Wednesday, June 16

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Thursday, June 17

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Friday, June 18

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Saturday June 19

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Ferber Swim Club

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Carleton University's 50 metre pool is open to the public Wednesday and Friday, 6:30-8:30 a.m., Tuesday and Thursday 7:30-8:30 a.m. Admission is $3.50. All those interested in joining the Ferber Swim Club should meet in the pool shortly after it opens. For more information about Carleton's athletic facilities, please see http://temagami.carleton.ca/athletics.

There will be publishers’ exhibits, a book display by Octopus Books, conference papers and an information desk in Room 408 Southam Hall for the duration of the conference.

Session 1A: Gender Budgets

Moderator: Diane Elson, UNIFEM

Integrating Gender into National Budgetary Processes: A Commonwealth Experience

The theory and practice of gender sensitive budgets: A challenge for feminist economics

Gender Budgets in South Africa

Julia de Bruyn

Session 1B: (Un)employment Insurance

From UI to EI: Impact of Changes to Low Income Supplements

Labour Market Effects of Maternity and Parental Leave Policies in Canada

The Texas Unemployment Insurance System: Barriers to Access for Low-Wage, Part-time and Women Workers.

Session 1C: Explorations

Moderator: Ingrid Robeyns, Cambridge

My Sisters' Choices: Feminist and Family Values

Rhetoric and Realism: Toward a Coherentist Account of Methodology

Spiritual Economics

Jonathan Neville, Queen’s University

Session 1D: Publishing in Feminist Economics

A roundtable on the reviewing process, editorial policies, and strategies to get published more quickly.

Session 1E: Book Club

Discussion of Ludic Feminism and After: Postmodernism, Desire and Labor in Late Capitalism by Teresa Ebert (University of Michigan Press, 1996). Paperback, $16.95. The session presenters invite everyone to attend and read the book in advance. Session reading: Ch. 1: "Feminism, Critique and the Matter of Materialism"; Chapter 2: "Cyborgs, Lust and Labor: The Crisis of Ludic Socialist Feminist"; Chapter 3: "Feminism and Resistance Postmodernism, pp.129-149; and Chapter 5: "Women and/as the Subaltern".

Plenary: What Questions Should Feminist Economic Theory Seek to Answer?

Reception and Book Display, Foyer, Tory Building

Dinner, Carleton University Club, Unicentre Building

Session 2A: The Interface between Gender and Macroeconomics

Session 2B: Child Care

Moderator: Nora Hammell, Status of Women Canada

What is Affordable Child Care and How Could We Get It?

Child Care: The Quality Problem

The Big Squeeze: Women, Work, Child-Care, and Elder-Care.

Session 2C: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Alternative Economic Knowledge

Moderator: David McInerney

Gender Knowledge and Capital: Toward a Feminist Reconceptualization of Investment Theory

Rethinking Prostitution: Beyond Commodification

Transforming Visions: Feminist Perspectives on Economic Restructuring and Alternative Economic Knowledges

A Postmodern Encounter: Poststructuralist Feminism and the Decentering of Marxism

Session 2D: Unpaid Work in APEC Countries

Moderator: Isa Bakker, York University

Unpaid work in Canada

Unpaid work in the US

APEC Project Overview

Session 2E: Collective strategies for work life improvement

Moderator: Ellen Mutari, Richard Stockton College

Women in the Indian Informal Economy: Organizing for Economic Security

Solidarity-based Strategies for Work Life Reform in the Domestic Services Industry

Men and Women in Africa's Plural Economies

Women's Strategies and Approaches in Forest Management and Conservation: A Case Study of Northeast Thailand

Session 3A: Transition Economies

Moderator: Zeynep Karman, Status of Women Canada

When the Margin Becomes the Core: Occupational Stratification and the Impact of the Economic Transition in Bulgaria on Women and Ethnic Minorities

Changes in Women's Position in Poland During the Transformation from the Centrally Planned to a Market Economy

Feminism, Czech Style

Session 3B: Women and Work

Moderator: Barbara Bergmann, American University

Long Hours and Short Hours: Patterns of Flexibility in the European Union

Technological Adoption, Work Organization and Gender: A Look at US Manufacturing Workers.

A Queen and an Exhibition: The start of a century that transformed the position of Dutch women

Trade, Technological Change and Gender Wage Inequality in Taiwan.

Session 3C: Women in Economics

Moderator: Roberta Robb, Brock University

Female Underrepresentation in University Economics Education

Helping Others, Helping Ourselves

A Cojoint Analysis for Identifying Gender Differences in Student Registration Decision Making

Session 3D: Building women's capacity to influence economic policy in the South: An interactive workshop

Session 3E: Collective strategies for work life improvement: Roundtable

Session 3F: Looking to the Past

Moderator: Robert Dimand, Brock University

Women and the Economics Profession: The Education of Miss Lucille Eaves

Gender and Economic Science

Power in the Family: Altruism in 19th Century Novels

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Session 4A: Microcredit and Development

Moderator: Zeynep Karman, Status of Women Canada

Credit and Extension Through Participatory Program Empowered Low-Income Women: A Gender Case Study in Indonesia

Markets, Planning, and Gender: A Feminist Critique of the "Social Capital" in Microcredit

Articulating Emerging "Modern" Identities: Credit Programs, Human Rights and Poor Women in Bangladesh

Mainstreaming or Malestreaming Gender? Women and Development Discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Session 4B: Policies to Raise Women's Incomes in the United States

Moderator: Mary King, Portland State University

Pay for Parenting?

