human Rights?
Chair: Joyce Jacobsen, Wesleyan University
°Navsharan Singh, “Of Amniocentesis, Female Fetuses, Little
Girls and Women: New Reproductive Technologies and Sex-Selective Abortions
in India”
°Shree Mulay, McGill Centre for Research and Training on Women, Montreal,
Canada.“Bioethics of Quinacrine Sterilization Informed Consent
and Contraceptive Trials: Implications for the Human Rights of Women”
°Renate Klein, Deakin University, “(In)Fertility Business
at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Who Pays the Price?”
°Santosh Nandal, MD University, India, "The Social Context
of Sex Selection Technology and Declining Sex Ratio in India"
4A. State Policies, Work, & Women’s Empowerment
Chair: Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College
° Ellen Mutari, Richard Stockton College, “Policy Responses
to Employment Flexibility in Industrialized Countries”
°Elena Gvozdeva, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering
& Galina Gvozdeva, Institute of Economics, "Gender Dimensions
in Employment in the Transitional Economy of Russia"
°Ann Denis, University of Ottawa, “State Policies and Work:
A Comparative Exploration of the Impact of State Policies on Women in Barbados
and in the Caribbean Diaspora in Canada”
°Smriti Rao, University of Massachusetts, “Liberalization
and Women’s Empowerment: Gender and the State in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh”
5A. Gender Issues in the Multilateral Trading System
Chair: Mariama Williams, Institute for Law and Economics (Jamaica)/IGTN/Center
of Concern
°Zo Ramdriamaro, Gender and Economic Reform Project (GERA), “An
Overview of the Research Results of Investigations on Gender, Trade and Investment
in Selected African Countries”
°Marina Durano, Asia Gender and Trade Network, “Marketization
of Social Reproduction in the New Service-led Economy”
°Barbara Evers, University of Manchester/Women Working Worldwide and
IGTN-Europe, “Trade Policy Review and the Needs and Priorities:
The Case of Women Horticultural Workers in Kenya”
°Alma Espino, El Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre el Desarrollo,
Uruguay/the Latin America Gender and Trade Network, “Labor, Gender
and Trade in Uruguay”
6 A. Sex & Women’s Bodies
Chair: S. Charusheela,University of Hawaii, Manoa,
°Natalie Reaves, Rowan University, “Contraceptives as Orphan
Drugs: Let the Second Revolution Begin!”
°Della Giusta Marina, University of Reading, Maria Laura Di Tommaso,
University of Turin, & Strom Steinar, University of Oslo, “The
Economics of Prostitution: An Empirical Study Based on Data From Sweden and
the USA”
°Kamala Kempadoo, York University, “The Global War on Trafficking”
°Anil Persaud, Jawaharlal Nehru University, “Fertility,
Unnatural Sex and Fetishism: Creating Value in the Emancipated British Sugar
Colonies”
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
1B. Reconceptualizing Employment: Control, Security and Voice
Chair: Kathleen Barnet, International Center for Research on
Women
°Imraan Valodia, University of Natal, & Caroline Skinner, University
of Natal, “Data and the Reconceptualisation of Work: Some Issues
in South Africa”
°Martha Chen, University of Harvard, & Jeemol Unni, Gujerat Institute
for Development Research (GIDR), “Non-Standard Work in the North
and Informal Work in the South: Overlapping Employment Statuses or a Continuum
of Employment Statuses?”
