2007 IAFFE Conference on Feminist Economics |
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Summary of All Sessions |
46 sessions, 119 papers |
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2007 IAFFE Conference on Feminist Economics |
Complete List of All Sessions |
Session 1: Sex Work |
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| Session Chair: Linda Lucas, University of South Florida |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 11:30 - 12:30 |
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| Sex Workers and Access to Microfinance |
| By Nasheeba Selim, BRAC |
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| As bad as it gets: well being deprivation of sexually exploited trafficked women |
| By M.L. Di Tommaso and I. Shima, University of Turin, S. Strom, University of Turin and University of Oslo, and F. Bettio, University of Siena |
Session 2: Feminist Thought |
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| Session Chair: Diana Strassman, Rice University |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 11:30 - 12:30 |
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| Some new faces at the Catwalk |
| By Edith Kuiper, Amsterdam School of Economics |
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| Feminist Perspectives on the Royal Thai “Sufficiency Economy” Model |
| By Juliana Essen, Soka University of America |
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| Women, Justice and Law |
| By Rajeshree Dutta Kumar, Institute of Social Studies Trust |
Session 3: Access to Resources: Education, Land |
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| Session Chair: Jean Franco, Women and Gender Institute |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 11:30 - 12:30 |
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| Land Rights and Women in Orissa |
| By Padmaja Mishra, Utkal University. |
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| ICT for improving scientific research activities of women in Bangladesh |
| By Lutfor Rahman, Association for Advancement of Information Technology |
Session 4: Migrant Women and their Households |
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| Session Chair: monica das, Delhi University |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 11:30 - 12:30 |
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| ‘The feminisation of migration and the migration-development nexus: en-gendering the development burden’ |
| By Stuart Rosewarne, University of Sydney |
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| Mexican Immigrant Women in an Urban, U.S. Labor Market |
| By Mary C. King, Portland State University |
Session 5: Integrating Macroeconomic Strategies and Human Rights, A case study US and Mexico |
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| Session Chair: Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 11:30 - 12:30 |
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| Integrating Macroeconomic Strategies and Economic and Social Rights |
| By Radhika Balakrishnan, Marymount Manhattan College |
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| Human rights and gender-equitable economic policies: a framework for Analysis |
| By Diane Elson, University of Essex |
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| Taxation and ES rights in Mexico |
| By Lourdes Colinas, ECLAC - UN |
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| Realizing Economic and Social Rights: Public Expenditure in Mexico from a Gender Perspective |
| By Veronica Zebadua, Fundar |
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| Trade MES and human rights |
| By Alberto Serdan-Rosales, Fundar |
Session 6: Aging and Elder Care |
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| Session Chair: Agneta Stark, |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 11:30 - 12:30 |
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| Government subsidies for aged and disabled care: which rationales do the public prioritise? |
| By Gabrielle Meagher, University of Sydney |
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| Informal care and economic disadvantage: Two measures. |
| By Trish Hill, Cathy Thomson and Megan Griffiths, University of New South Wales and Michael Bittman, University of New England |
Session 7: Time, Money, Power |
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| Session Chair: Semsa Ozar, Bogazici University |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| Gender and Labor Time Allocation of Chinese Rural Households in Low Income Regions |
| By Heng Wang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
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| The female heads of households in urban poor communities of Bangladesh: victims of inequality and gender discrimination |
| By Tanzima Zohra Habib and Kalyani Mehta, National University of Singapore |
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| Financial security and the dynamics of power within households |
| By Jerome De Henau and Susan Himmelweit, The Open University |
Session 8: Gender Earnings Inequality |
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| Session Chair: Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 1:30 |
