Referentinnen 20. Juni
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Isabella BAKKER
Isabella Bakker is a Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her most recent books are: Where are the Women? Gender Equity, Budgets and Canadian Policy Making (with Janine Brodie, 2008 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) and Beyond States and Markets: The Challenges of Social Reproduction (with Rachel Silvey, 2008 Routledge). She has worked extensively on gender, macroeconomics and the care economy with Status of Women Canada (Unpaid Work and Macroeconomics: New Policies New Tools, 1997), the United Nations and the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation on the project on Linkages Between Paid and Unpaid Work in Human Resource Policy.
Hassania CHALBI-DRISSI
Dr. Hassania CHALBI-DRISSI, Moroccan economist and sociologist, has been advisor for the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (direction Economy), expert for the Permanent Consultative Committee of the Maghreb and lecturer-researcher of university. At present, she is consultant for international organizations, specialized in gender. Author of several writings, she has published books such as "Arab woman and decision-making", "Arab-muslim feminism" "Woman, environment, development", "Female elite in Maghreb" and "When the women, say justice first!". She is the founder of Maghreb Associations for Promoting Female Enterprises, founding member of several other organizations including IGTN (International Gender and Trade Network) where she is coordinator of African region (IGTN-Africa) at present. She is also active in Third World Forum, World Forum for Alternatives and Vice-president of FEMNET (representing North Africa).Ewa CHARKIEWICZ
Ewa Charkiewicz is an academic researcher and activist with an interest in critical globalization studies and in feminism and ecology as new social critiques. She worked with the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, coordinated the World Bank External Gender Consultative Group, and worked with DAWN as its research coordinator on sustainable livelihoods. Ewa also held a Rockefeller fellowship on engendering human security at the National Research Council on Women in New York. Since 2005, Ewa has been involved with the Feminist Think Tank in Poland. Her publications include co-authored books and reports. She is now writing a new book on feminist Foucualdian analytic of transition 'from plan to market'.
Marina DURANO
Marina Durano is a coordinator for the DAWN's research theme on the political economy of globalization. She has been working on gender issues in financing for development over the past year and half. Previously, she worked with the International Gender and Trade Network-Asia writing on gender issues in international trade policy and the WTO negotiations. She was a programme specialist in UNIFEM, a fellow of the GEM-IWG Gender and Macroeconomics Summer School, a fellow of the Ronald Coase Summer Workshop on Institutional Analysis, and a visiting researcher at the Institute for Developing Economies in Tokyo. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Manchester in the UK.
Anja K. FRANCK
Anja K. Franck board member of WIDE, Economic Geography at the Department of Human and Economic Geography at the University of Gothenburg - Sweden.With a degree in Development Studies, Asian Studies and Economic Geography from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Anja is currently teaching and writing a PhD in Economic Geography at the Department of Human and Economic Geography at the University of Gothenburg. The focus of the PhD is on EU trade relations with ASEAN and its gendered implications. She has a history in both parliamentary politics and within development and aid NGOs in Sweden.
Other activities she has undertaken for WIDE include being part of the working group preparing the new WIDE Statutes, moderator of the WIDE consultation ´EU Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements: Bringing Women to the Centre of the Debate´ (2007) and author of the WIDE paper ´Feminist Concerns Regarding Core Labor Standards, Decent Work and Corporate Social Responsibility´ (2008).
Luise GUBITZER
Luise Gubitzer is an economist. She is Professor and Head of the Institute of Institutional and Heterodox Economics on the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna, Austria. Her focus of research is Feminist Political Economics on the basis of the 5-Sector Model of the Economy, Gender Budgeting and Development Economics. She is a member of "Joan Robinson-Verein zur Förderung frauengerechter Verteilung ökonomischen Wissens", a network within WIDE Austria.
Stella JEGHER
Stella Jegher, born 1960, has a final degree as a graduate translator from the University of Geneva (1983) and a Masters in European Studies from the University of Basel (1999). Since the early 1980s she is involved in (feminist) peace work and women's rights and human rights projects as an activist, publicist and speaker, among others in the Swiss Peace Council, the Women's Council for Foreign Politics which she helped establish and the NGO-Coalition Post-Beijing. She began her professional practice in these thematic areas in 1989 at cfd, the feminist Peace Organisation. From 1995 to 2003 she was the project director of the Equality Office of the city of Zürich. Since December 2003 she works as campaign coordinator for women's rights in the Swiss section of Amnesty International. Currently she directs the area "Campaigning" of Amnesty International Switzerland and is member of the executive board.