°Ratna Sudarshan, National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER),
& Martha Chen, Harvard University, “Reconceptualizing Controls”
°Jeemol Unni, Gujerat Institute for Development Research (GIDR),
“Reconceptualizing Security”
2B. Amartya Sen’s Work and Ideas: A Gender Perspective: Release
of Special Issue of Feminist Economics
Chair: Bina Agarwal, University of Delhi (guest editor)
Presentation by guest editors:
°Bina Agarwal, University of Delhi, "Introducing the Special
Issue"
°Jane Humphries, Oxford University, "Amartya Sen’s Ideas
and Feminist Economic History"
°Ingrid Robeyns, University of Amsterdam, "Reflecting on Amartya
Sen’s Ideas and Feminist Economics"
Commentators on the Special Issue:
°Frances Woolley, Carleton University
°Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
°Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University
Formal Release: Journal Editor (Diana Strassmann)
3B. Wage Differentials I: Experiences from Mexico, Israel, Sweden,
& Belgium
Chair: Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Miami University
°Isabel Rueda Peiro, Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas, UNAM,
“Unemployment in Mexican Women”
°Edward Sayre & Jennifer Olmsted, Occidental College, “Labor
Market Disruptions and Wage Differences: A Natural Experiment from Israel”
°Lena Nekby, Trade Union Institute for Economic Research, “Gender
Differences in Rent Sharing and its Implications for the Gender Wage Gap”
°Francois Rycx, Ilan Tojerow, Free University of Brussels, “Rent
Sharing and the Gender Wage Gap in Belgium: Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm
Data”
4B. How the World Taxes Families
Chair: Julie Nelson, Tufts University
°Paloma de Villota, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Prejudicial
Effects of Joint Assessment, Quotien Familial, Optional Taxation on Single
Parent Families in European Union: The Case of France and Spain”
°Elisabeth Gugl, Rice University, “Joint vs. Individual
Taxation and Intrafamily Distribution”
°Ingrid Osika, Linkoping University, “Sighting Society
– Taxes in a Gender Perspective”
5B. Full Steam Ahead: Gender Effects on Trade and Development in the
Context of Economic Liberalization
Chair: Sule Ozler, University of California, Los Angeles
°Linda Lucas, Eckerd College, “Women Workers in Uganda:
Are they positioned to benefit from new trade?”
°Consolata Kabonesa, Makerere University, “Under the Leaves:
The Changing Roles of Women in Tobacco Growing Households in Uganda”
°Yada Praparpun, Ramkhamhaeng University, “From
the Factories to the Streets: The Problems Facing Unskilled Female Workers
in Thailand”
°Radhika Balakrishnan, Marymount Manhattan College,
“Why do Firms Disintegrate? Towards an Understanding of the Firm Level
Decision to Subcontract and its Impact on Labor”
6B. Gender & Aging
Chair: Agneta Stark, Linkoping University
°Funmi Bickersteth, Obafemi Awolowo University, & Janet Olusi,
Obafemi Awolowo University, “An Analysis of Aged Women’s
Economic Activities: The Nigerian Examples”
°Sunhwa Lee, Institute for Women’s Policy Research,
Lois Shaw, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, & Heidi Hartmann,
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “The Income Sources
of the U.S. Elderly”
°Luisa Gonzalez Martin, National University of Mexico, “A
Dignity Pension: Women’s Human Rights in a Global World”
7B. Entrepreneurs, Migrant Workers and Poverty Dynamics in the Informal Sector
Chair: Ashwini Deshpande, University of Delhi
°Odebode Olasunbo, Institute of Social Studies The Hague,
“Female Micro-Entrepreneurs in the Urban Informal Sector in Nigeria:
A Case Study”
°Maria Floro, American University, & John Messier, Gettysburg
College, “Poverty Dynamics in an Urban Informal Economy: A Gender
Perspective”
°Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney, “Reclaiming Economic
Spaces: Migrant Women Workers, the Informal Economy and Transnational Identities”
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
1C. Employment: The Missing Link of Growth and Poverty
Chair: Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University
°Martha Chen, Harvard University & WIEGO, “Work and
the Working Poor: The 'Missing Link' in the Globalization Debate”
°Imraan Valodia, University of Natal, South Africa and WIEGO, &
Caroline Skinner, University of Natal, South Africa and WIEGO, “Growth,
Poverty and Employment: The Informalisation of Work in South Africa's Clothing
Industry”
°Ratna Sudarshan, National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER),
Delhi, India, & Jeemol Unni, Gujerat Institute for Development Research
(GIDR), Ahmedabad, India, & Uma Rani, Gujerat Institute for Development
Research (GIDR), Ahmedabad, India, “Growth, Poverty and Gender
in India: Some empirical insights”
2C. Gender Issues in Small Enterprises
Chair: Alica Giron, UNAM
°Alexis M. Gardella, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture,
“Lessons from Micro-Credit Lending to Haitian Women: The KrediFanm Project”
° Semsa Özar, Bogazici University, "Barriers Faced by Female
Entrepreneurs of Micro and Small Enterprises in Turkey: Empirical and Methodological
Findings"
°Irene Van Staveren, ISS The Hague, & A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi,
Institute of Social Studies, “A Gender Analysis of Taxes in the
SME Sector in Vietnam”
3C. Doing Feminist Economics in the Classroom
Chair: Marianne Ferber, University of Illinois
°Robin Bartlett, Dennison University,“The Virtuous Feminist
Classroom?”
