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Eighth International Women's Policy Research Conference 2005

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2005 Conference Proceedings

The Eighth International Women's Policy Research Conference, When Women Gain, So Does the World, was a huge success!  The event brought together more than 700 policymakers, advocates, researchers, and practitioners from the academic, labor, corporate, government, non-profit and media worlds to discuss new research findings, current trends, and policy strategies relating to women's lives in the United States and throughout the world. More than 60 sessions and over 200 presenters addressed a range of issues related to women's economic, political, health, and social status. Over 38 U.S. States and 32 countries were represented, and participants widely praised the conference content.

The papers included in the 2005 Conference Proceedings are broken down in the following topic areas:

The documents listed below are in PDF format. The free Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for viewing and printing materials. You may also order a CD ROM with the complete collection of presented papers.

 
Papers will continue to be posted as they become available.

 
Business, Employment, Education & the Economy
Marcia Bok “How Labor Supply and Demand Affect Education and Vocational Training for Low-Income Women in the U.S.”
Jelena Smiljanic “Obstacles Women Face in Trying to Advance at Work in Serbia”
Bonnie Watt-Malcolm “Employers and Canada’s Policy Initiatives to Promote Women in Skilled Trades”
Lorraine Cohen “Union Women Build Bridges: Welfare, Workfare, and Access to Higher Education in New York City”
Paloma Villota “Approach from a Gender Perspective Regarding the Impact of Income Tax on Wage-Earning Women in Spain”
Charlotte Fishman "Make Room at the Top: Getting to the Heart of Women's Exclusion from Science and the Professions"
Barbara Moseley Davis Make Room at the Top: Getting to the Heart of Women’s Exclusion from Science & the Professions - A Real World Look
JoAnne Preston Delaying a Life: The Consequences of Career Deferment for the Radcliffe Class of 1950
Anneliese M. Dickman Diversity and Tomorrow’s Profits: Women in Corporate Leadership
Phyllis Raabe “'Woman-Friendly' Policies in the United States: Inequalities among U.S. States”

Manish Thapa		 Natural Resource Management From Gender Perspectives
Saranna Thornton Stopping the Tenure Clock: Implementation and Utilization in Canadian and U.S. Economics Departments
Rosella Melanson Cost of the Current Pay Gap
Family, Culture & Population
Patricia Boling “If US Family Policies Were a Speedo: Modest, Skimpy or Invisible?”
Jill Borak "Women Migrant Workers: Embracing Empowerment Over Victimization"
Elizabeth Clifford, Reena Tandon and Susan Pearce “Two Steps Forward? Reinventing US Immigration Policy for Women”
Kathleen Cloud The Inter-Generational Dependency Dilemma:
Sex, Gender and Support for the Old
Judith Finer-Freedman The Subtle Sabotage of Work/Life Policies
Xinying Hu What Makes Them So Upset? Chinese Immigrant Women in Vancouver Labour Market
Jillynn Stevens Grandparents as Primary Caregivers: Ensuring Needed Supports and Services
   
Health, Human Security & Women's Rights
Clair Kaplan “Disabled Women and Gynecologic Care: Activism and Policy Innovation from Connecticut”
Elizabeth Kendall and Catherine Marshall “Sharing the Call: Women as Partners in Research, Action, and Access for Indigenous Women with Chronic Illness and Disability”
Yu-Ying Kuo and Yi Thun Hsu “Implementation Evaluation on Foreign Brides' Literacy Education in Taipei”
Rebecca Miller “Managing Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion: An Investigation into Organisational Culture and Its Impacts on International Cooperation”
Samantha Majic “LIVE! NUDE! … Organized Workers? Examining the Organization of Sex Workers in Las Vegas, Nevada”
Della Bahan and Puja Batra “Seeking Justice for Trafficked Domestic Workers in American Courts”
Johanna Foster “Bringing College Back to Prison: The State of Higher Education Programs for Incarcerated Women in the U.S.”

Emily M. Murase		 CEDAW Implementation Locally: Lessons from San Francisco
Eden Savino “Separate and Unequal? A Look at Women, Men, and Migrantinnen at Almost 20 Years of German 'Whore Congresses'”
Poverty & Income Security
Shirley P. Burggraf Pension Reform in Industrial Countries: If your Mama isn’t Happy, Nobody will be Happy
Amy Matsui Spousal Rights in Individual Accounts: Improving Women’s Retirement Security
Natalia Zakharova The National Mechanisms, Women’s Movement and Women Political Participation 10 Years After Beijing: How to Build Alliances
Marya Dantzer Rosenthal “Off the Ledger: The Dynamic Relationship between Low-Income Women’s Informal Income and U.S. Welfare and Wage Regimes”
Christina Smith FitzPatrick The Social Security Minimum Benefit: Options for Reform
Joan Combs Durso US Women veterans: What can we know about their socioeconomic status from public data sets?
Women's Leadership, Civic Engagement, & Social Change
Terry Kendrick Women Winning the West: From Voter Mobilization to a Progressive Policy Agenda
Tanya Melich Winning Pro-Choice Women for Bush
Lynda Laughlin & Danielle Farrie Gender and Neighborhood Satisfaction
Taylor Hatcher, Allison Mitchell, Erin Mohan A Case Study of the Younger Women’s Task Force
Marcia E. Greenberg The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid
Stephanie A. Parker Mentoring Leaders for a Lifetime™
Growing the Ferocious Voice of Leadership in Young Women with Disabilities and Other Significant Life Challenges through Leadership Development and Mentoring
Pattsi Petrie Women in the Planning Profession
Making the Built Environment Better
Lauren Rosewarne Gender Portrayal Guidelines: An Evaluation of Self-Regulation Policies Regarding Representations of Women
Erin Currier Women and Conflict Resolution: Feminism, Peace-Building, and Politics in the European
Union
Kimberly Hall Communication, Culture, Policy, and Working Women’s Access to Postsecondary Education
Samira A. Ahmed The Impasse of Women’s Rights and Social Change in Sudan
Liesl Haas “Feminist Policy Making in Latin America”
Sally Kenney “Case Studies on Women and Public Policy”
Medha Nanivadekar “Feminist Fundamentalism over Women’s Reservation Bill: Lessons from the Quota Debate in India”
Ami Lynch “Hate Crime as a Tool of the Gender Border Patrol: The Importance of Gender as a Protected Category”
Dorothy Igunbor “Towards Effective Women's Leadership in a Globalized World”
Elizabeth Esterchild and Jen King “The Race-Ethnic and Gender Composition of State Legislatures: How Does it Happen and Why Does It Matter?”
Diane Grzyb-Soper “The Effects of Marriage on Female Political Orientation and Participation”
Fiona Mackay “The Impact of Devolution on Women’s Citizenship in Scotland”
Emily Murase CEDAW Implementation Locally: Lessons from San Francisco
 
 
  
 

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