Eva KLAWATSCH-TREITL
Eva Klawatsch-Treitl Studied Business Education at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Actual focus of her approach for adult education is economic literacy with a focus to global economy und development. Working experience with Austrian development NGOs and networks. She is member of the board of WIDE-Austria and coordinator of the working group "women and economy" (Joan Robinson). Lector at the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work (FH-Campus-Wien).
Julia KUBISA
Julia Kubisa graduated in sociology in 2004 at the Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University and started PhD studies. She is interested in sociology of organization and gender and industrial relations and family policy models' in Poland. Her PhD thesis focuses on women's activity in trade unions in Poland, focusing on women in health care sector. Julia participated in research projects concerning trade unions policies and practices. In 2006 - 2009 she worked at European Commission FP6 project: 'Privatization of Public Services and the Impact on Quality, Employment and Productivity' (PIQUE) which involves trade union. Currently works at two Project coordinated by Working Lives Research Institute (London Metropolitan University) about trade unions' and employers' policies and practices on different forms of discrimination. Julia teaches sociology of organization and gender and work issues at Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University. She published articles on trade unions policy on sexual harassment and feminist perspective in industrial relations. Julia took part in editing "White City Courier" - a free bulletin of Polish Trade Union Of Nurses and Midwives published during their White City protest in Warsaw June - July 2007.
In 2006 Julia founded with Anna Pietruszka Drozdz and Sylwia Chutnik the Foundation MaMa www.fundacjamama.pl - a feminist NGO focusing on problems of young mothers in public life in Poland. The Foundation coordinates projects on architectural barriers in big cities, cooperation with local government, alimony debtors, position of young mothers on labor market and comments projects of family policy in Poland. Julia is also Member of 8th March Women Coalition - an informal organization that organizes International Women's Day Demonstration in Warsaw.
In 2008 Julia joined a Polish Feminist Think Tank http://www.ekologiasztuka.pl/pdf/PropFTTJuly2006.pdf In cooperation with Ewa Charkiewicz she started a project "Gender and care in health sector reform. The focus of the project is on nurses and midwives about activity of Polish Trade Union of Nurses and Midwives in context of health care system reform (grant of Polish - Norwegian Research Fund). The project, started in April 2009 aims to document herstory of unique protests of the union and start cooperation between feminist academics and trade unionists. Julia published commentaries about family policy and junk job sector in Poland.
Annemarie SANCAR
Annemarie Sancar holds a PhD in social anthropology on Ethnicity. She works in the field of ethnic identities among refugees and does research on different topics around migration and "integration" of immigrants. She was involved in a study about the situation of immigrant women in the canton of Berne with recommendations for policy makers and the administration, and is expert in critical communication, deconstructing discursive practices around topics like immigrant women, Muslim culture, racists and sexist forms of explaining exclusion etc. Since 6 years Annemarie Sancar is senior gender advisor for SDC (Swiss Agency for development and cooperation) with main focus on rural development, access to assets and questions of care economy, time use and women's employment in development programs.
Stephanie SEGUINO
Stephanie Seguino is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, USA.
Her research explores the macroeconomic relationship between inequality, growth, and development. Recent work develops a unified framework for understanding the macroeconomic role of race and gender inequality; explores the differential unemployment effects of contractionary monetary policy on women and ethnic subaltern groups; considers the relationship between gender and macroeconomic outcomes in countries with balance of payment constraints to growth. For the past two years, she has taught in the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE), a training programme in development economics for policy makers, researchers and civil society representatives from Africa and other developing countries.
Silke STEINHILBER
Silke has worked as a researcher, consultant and trainer on gender equality in employment and social policies in Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union since 1999. She has worked for international organizations such as the International Labour Organisation, the Council of Europe, UN/ECE, as well as trade unions and women's organizations in Europe - among them Karat Coalition and Women in Development Europe (WIDE). A feminist political scientist by training, she has mainly addressed gender and social security reforms, gender and the labor market, and gender mainstreaming in social inclusion policy. Her dissertation at the New School for Social Research in New York is on family policy reforms in Poland and the Czech Republic.
She has two daughters, four and one year old, and lives in Berlin, Germany.
Christa WICHTERICH
Christa Wichterich holds a PhD in sociology, and works as a free-lance journalist, author of books, guest lecturer at universities and consultant in development cooperation. Her main topics are globalization, economy and women's work, women's movements and international women's policies. She is member of the academic council of attac, Germany, and of Women in Development Europe (WIDE).