°KimMarie McGoldrick, University of Richmond, & Gail Mitchell
Hoyt, University of Kentucky, “Everything I Ever Need to Know About
Economics I Got From the Headlines: Media Influences on Economic Literacy”
°Julie Nelson, Tufts Universitiy, "Feminist Economics
in the Introductory Economic Course"
°Jean Shackelford, Bucknell University, “Feminist Peagogy
in Economists ABC, 1-2-3”
4C. Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
Chair: Deborah Figart, Richard Stockton College
°Ashwini Deshpande, University of Delhi, “Gender Discrimination
at the Workplace: India, Bangladesh, and China”
°Lena Lavinas, ILO, "Harassment on the Job: the Consequences
for Women's Employment"
°Natacha Thys The International Labour Rights Rund (ILRF)/US Gender
and Trade Network, “Strengthening Anti-discrimination in ILO”
5C. Globalization & Livelihood
Chair: Consolata Kabonesa, Makerere University
°Nadima Simon Dominguez, National University of Mexico, & María
Luisa Mendoza Tello, National University of Mexico, “Job Conditions
of Mexican Women in the Garment Industry”
°D. Alissa Trotz, University
of Toronto, “Caribbean Livelihoods in Transnational Perspective”
°Paulette Olson, Wright State University, “Gender and Involuntary
Migration: A Comparative Study of Cuban and Vietnamese Migrants in the United
States”
6C. Development & Feminism
Chair: Donna St. Hill, Commonwealth Secretariat
°Sule Ozler, University of California, Los Angeles, & Erol Taymaz,
METU, "The Gender Dimensions of Contingent Work: A comparison of
Turkey and the EU"
°Alejandra Arroyo, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, & Eugenia
Correa, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, “Development Paradigm
and Democratic Change with Gender Perspective”
°Alexandra Bernasek, Colorado State University, “Feminism,
Work, and Human Rights: Lessons for Development”
°Tatjana Djuric Kuzmanovic, The Advanced Business School,
Novi Sad, Serbia, "Transition, Privatisation and Gender in Serbia
- Impact on Labour Market"
7C. Postcolonialism Meets Economics (Roundtable Discussion)
Chair: S. Charusheela, University of Hawaii, Manoa
°Robert Dimand, Brock University
°Ulla Grapard, Colgate University
°Nitasha Kaul, University of the West of England, UK
°Colin Danby, University of Washington, Bothell
8C. Life and Debt (a movie)
4:15 - 5:45 PM - IAFFE Membership Meeting
6:00 - Departure time for buses to dinner
6:30 - Dinner
Saturday, June 28th
7:00-8:15 IAFFE-Europe Meeting - Refreshment Tents
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Concurrent Sessions
1D. Women’s International Feminist Alliances for Social and Economic
Change Roundtable
Chair: Peggy Antrobus, University of the West Indies - DAWN
°Mariama Williams, Institute for Law and Economics (Jamaica
International Gender & Trade Network - /IGTN/Center of Concern
°Zo Ramdriamaro, Gender and Economic Reform Project - GERA
°Rosalba Todaro, Women's Studies Centre, Santiago, Chile
- Cartegena Initiative - GERA
°Angela Miles, Feminists for a Gift Economy
°Drucilla Barker, Hollins University - IAFFE
°Charlotte Bunch - Women's Rights Alliances and Networks
2D. Gender & Labor Markets: Changing Dynamics
Chair: Cecilia Rio, Towson University
°Martha Macdonald, St. Mary’s University, Barbara Neis &
Brenda Grzetic, “Restructuring and Changing Work Patterns in Rural
Canada”
°Katalin Konez, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public
Administration, "Women and Labour Markets During the Transitional
Period in Hungary"
° Madhura Swaminathan, Indian Statistical Institute, & Sharmila