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| Institutional and Social Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: Who Cares determines Who is in the Labor Force and Who is not |
| By Ipek Ilkkaracan and Sevil Acar, Istanbul Technical University and Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR) Turkey |
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| Economic Transition and Gender Differentials in Wages and Productivity: |
| By Xiao-yuan Dong, University of Winnipeg and Liqin Zhang, China Agricultural University |
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| The Role of Firm Effects in the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from China |
| By Liying Li, Henan University of Finance and Economics and Xiaoyuan Dong, University of Winnipeg |
Session 9: Care-giving Support |
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| Session Chair: Charlotte Koren, Norwegian Social Research |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| Women, Work and Care: Playing the Australian Childcare Market - Who Wins? |
| By Elizabeth Hill, University of Sydney |
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| Looking Beyond the Surface: An In-Depth Review of Parental Benefits |
| By Kirstin Lund, Author and Michelle Harris Genge, Women's Network PEI |
Session 10: The Impact of Migration in China |
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| Session Chair: Barbara Hopkins, Wright State University |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| The Effect of Migration on Children's Educational Performance in Rural Children in Rural China |
| By Xinxin Chen, Zhejiang Gongshang University,Qiuqiong Huang, University of Minnesota, Scott Rozelle, Stanford University and Liuxiu Zhang,Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Discussant: Maria Floro, American University |
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| The Impact of Migration on Rural Women’s Empowerment in Peri-urban areas in China |
| By Wei-song Mu, Cai-xia Li and Feng-qin Liu, China Agricultural University |
| Discussant: Maria Floro, American University |
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| Family Migration Decisions: Evidence from Rural China |
| By Ni Yuan, China Youth University for Political Sciences and Yaohui Zhao, Beijing University |
| Discussant: Maria Floro, American University |
Session 11: Gender, Aid and Trade |
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| Session Chair: Marina Durano, UN Development Fund for Women |
| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| Financing for Gender Equality in the Context of New Aid Modalities |
| By Gita Sen and Marina Durano, UNIFEM |
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| Gender Issue in Aid-for-Trade |
| By Josefa Francisco, Miriam College and Marina Durano, UNIFEM |
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| Advancing Gender Equality in Trade: Gender, Trade and Human Development in Asia-Pacific |
| By Marina Durano, UNIFEM and Yumiko Yamamoto and Bryn Gay, UNDP |
Session 12: This is the Life: Feminist Economists in Women's Studies |
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| Date: June 29, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| This is the Life: Economists Working in Women's Studies |
| By Linda E. Lucas, University of South Florida Shakuntala Narasimhan, Bengalore, India Diana Strassmann, Rice University |
Session 13: Resisting Global Capitalism: Lessons fromThailand |
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| Session Chair: Chanida Bamford, Focus on the Global South |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 2:00 - 3:30 |
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| Resisting Global Capitalism: Lessons fromThailand |
| By Juliana Essen, Soka University of America Walaitat Worakul Kanoksak Kaewthep |
Session 14: Labour Market and Social Policy |
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| Session Chair: Marlene Kim, University of Massachusetts Boston |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Understanding the Effects of Industrial Regulation in Australia: A Case Study of Minimum Wage Workers in Western Australia |
| By Alison Preston and Therese Jefferson, Curtin University of Technology |
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| Employer- support for volunteer activities and time constraints in Canada: a gender perspective |
| By Fiona MacPhail and Paul Bowles, University of Northern British Columbia |
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| Adapting to the two-income family |
| By Charlotte Koren, Norwegian Social Research |
Session 15: Migration, Remittances and Development |
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| Session Chair: Ulla Grapard, |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Mexican Women and Money in California |
| By Magdalena Villarreal, CIESAS Occidente |
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| Migration, Gender and Development: A Preliminary Assessment of the Philippines' Exports of Female Migrant Workers to Taiwan |
| By Chin-Ming Lin, Tamkang University |
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| Gender, age and the household economy. Male migration and remittance distribution in Guanajuato, Mexico |
