Gender and economics

SUMMER SCHOOL

Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building Program on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics

July 21, 2011 -

We are pleased to announce the first European regional program on knowledge networking and capacity building on gender, macroeconomics and international economics. Economists from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan are welcome to apply. The summer school will take place in Istanbul on 9-17 October, 2011. The deadline for completed applications is August 15, 2011.

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Women's Voices, Women's Choices

Articels, interviews

Women’s Voices, Women’s Choices

Heinrich-Böll-Foundation presents a set of articles about the current problems women from the Central and Eastern Europe are facing nowadays. The web-dossier “Women’s Voices. Women’s Choices” was prepared on the 100. anniversary of the International Women’s Day. more»

Gender and Polish EU Presidency

Conference

Time for Gender Equality. The Priorities of the Polish EU Presidency Regarding Gender Equality and Anti-discriminatory Policies

Will the agenda of the Polish EU Presidency address gender equality priorities? What will be the leading issues regarding gender equality and anti-discriminatory policies? For the discussion on the priorities and agenda of the Polish Presidency in the Council of the European Union with regard to the gender equality and anti-discriminatory policies we invited representatives of the Polish government and non-government organizations. more»

Women and Transformation

PUBLICATION

Women in Times of Change, 1989-2009

 - The twentieth anniversary of the 1989 breakthrough is an occasion for summaries. In spite of the twenty years of democratic transformation, women did not manage to reduce their distance from men enough for their voice to be clearly heard in public debate. more»

Gender in the European Union

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Gender Issues

Publication

Gender Issues 2009: Gender Equality Discourse in Times of Transformation, 1989-2009: the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine

The year 2009, which is drawing to an end, brought about many recaps and analyses as we celebrated the twentieth anniversary of democratic changes in the old Eastern Bloc. Despite many new studies dealing with the successes and failures of the transformation, an evaluation of the past two decades from the perspective of gender equality was still missing. Looking at the changes initiated in 1989, such as the introduction of market economy and the adoption of neoliberal ideology as the foundation of the new political, economic and social system, it is important to see how they influenced the situation of men and women. more»
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Religion, politics and gender

Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Poland

The prestige and the influence of the Polish Church is closely linked to the role it played historically when Poland was occupied by foreign countries throughout the 19th century. It then appeared as the only centre of stability and resistance against the invaders, giving force to the equation: ‘Polish = Catholic’. Jacqueline Heinen and Stephane Portet more»

The Quagmire Effect. On the Special Role of the Catholic Church in Poland

 - The sentence ¬Poland is a Catholic country is not a statement of fact but a sort of a spell, a self-fulfilling prophesy sanctioning existing power relations. The conviction that ¬Poland is a Catholic country is like a quagmire or swamp, sucking us all in, Catholic or not. The more we sink in it… the more we sink. Agnieszka Graff more»

Gender Mainstreaming

Publication Gender Mainstreaming

PUBLICATION/DEBATE

Gender mainstreaming. How to effectively utilise its political potential?

February 6, 2009 - For some, gender mainstreaming, the basis of the EU’s gender equality policy, has been the most effective tool for its implementation. Others indicate that its main weakness is the fact that it does not allow for radical critique of the existing relations of power. Usually, an important barrier is the lack of political will, making implementation of gender equality policies purely declarative. Should gender mainstreaming really be put to the side, since it lost its political potential for change? The authors of the latest publication by the Warsaw Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation attempt to answer this question. Some of them took part in the debate promoting the Polish version of the publication, which was held on 3rd October 2008 in Warsaw. more»

Family policy

Debate

Family Policy in Europe. An Efficient Tool of Gender Equality or Rescue in front of Demographic Crisis?

The focus of the September 20, 2007, conference, organized by the Warsaw Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Network of East-West Women/NEWW-Polska, was a debate on different models of modern family policy in the EU states. The starting point of the discussion was a presentation of changes to family models resulting from the transformation of gender roles and the activities of emancipatory movements. more»
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