Singha, “Women Workers in Urban India: Changing Patterns of Gender
Segregation"
°Karin Astrid Siegmann, University of Bonn, "'Just our Husbands'
Helpers' - Gender-Differentiated Labour Markets in Large Estates in North
Sumatra,"
3D. Gender & Economic Policy: Engendering Public Expenditure
Chair: Eudine Barriteau, University of the West Indies
°Guelay Caglar, University of Kassel, “'Gender-Sensitive
Budgeting' in the International Discourse on Economic Development”
°Michaela Prokop, Asian Development Bank, “Gender Sensitive
Public Expenditure Management: Experiences from a Pilot Study in the Pacific”
°Tindara Addabbo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Diego Lanzi,
University of Bologna, & Antonella Picchio, University of Modena and Reggio
Emilia, “The Sense, the Colour and the Weight of Money: Public
Budgets in Emilia-Romagna, Italy”
4D. Gender & Property: Foreseen and Unforeseen Outcomes
Chair: Carmen Diana Deere, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
°Carmen Diana Deere,University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Rosaluz
Duran, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Merrilee Mardon, & Tom Masterson,
"Gender, Land Rights and Rural Household Incomes in Latin America"
°P. Panda, Centre for Development Studies, & Bina Agarwal,University
of Delhi, "Spousal violence in India: Does Women's Property Status
Make a Difference?"
°Smriti Rao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “The
Return of the Dowry in Rural Telangana, South India”
5D. Mothers Without Partners: Policy Issues from Around the World
Chair: Sue Himmelweit, Open University
°Barbara Bergmann, American University/University of Maryland, “Designing
Policies for Helping Single Mothers”
°Saliwe Kawewe, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, &
Ortrude Moyo, University of Southern Maine, “Gendered Socioeconomic
Conditions and Livelihoods of Rural and Urban Lone Mothers and Children in
Zimbabwe: Policy Implications for Sustainable Development in the Global Economy”
°Shireen Kanji, London School of Economics, “Beyond the
Conventions: Lone Mothers in Russia”
6D. Post-Keynesian Contributions to Feminist Economics
Chair: Irene van Staveren, ISS The Hague
°Lourdes Beneria,Cornell University, & Maria Sagrario
Floro, American University “Distribution, Gender and Labor Market
Informalization: The Case of Home-Based Workers”
°S. Charusheela,University of Hawaii, Manoa, “A Through-Time
Framework for Producer Households”
°Colin Danby, University of Washington, Bothell, “Elements
of a Gendered Post Keynesianism”
°Esteban Perez, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean, & Karoline Schmidt,United Nations Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, “Macroeconomic
Stabilization Policy and its Impact on Gender”
7D. Life and Debt (a movie)
10:00 AM Refreshment Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 noon Concurrent Sessions
1E.
2E. Beyond the JEL: Feminism and the Classification of Economic Knowledge
(Roundtable Discussion)
Chair: Jean Shackelford, Bucknell University
°Diana Strassmann, Rice University
°Sherry Dixon, Taylor & Francis
°Gabrielle Meagher, University of Sydney
°Nitasha Kaul, University of the West of England
3E. Activist Approaches to Gender Issues
Chair: Karen Gibson, Portland State University
°Robert Prasch, Middlebury College, “A Wage of One’s
Own: Women Scholar-Activists and Progressive Era Minimum Wage Legislation
for Women: 1912-1923”
°Maria Grisel Ortiz Gomes, ANEC, & Lourdes Rodriguez Ruiz, ANEC,
“Mujer y Economia: Es Inequidad, Desigualdad o Discriminacion?"