| By Lorena Cortés-Espinoza, Verónica Vázque-García and Emma Zapata-Martelo, Colegio de Postgraduados |
Session 16: Paid and Unpaid Care Work |
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| Session Chair: Sandra Tam, University of Toronto |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Paid Enough? Nurses wages in Australian residential aged care facilities |
| By Valerie Adams, University of South Australia |
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| Near and generous? Gift propensity and chosen emotional distance |
| By Kari H Eika, University of Oslo |
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| Women Who Have No Economic Value: Reorganizing Thai Unpaid Female Labor |
| By Yada Praparpun, Ramkhamhaeng University |
Session 17: Rethinking … |
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| Session Chair: Edith Kuiper, University of Amsterdam |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 11:30 |
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| Ecofeminism and the Call for Food Sovereignty: Global Justice or Economic Populism? |
| By Regina Cochrane, University of Calgary |
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| Embedding Gender in Consumer Culture |
| By Barbara E. Hopkins, Wright State University |
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| What does Hurricane Katrina have to do with the Subic rape case? |
| By Bronwyn Winter, University of Sydney |
Session 18: Time Use and Public Policy |
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| Session Chair: Maria Floro, American University |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Gender, Unemployment and Underemployment in South Africa Reexamined: What Time Use Data Reveal. |
| By Maria Floro, American University and Imraan Valodia, University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| Discussant: Diane Elson, University of Essex |
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| What can we learn about well-being of informal sector workers from time use data? Evidence from Thailand |
| By Anant Pichetpongsa, Siam City Bank and Maria S. Floro, American University |
| Discussant: Margarita Guerrero, UN ESCAP |
Session 19: Gender Dimensions of IPRs: The WTO's TRIPS Agreement |
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| Session Chair: Yumiko Yamamoto, UNDP Regional Centre in Colombo |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Trade and Intellectual Property Protection of Indigenous Cultural Resources in Asia-Pacific |
| By Bryn Gay, UNDP |
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| Gender Dimensions of IP, and Traditional Medicinal Knowledge |
| By Heather Gibb, The North-South Institute |
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| TRIPS and Gendered Obstacles for Public Health |
| By Bryn Gay and Yumiko Yamamoto, UNDP |
Session 20: Promoting Feminist Economics in the Philippine Setting |
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| Session Chair: Josefa Francisco, Miriam College |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 12:30 |
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| "Exploring Feminist Economic Alternatives for Development: Making a Case for the Local Economy" |
| By Jeanne Frances Illo, Miriam College |
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| “Feminist Economics in the Teaching of Economics” |
| By Ms. Rosena Sanchez, Ateneo de Davao University |
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| Feminist Economics in Support of Advocacy on Gender and Trade |
| By Dr. Rosalinda Pineda Ofreneo, University of the Philippines |
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| The State of Gender Statistics in the Philippines for Feminist Economics |
| By Maria Teresa D. Pascual, Institute for Popular Democracy |
Session 21: Gender, Power and Politics |
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| Session Chair: Ranjula Bali Swain, Uppsala University |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| Empowering women in the Thar Desert, India |
| By Shashi Tyagi, GRAVIS |
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| Can Reservation in Political Participation Empower Women and Influence Social and Economic Development at the Local Level? A Case Study of Northern India |
| By Kavita Chakravarty, Maharshi Dayananad University and Pareena G. Lawrence, University of Minnesota, Morris |
Session 22: Violence and Rights |
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| Session Chair: Maria Laura di Tommaso, |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| Casing the “Political Will” and National Mechanisms of Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan for Preventing Trafficking in Human Beings |
| By Nadira Myrzalieva |
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| Women’s are Difficult Circumstance – Cultural Dimension and Gender Insecurity |
| By Ms.Bandita Thapa, Women Foundation Nepal |
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| Women’s Property Rights, HIV/AIDS, and Domestic Violence |
| By Hema Swaminathan, Aslihan Kes, Kimberly Ashburn and Nata Duvvury, International Center for Research on Women; Cherryl Walker and Michael Aliber, Human Sciences Research Council; Margaret Rugadya and Herbert Kamusiime, Associates for Development |
