8th ESPAnet Conference 2010Social Policy and the Global Crisis:
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4. Gender Equity and Social Policy
Historical Institutionalism and Gendering Social Policy
During the last two decades much has been written about the need to "genderize" welfare regimes and during the same period much has also been written about the importance of historical developments and "path dependency" in influencing current welfare policies and maintaining differences in regional cultures of care; yet, despite the great strides that have been accomplished in integrating gender into welfare research and in developing sophisticated historical-institutional analyses, very little has been written about the influence of historical institutional developments on the manner in which welfare policies influence gender roles. This stream encourages papers that synthesize feminist and historical-institutional approaches in analyzing welfare policies in their impact on transformation or reproduction of gender relations and gender regimes.
Even though most feminist literature and feminist movement claims on gender and welfare has focused on childcare and labor market policies, we would also welcome papers on other areas of care policies that influence and are influenced by cultures of care, such as healthcare policies and elderly care policies. Similar to childcare and labor market policies, these policies also have great impact on gender relations and they are similarly highly influenced by past developments. Of course, other factors, such as the global financial crisis and the previous trend toward "retrenchment" might also influence these policies, but little research has been done so far on how previous historical-institutional developments have interacted with these recent events.
Conveners:
| Steven Saxonberg | Hana Haskova | |
| Department of Social Policy and Social Work Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University Jostova 10, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic E-mail: sax@post.utfors.se phone: +46-73 619 23 38 |
Department of Gender and Sociology Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Jilska 1, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic E-mail: hana.haskova@soc.cas.cz phone : +420 2 22 22 09 24 |
Friday, 11:30-13:30 Room 02, Session 4./A
Presentations
1. Birgit Pfau-Effinger: Family policies and the departure from the male breadwinner family model – different development paths in European welfare states [abstract] [paper]
2. Walter Korpi, Tommy Ferrarini, Stefan Englund: Women’s conditions and opportunities under different types of family policies in western countries: Gender inequalities re-examined [abstract] [paper]
3. Heili Einasto, Patricia Kennedy: Maternity Legislation in Estonia and Ireland: a critical juncture? [abstract] [paper]
4. Zsuzsa Blaskó: How Long to be a Stay-at-Home Mother? – Preferences and attitudes of mothers with young children in Hungary [abstract] [paper]
Contributed papers:
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Friday, 14:30-16:30 Room 02, Session 4./B
Presentations
1. Eva Fodor: What explains the gender gap in poverty?: A Comparison of Eastern and Western European EU countries [abstract] [paper]
2. Anne Lise Ellingsæter, Lilja Mosesdottir, Ruth Emerek, Anita Hataaja, Anita Nyberg: Unwrapping the Nordic parental leave package [abstract] [paper]
3. Blanka Plasova, Hana Marikova: The Czech pathway to home-based elder care model. Discussion of gender consequences. [abstract] [paper]
Contributed papers:
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Friday, 17:00-19:00 Room 02, Session 4./C
Presentations
1. Dorota Szelewa: Children, Mothers and Doctors – A History of Childcare Services in Poland before the Second World War [abstract] [paper]
2. Anette Borchorst, Lenita Freidenvall: Gendering Institutional Analysis: Understanding Parental Leave Reforms in Denmark and Sweden [abstract] [paper]
3. Eszter Varsa: Children in Moral Danger due to their Mothers’ Employment: The Case of State Care in Early State Socialist Hungary [abstract] [paper]
Contributed papers:
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Important dates
17 November 2009 = Call for stream convenors
18 December 2009 = Deadline for stream convenors
25 January 2010 = Call for abstracts
29 March 2010 = Deadline for abstract submission
3 May 2010 = Registration starts
6 June 2010 = Reduced fee application deadline
21 June 2010 24:00 (CET) = Early bird registration deadline
13 August 2010 24:00 (CET) - Deadline for submission of papers
16 August 2010 - Deadline for Registrations and payments
Registration fee is 160 Euros for early birds, 210 Euros for late birds. Central and Eastern European PhD students and professionals can apply for a reduced fee of 60 Euros at info@espanet2010.net until 6th June.
Registration opens on the 3rd May, early bird registration closes on the 21th June at 24:00 (CET).
Theme of the Conference
The theme of ESPAnet’s 2010 Annual Conference is the social consequences of the global financial crisis and its differential impact across Europe. The main questions for consideration include:
How is the crisis affecting already existing inequalities? How are different social classes and groups, especially those in poverty, affected by the crisis? What are the adaptable capacities of the different “worlds of welfare”? Does the intensifying social vulnerability lead to the re-structuring of the programs to provide more security? How far have new programs been developed, and how far have new questions of social policy and welfare been opened up by the crisis?
We would like to broaden the horizon of social policy analysis and see global environmental concerns taken into account: How far are responses to the crisis re-thinking the role of the national and international/global state and the role of the European Union in creating economically, socially and environmentally sustainable societies?