"Women and the Economy: Is it Inequity, Inequality or Discrimination?"
°Lena Lavinas, ILO, Bila Sorj, UFRJ, & Vera Soares, AGENDE,
"Feminism and Political Shift in Brazil: A New Era to Promote A
Radical Gender Agenda"
°Karin Schoenpflug, University of Vienna, “A (Gender) Compass
Needed to Steer Through BEGP and EES”
4E. Reproductive Work I: Policy & Caring Responsibilities
Chair: Wako Asato, Ryukoku University
°Kate Stirling, University of Puget Sound, “The Impact of Child
Support: Balancing the Economic Needs of Children and Their Noncustodial Parents”
°Anita Nyberg, National Institute for Working Life, “Child
Home Care Allowance – A Blessing or a Trap for Women?”
°Susan Himmelweit, Open University, “Policy and Women’s
Caring Responsibilities: Changing the Constraints or Changing the Choices”
°Lynn Hatch, University of Massachusetts, “Exit and Voice:
Labor Turnover in Early Care and Educational Programs"
5E. Women & Finance
Chair: Odebode Olasunbo, Institute of Social Studies The Hague
° Alicia Giron, Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas,UNAM, “Women’s
Human Rights and Market Societies: Instability and Financial Crisis”
°Susan Johnson, University of Bath, “An Approach to Analyzing
the Gender Embeddedness of Financial Markets Using Evidence from Kenya”
°Fatma Gul Unal, University of Massachusetts, “The Impact
of Capital Flight on Female Poverty in Turkey”
6E. New Directions in Feminist Economics I
Chair: Chinwe Madubuike, London School of Economics
°Edith Kuiper, Universiteit van Amsterdam, “’Man’
in the History of Economics”
°Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, “African
Diaspora Women: Gender, Race, Nation and Policies”
°Cecile Sabourin, UQAT, “Women and Economy: Building Alliances
for a Transformation of the Dominant Economic Paradigm, Project of Communication”
°Ellie Perkins, York University, “Collaborative Theory
and the Growth of the Feminist Ecological Economics”
7E. Life and Debt (a movie)
12:00 noon - 1:00 PM Lunch
*Book Club will assemble and begin discussion during lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
1F. Book Club Session
"High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women,
Work and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean," by Carla C. Freeman
Convened by: Drucilla Barker, Hollins University, V. Spike Petersen,
University of Arizona, Jean Shackelford, Bucknell University, & Laura
Pairsi, University of Arizona
2F. Understanding Origins: Feminist Theory and Evolutionary Biology
Chair: Frances Woolley, Carleton University
°Liz Stanton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
“Co—evalution, Agriculture and Patriarchy”
°Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, & Suresh
Naidu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “The Rise of the Chicken-Hawks:
On the Evolution of Patriarchal Systems”
°Joyce Jacobsen,Wesleyan University, “Treatment of the
Elderly”
3F. Engendering Labor Markets
Chair: Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts, Boston
°Karin Astrid Siegmann, University of Bonn, “Serving Multiple
Masters – Gendered Work and Wages in Bali’s Tourism Industry”
°Pinglawathie Lalthapersad Pillay, University of South Africa,
“African Women and the Casualization of Labor – the Indelible
Connection”
°Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, Miami University, “African Women