Session 23: Occupational Segregation |
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| Session Chair: Fiona MacPhail, University of Northern British Columbia |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 11:30 |
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| Gender Discrimination in the Public Service in Uganda |
| By Irene van Staveren, ISS |
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| Occupational segregation in New Zealand: Recent trends and implications |
| By Nicky Lynch, Ministry of Women's Affairs, New Zealand |
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| The Employers as Source of Sex Segregation in the Workplace: The Case of Spain |
| By Pilar de-Luis, Ana Garrido, Pilar Urquizu and Silvia Vicente,Universidad de Zaragoza |
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| Asian Export Manufacturing and Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Cross-National Analysis. |
| By Saud A. Choudhry, Trent University |
Session 24: Explaining Migration in Asia |
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| Session Chair: Barbara Hopkins, Wright State University |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| The Export of Filipino Nurses and Its Gendered Dimensions |
| By Jean Encinas-Franco, Miriam College |
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| Burmese Women’s Migratory Labor Force Participation |
| By Min Min Htwe Nge, Burma Labor Watch |
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| Globalisation, Gender and Labour mobility: A Case study of Burmese women workers in Thailand's border factories |
| By Ruth Pearson, University of Leeds and Kyoko Kusakabe, Asian Institute of Technology |
Session 25: Globalization, and its impacts |
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| Session Chair: NIRMALA VELAN, PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| The Economic Mal-Development of Thailand and Cambodia: Built on the Backs of Women |
| By Peter F Bell, State University of New York, Purchase |
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| Globalisation and its impact on Nepalese Women |
| By Adhikari Mona Shrestha, South Asia Watch on Trade Economics and Environment |
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| Globalization and the Indonesian Women Home-workers: Free Trade and response |
| By Hesti R Wijaya and Cecilia Susiloretno, Brawijaya University and Homenet Indonesia |
Session 26: Insights from Time-Use Studies |
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| Session Chair: Gabrielle Meagher, University of Sydney |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| Within household inequalities and time use. |
| By Trish Hill, University of New South Wales |
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| The Time Use of New Mothers – What Do We Know and Does it Matter? |
| By Julie P Smith, Australian National University and Lyn Craig, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales |
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| When gender matters more than economy and culture: time allocation in developed societies |
| By Lina Gálvez, Paula Rodríguez and Monica Domínguez, University Pablo de Olavide |
Session 27: Roundtable on Writing and Submitting Papers to Journals |
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| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| Roundtable on Writing and Submitting Papers to Journals |
| By Diana Strassmann, Rice University Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College Maria Floro, American University |
Session 28: Gender and Migration Country Studies |
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| Session Chair: Heather Gibb, The North-South Institute |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| The State of Female Migration Flow in International Labour Market: How is Bangladesh Doing? |
| By AKM Ahsan Ullah, City University of Hong Kong |
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| Relationship between Employment and Migration of Women in Mongolia |
| By Ulziibayar Vangansuren, Academy of Management |
Session 29: Work-Family |
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| Session Chair: Trish Hill, University of New South Wales |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| Work-family balance amongst self-employed mothers: Recent Australian evidence |
| By Natasha Cortis, University of New South Wales |
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| Work flexibility or precariousness? The debate on social reproduction |
| By Rosalba Todaro, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer |
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| The Wage Costs of Motherhood: Which Mothers are Better Off and Why |
| By Anton Nivorozhkin, Institute for Employment Research |
Session 30: Maternal and Reproductive Health |
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| Session Chair: Shirley Johnson-Lans, Vassar College |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| Dying to Have a Baby: Economics and Maternal Mortality |
| By Linda E. Lucas, University of South Florida |
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| The State of Reproductive Health Care in India |