Moving Beyond "Get a Job": What Real Welfare Reform Would Look Like

Raising the Minimum Wage and Living Wage Campaigns

Session 4C: Toward a Feminist Pedagogy in Economics: Roundtable

Session 4D: Time and Work

Moderator: Sheila Regehr, Status of Women Canada

Time Use, Social Capital and the Environment

Household Production and the Business Cycle

The Economic Crisis and its Impact on the Women in the Informal Sector

Session 4E: Caring for kids in a post-nuclear eraModerator: Myra Strober, Atlantic Philanthropic Services

Who's minding the kids? Sole versus joint custody

An Evaluation of the New Child-Support Guidelines: Good News and Bad News

It Takes a Village, But Which Village?

How Mothering Behaviors Change During Structural Transformation

Session 5A: Girl Children

Moderator: Iulie Aslaksen, Statistics Norway

Gender and Education in the Americas

Investing in Young Females in Developing countries

Why are Girls not in School? Some Observations from Recent Indian Experience

Session 5B: Gender Inequality in the Labor Market

Moderator: Semsa Ozar, Bogozici University

Gender Difference in the Canadian Economy with Some Comparisons to the United States

Changes in Gender Earnings Ratios over the Economic Expansion

Widening earnings differentials in the 1980s/90s: a feminist critique

Changes in Labor Demand, Poverty and Gender in the United States

Session 5C: Roundtable on Internationalizing/Globalizing Economic Content and Curriculum: Developing Strategy and Pedagogy

Moderator: Jean Shackelford, Bucknell University

Bringing Students to the World: Upstate New York Students in Denmark.

Difficulties and Possibilities of Cross Fertilization: Men, Women and Work

in a Mexican Context

Jennifer Cooper, UNAM

Moving Beyond "Add and Stir": Taking Advantage of Serendipity

Session 5D: Qualitative Methodologies and New Data Needs

Moderator: Gale Summerfield, University of Illinois

Induction and Inductive Proofs as Feminist Research Methods

Qualitative Methodologies and New Gender Data Needs

Work First? Women and Children Last?

Session 5E: Linking State and Federal Programs: A Discussion of Poverty, Welfare Reform and Federal Food Assistance Programs in the U.S.

Dinner, Echo Café, 211 Echo Drive

5:30 – Social Hour 6:30 – Dinner

Session 6A: Globalization: Just Another Capitalist Binge?

Session 6C: Gender and Distributive Justice

Moderator: Julie Nelson, Brandeis University

On Social Power and Well-being

On the Misfit between Economic Environments as the Informational Space and Concerns of Justice

What is gender inequality? Towards a framework for gender inequality research.

Session 6D: Not Covered: Health Insurance and Reproductive Choice

Session 6E: Feminist Ecological Economics

Moderator: Ellie Perkins, York University

Ecofeminist Politics and Motherhood Issues: Some Strategic (and Not-So-Strategic) Uses of Feminist Ecological Economics

Participatory Research Methods in Urban Sustainability

Diversity, Local Economies and Globalization'sLimits

A Study of Women Entrepreneurs in the Nonprofit Sector in India

Session 7A: Globalization and Trade

Moderator: John O’Manique, Carleton University

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What Women Should Do About Globalization: Rethinking Global Economic Strategies

Globalization, Gender and the State: A case study in the modernization of gender inequality in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Of Free(d) Trade, Comparative Advantage(s) and the Terms of Trade: Gender-Differentiated Impact of Trade in India

Session 7B: Women's well-being

Moderator: Nora Hammell, Status of Women Canada

A Feminist Perspective on Social Cohesion, Social Capital and the Inequalities and Health Literature

The Economic Costs of Domestic Violence in the Alberta Economy

Managing Health Care Reform in the US and Canada: Nurses’ Perspectives

Using health statistics as alternative economic indicators: An exploration

Session 7C: The History of Women in Economics

Moderator: Ronald G. Bodkin, University of Ottawa

Women in the Canon of Economics

The Contribution of Women to Development Economics

Early Women Economists on Family Design

Session 7D: Household Behavior and Female Labor Supply

Session 7E: Feminist Ecological Economics in Theory and Practice: A Dialogue among Activists and Academics

Session 8A: Globalization and Economic Restructuring

Moderator: Joanna Kerr, North South Institute

Women and the Restructuring of International Financial Institutions (the IMF/World Bank)

Economic Liberalisation and Macro- Economic Reforms in India

Hybridization of Production Systems, Gender Hierarchies and Development Thought in the Era of Regional-Globalization

Feminism and Cooperative Marketing: Strategies and tools towards women's economic independence

Session 8B: Workplaces

Gender-Based Occupational Segregation in the Turkish Banking Sector

Uncovering Processes of Occupational Feminisation in Developed Western Economies

Men's Work, Women's Work: Employment, Wages and Occupational Segregation in Bethlehem

Session 8C: Sex and bodies, race and gender in economic life

Moderator: Lisa Saunders, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Spouses and others: lesbians, gay men, and the Census

Lesbian and Gay couples in New Zealand: Similarities and differences from straight couples

Gender non-conformity, occupational choice and the marriage market

Session 8D: Beijing plus five: Implementing the Platform for Action

Session 8E: Public Policy

Between the US and Europe? Gender dimensions of recent labour market and welfare policies in the UK

Optimal Commodity Taxation and the Family

Sustainable Full Employment and Changing Gender Relations

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Carleton University, the International Development Research Centre (Canada), the MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), SIDA (Stockholm), and Status of Women Canada.