in the Work Place: The Politics of Labor, Gender and Identity”
°Tatyana Teplova, Carleton University, "Balancing Work and
Care in the Post-Soviet Russian Labour Market"
4F. The Gender Dimensions of Macroeconomic Policy in Latin America
& the Caribbean
Chair: Rosalba Todaro, Women's Studies Centre, Santiago, Chile
°Marsha Caddle,Gender Security and Rights, UNIFEM, “Gender
Budget Analysis of the National Budget of Belize”
°Mariama Williams, Institute for Law and Economics (Jamaica)/IGTN/Center
of Concern, “The Gender Dimension of Macroeconomic Policy in Jamaica”
°Arlette Beltran, Centro de Investigacion, Universidad del Pacifico,
“Analisis del presupuesto publico con enfoque de genereo: el caso de
la municpalidad de Villa El Salvador (Lima-Peru)” (“An Analysis
of the Public Budget from a General Approach: the Case of the Municipality
of Villa El Salvador (Lima, Peru)”)
°Peggy Androbus, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
(DAWN), “Macro-Micro Linkages: Women’s Empowerment as a Mitigating
Force to Counter Negative Impacts of Macroeconomic Policies”
°Helena Hofbauer, Fundar. Centro de Analisis e Investigacion,
“La Iniciativa Mexicana de Presupuestos Sensibles al Genero: Avances
y Desafios” "The Mexican Initiative for Gender-Sensitive Public
Budgets: Advances and Challenges"
Release of the Book “Gender Budgets Initiatives: Strategies,
Concepts and Experience”
Introduction by Diane Elson, University of Essex
5F. Conceptual Challenges: Intra-household Inequality
Chair: Nitasha Kaul, University of the West of England, UK
°Nan Wiegersma, Fitchburg State College, “Women’s
Household Roles and Responsibilities: Women as the Problem Solvers of American
Consumerism”
°Cecilia Rio, Towson University, “Whiteness in Feminist
Economics: The Situation of Race in Bargaining Models of the Household and
Its Influences in Feminist Economics”
°Ingrid Robeyns, University of Amsterdam, “Is the Traditional
Intra-household Gender Division of Labor Unjust?”
°Martha Macdonald, St. Mary’s University, Shelley Phipps, Dalhousie
University, & Lynn Lethbridge, Dalhousie University, “Taking
its Toll: Implications of Paid and Unpaid Work Responsibilities for Women’s
Well-being”
6F. Women’s Struggles for Power: Activism & Social Change
Chair: Elisabetta Addis, University of Roma
°Barbara Hopkins, Wright State University, “Feminist Activism
vs. Participatory Development: Women in Russia”
°Ann Oberhauser, “Women’s Struggles for Power and
Community in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
°Kade Finnoff, University of Massachusetts, & Robert Reinauer,
University of Massachusetts, “Breaking the Cycle: Empowered Women
in Post-Bellum Guatemala”
°Anene Ejikeme, Barnard College, “The Pursuit of International
Sisterhood: WILPF in Nigeria, 1950-1970”
7F. Economic Human Rights: Problems, Prospects and Multidisciplinary
Perspectives
Chair: Natalia Kanem, The Ford Foundation
°Uma Narayan,Vasser College,“Women Workers in the Informal
Sector: Special Challenges for Economic Human Rights”
°Anita Nayar, University of Sussex, “The Implications
for Property Rights of the Commercialization of Forest Resources and Knowledge
Systems”
°Rajeev Patel, Cornell University, “The Rights
Based Approach to Food Security, a Critical Analyses”
°Hande Keklik, UNIFEM, and the University of Utah, “Human
Rights and Economic Development: Can Domestic Workers Break the Perpetual
Cycle?”