| By Amlan Majumder, Dinhata College |
Session 31: Trade Liberalization |
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| Session Chair: Kyoko Kusakabe, Asian Institute of Technology |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| Engendering Trade Liberalisation: Rural Women and the Rice Sector in Viet Nam |
| By Arpaporn Sumrit, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge |
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| Gender Issues in International Trade in the Asia-Pacific: An Overview |
| By Marina Durano, UNIFEM and Josefa Francisco, Miriam College |
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| Gender, Macro Economic Policy Making and Poverty in Mauritius |
| By Sheila Bunwaree,University of Mauritius |
Session 32: Rethinking Gender Roles |
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| Session Chair: Peter Bell, State University of New York @ Purchase |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| Socioeconomic Changes in a Rural Village in Thailand 1979-2007 |
| By Nancy Eberhardt and Steve Cohn, Knox College |
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| WOMEN’S PROPERTY IN MONGOLIAN PASTORAL SOCIETY: VALUE OF SILVER GOODS IN RURAL MONGOLIA |
| By Mari Kazato, Kyoto University |
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| Globalizing values and local contents: gender discrepancies in labour market expectations in Jakarta and Makassar, Indonesia |
| By Ariane J. Utomo, Australian National University |
Session 33: Marriage and Markets |
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| Session Chair: Mary King, Portland State University |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| To Elope or Not to Elope?: Anthropological Analysis on Women as Makers of Dowry and Global Commodities |
| By Urara Tamura, Kyoto University |
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| Sexuality and Bane of Bigamy in India |
| By Monica Das, Delhi University |
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| Using daughters to escape poverty - the "export trade" in brides |
| By Sakuntala Narasimhan |
Session 34: Informal Work and Entrepreneurship |
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| Session Chair: Elizabeth Hill, University of Sydney |
| Date: June 30, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| Work of Women |
| By Melda Yaman Öztürk, 19 Mayıs University and Nuray Ergüneş, Maltepe University |
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| Women's Roles in the Moroccan Nonformal Economy |
| By Mohamed Malchouch, King Abdul-Aziz Foundation |
Session 35: Well-Being of Mothers and Children |
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| Session Chair: Sakuntala Narasimhan, Journalist-author |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Evaluation of childcare programs using time use analysis of a Japanese panel survey |
| By Reina Ichii, Ochanomizu University |
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| Women's role in agriculture and its effect on child health in rural Malawi: "Food security effect" and "Bargaining effect" |
| By Mika Ueyama Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Hitotsubashi University |
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| Effects of Literacy on the Well-being of Women and Girls in Villages |
| By Shirley Johnson-Lans, Vassar College |
Session 36: Using Film to Study Sex Work |
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| Session Chair: Raj Mankad, IAFFE |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 12:30 |
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| Art as a Social and Economic Change Agent |
| By Edith Regier, Crossing Communities Art Project, Cathy Fillmore, University of Winnipeg and Pat Aylesworth, Crossing Communities |
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| Showing of Film "Hope in Heaven" on Sex Tourism in SE Asia |
| By Meredith Ralston, Mount Saint Vincent University |
Session 37: Political Participation and Empowerment |
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| Session Chair: Michelle Harris Genge, Women's Network PEI |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Gender and Poverty: Evidence from Haryana – A Northern State of India |
| By Kavita Chakravarty, Maharshi Dayanand University |
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| Can Microfinance Empower Women? |
| By Ranjula Bali Swain, Uppsala University |
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| Voting Protocol and Participation of Women in China’s Village Elections |
| By Xiaopeng Pang, Renmin University of China and Scott Rozelle, Stanford University |
Session 38: Applying Feminist Analysis |
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| Session Chair: Cheryl Doss, Yale University |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Measuring economic empowerment of women: a case of the Sapporo women’s workers collectives in Japan |
| By Takayoshi Kusago, Osaka University |
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| Provisioning Responsibilities: Connecting Work to Relationships |
| By Sheila M Neysmith, University of Toronto, Marge Reitsma-Street, University of Victoria, Stephanie Baker-Collins, York University, Elaine Porter, Laurentian University and Sandra Tam, University of Toronto |