°Radhika Balakrishnan, Marymount Manhattan College,
“Economic Rights vs. Critical Development”
2:30 PM Refreshment Break
3:00 Conference Plenary
Feminist Economics: Challenges for the Future
Chair: Rosalba Todaro, Women's Studies Centre, Santiago, Chile
Bina Agarwal, University of Delhi
Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College
Mary Gray, American University
Uma Narayan,Vasser College
4:30-5:15 Graduate Student Caucus
5:00-Principal's Reception
Host: Dr. Hilary Beckels, Principal, University of the West Indies,
Cave Hill
Cultural Celebration sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat
6:15 RhondaWilliams Prize Celebration
Dinner Following
Sunday, June 29th
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Concurrent Sessions
1G. Reproductive Work II
Chair: Agneta Stark, Linkoping University
°Gabrielle Meagher, University of Sydney, “Australia’s
Caring Labor Force: Characteristics and Dynamics”
°Ruth Habgood, University of Melbourne, “Gender, Emotional
Work and the Domestic Division of Labor”
°V. Ma. Antonieta Martin Granados, National University of Mexico,
“The Child Care System in Mexico”
°Wako Asato, Ryukoku University, “Contestation of Foreign
Domestic Workers for the Welfare in the Receiving Society – Politics
of Reproductive Labor in Hong Kong”
2G. Globalization & Gender
Chair: Eudine Barriteau, University of the West Indies
°Emel Memis, University of Utah, “Globalization from a
Feminist Perspective”
°Nancy Hartsock, University of Washington, "Women and Globalization:
New Patterns of Primitive Accumulation"
°Roksana Bahramitash, Concordia University, “Islamisation,
Globalization, and Women’s Economic Role in Egypt”
°Kiran Mirchandani, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
“Making Americans: Transnational Call Center Work in India”
3G. International Trade I: Engendering Trade & Development
Chair: Mariama Williams, Institute for Law and Economics (Jamaica)/IGTN/Center
of Concern
°Parvin Alizadeh, Denison University, & Robin Bartlett, Denison
University, “The Phillips Curve in a Broader Context: The Case
of NAFTA”
°Susan Hawthorne, Victoria University, “Free Trade or Free
Access? The Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement”
°Shaianne Osterreich, Ithaca College, “Engendering Uneven
Development: Women and North-South Trade”
°Mechthild Schrooten, German Institute for Economic Research,
“Bringing Home the Money – Gender Issues and Workers’ Remittances”
4G. Women's Work, Families and Activism
Chair: Randy Albelda, University of Massachusetts, Boston
°Karen Gibson, Portland State University, “Raising Assets,
Earnings, and Esteem: The Housing Authority of Portland’s Family Self-Sufficiency
Program”
°Deborah Figart, Richard Stockton College, “Living Wage
Movements: Global Perspectives”
°Mary Spooner, Holy Cross Children's Services, Annette Mahoney, Hunter
College School of Social Work of the City University of New York & Christiana
Cummings, “Strengthening and Preserving Families at Home and Abroad”
°Falguni A. Sheth, Hampshire College,
"A Theoretical Critique of Feminist Accounts of Women's Work"
5G. Tales, Conflict & Change: Social Construction of Education
Chair: Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College
°Elena Flores Becerril, National Autonomous University of Mexico,
& Laura Montalvo Ramírez, National Autonomous University
of Mexico. “The Teaching of CEDAW in Business Schools”
°Emma Zapata Martelo, Colegio de Postgraduados en Ciencias Agrícolas,
Austreberta Nazar Beutelspacher, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Chiapas,
“Gender and Education: Intergenerational Changes in Rural Chiapas, Mexico”
°Dawn Richards Elliot, Texas Christian University, “Male
Marginalization with Male Socioeconomic Dominance: A Tale from the Caribbean”
6G. Women’s Well-being & Human Rights
Chair: Luisa Gonzalez Martin, National University of Mexico
°Julie Nelson, Tufts University, “Freedom, Reason, and
More: Feminist Economics and Human Development”
°Pradeep Kumar Panda, Centre for Development Studies, Kerala,
India, “Rights-Based Strategies in the Prevention of Domestic Violence”
°Simel Esim, International Center for Research on Women,
"Making the Law Work: Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence Policies
in Latin America"
°Sakuntala Narasimhan, “Globalization, Work and Women’s
Human Rights – the Indian Experience”
°Anne Boschini, London School of Economics, “Gender Gaps