Session 39: Union Struggles, Workers Rights |
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| Session Chair: Rosalba Todaro, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Women in trade unions and ethnic identity politics |
| By Janaka Biyanwila, University of Western Australia |
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| Whatever Happened To The Demand For Women’s Working Rights? |
| By Susan H. Gensemer, Syracuse University |
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| Gender Discrimination in Boston Construction Trade Unions |
| By Marlene Kim, University of Massachusetts Boston and Casey Smith |
Session 40: Gender Issues in Bangladesh |
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| Session Chair: Farida Khan, University of Wisconsin - Parkside |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| When the Men Migrate: Challenges and Strategies of Women in Extreme Poor Migrant Households in Bangladesh |
| By Mehnaz Rabbani, BRAC |
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| Are daughters a better investment : Gender differences in the impact of children’s education on the health of elderly parents in rural Bangladesh |
| By Omar Rahman, Rubayat Khan and Abul Kalam Azad, Independent University |
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| NGOs – The Preferred Employer for Working Women in Bangladesh? |
| By Farida Khan, University of Wisconsin-Parkside |
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| How equitable is access to and use of reproductive health care? |
| By Simeen Mahmud, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies |
Session 41: Biographies: Women in the Developing World |
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| Session Chair: Amanda Plimpton, |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| Biographies: Women in the Developing World |
| By Alecia Peacock, Lianne Stewart, Stacey Owiti, Amanda Plimpton, Yuliana Ramirez, Undergraduate Students, University of South Florida |
Session 42: Gender and Trade: Theory and Evidence |
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| Session Chair: Irene van Staveren, ISS |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| Is White the New Blue |
| By Ebru Kongar, Dickinson College and Mark Price, Keystone Research Center |
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| Mainstream, Heterodox and Feminist Trade Theory |
| By Diane Elson, University of Essex, Caren Grown, American University and Nilufer Cagatay, University of Utah |
| Discussant: Ebru Kongar, |
Session 43: How do Households Deal with Risk and Vulnerability? |
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| Session Chair: Jeanne Frances Illo, Miriam College |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| Determinants of Household Debt Servicing: The Case of Urban Low-income Households in Ecuador |
| By John Messier, University of Maine Farmington |
| Discussant: Marina Durano, UN Development Fund for Women |
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| Risk, Vulnerability and Gender: Evidence from Philippines and Thailand |
| By Maria Floro American University |
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| Risk Perceptions within Pastoralist Households in Africa |
| By Cheryl Doss, Yale University |
Session 44: Gender and Development in India |
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| Session Chair: Radhika Balakrishnan, Marymount Manhattan College |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| Economic Discrimination of Women in Indian Labor Market |
| By L.C.Mallaiah, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Central University |
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| Gender Impacts of Trade Liberalization in India |
| By V. Nirmala, Pondicherry University |
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| Through The Magnifying Glass: Women’s Work And Labour Force Participation In Urban Delhi, India |
| By Shrayana Bhattacharya Ratna M Sudarshan Institute of Social Studies Trust |
Session 45: Family Labour Supply Decisions |
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| Session Chair: Xiao-yuan Dong, University of Winnipeg |
| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| Women, getting older and caring |
| By Suzanne Hodgkin, La Trobe University |
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| Marriage and work: an analysis for French couples in the last decade |
| By Elena Stancanelli, CNRS |
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| Up to you? Choice and preferences in Australian work/family research |
| By Mary Leahy, Victoria University |
Session 46: Literature, Art and Economics |
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| Date: July 1, 2007 |
| Time: 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| The Desire for Dead Body and Thai National Imaginary: Thai Female Landscape from the Morgue |
| By Pandit Chanrochanakit, Ramkhamhaeng University |
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| Gender and Economic Development in Sonallah Ibrahim’s Novel Zaat |
| By Raj Mankad, Rice University |
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