in Happiness”
7G. Gender, Innovation & Technology
Chair: Anene Ejikeme, Barnard College
°Hacer Ansal, Instabul Technical University, “Women and
New Technologies: The Case of Turkish Electronics Industries”
°Sanae Tashiro, Claremont Graduate University, “Impact
of Computer-Use Differentials on Wages by Gender in the US: Evidence from
Occupations and Industries – 2001”
°Diane Flaherty, University of Massachusetts, “Gender and
Innovation in Traditional Sectors: The Case of South African Clothing”
10:00 AM Refreshment Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
1H. New Directions in Feminist Economics II
Chair: Janet Olusi, Obafemi Awolowo University
°V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona, “Analyzing and
Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies”
°Drucilla Barker, Hollins University, & Laura Parisi, University
of Arizona, “Interdisciplinary Feminist Approaches to the Study
of Gender and Globalization”
°Karin Schoenpflug, University of Vienna, “Utopian Visions
of Feminist Economics”
°Paula Mulinari, Linkoping University, “New Perspectives
in Gender Studies on the Labour Market”
2H. Contextualizing Research on Gender
Chair: Laurie Nisonoff, Hampshire College
°Lourdes Ferran, “A Gender Approach to Creation
of Value”
°Doris Weichselbaumer, University of Linz, Austria, & Rudolf Winter-Ebmer,
University of Linz, Austria, “The Effects of Markets, Politics,
and Society on the Gender Wage Differential: A Meta-Analysis”
°Daniele Meulders, Free University of Brussels, & Sile O’Dorchai,
Free University of Brussels, “Welfare State Comparisons and Motherhood”
° Elisabetta Addis, University of Roma, "A
'Symmetric' Welfare State: We need the Concept and We Need It"
3H. International Trade II
Chair: Kamala Kempadoo, York University
°Myriam Blin, University of Manchester, “Mauritian Export
Policy and Women’s Reproductive Role”
°Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Universidad de las Americas, Cristina Rodriguez,
United Nations Development Program, “Trade Liberalization and Gender
Inequality in Mexico 1989-2000”
°Gracia Clark, Indiana University, “Women Traders as Development
Experts”
°Navsharan Singh, National Council of Applied Economic Research,
“Continents Wide and Layers Deep: Gendered Labor Process and Garment
Industry in the Times of Restructuring”
4H. Gender Issues in Research Methods, Data Collection & Statistics
Chair: Maria S. Floro, American University
Discussant: Martha MacDonald, St. Mary's University
°Lorraine Corner, UNIFEM Asia-Pacific and Arab States, “From
Margins to Mainstream: From Gender Statistics to Engendering Statistical Systems”
°A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Institute of Social Studies, “Gender
Responsive Policy Analysis: the Role of Gender Blind Statistics”
°Nilufer Cagatay, University of Utah, Korkut Erturk, University
of Utah, & Manuel Monte, The Ford Foundation, "Feminist Knowledge Networking
on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics"
°Bill Gibson,University of Vermont, "Monitoring Labor Standards
in a Macroeconomic Context"
5H. Gender Empowerment & Social Change
Chair: Nadima Simon Dominguez, National University of Mexico
°Anup Dash, Utkal University, “Self-Help Groups, New Leadership
Building and Democratic Governance: The Case of Poor Tribal Women in Orissa
(India)”
°Ann Jennings, DePauw University, “Redefining Ideal Workers
and Good Jobs: The Potential for Feminist Convergence and Social Change”
°Chinwe Madubuike, London School of Economics, “Exploring
the Role of Critical Conscientization in Preventing
HIV/AIDS Amongst Women in Nigeria”
6H. Wage Differentials II
Chair: Pinglawathie Lalthapersad Pillay, University of South Africa
°Katarina Katz, Göteborg University, “Wages in Transition
– Gender Differentials in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia”
°Valeria Esquivel, Universidad Nacional de Genero Sarmiento, &
Jorge Paz, Conicet/UNSa, “Differences in Wages Between Men and
Women in Argentina Today: Is There an Inverse Gender Wage Gap”
°Francois Rycx, Ilan Tojerow, Free University of Brussels, “Inter-Industry
Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap in Belgium: Evidence From Matched
Employer-Employee Data”
°Carole A. Green, University of South Florida, & Marianne A. Ferber,
University of Illinois, “Do Detailed Work Histories Help to Explain
Gender and Race/Ethnic Wage Differentials?”
7H. Life and Debt (a movie)