Gender Inequality and the European Regions

Documents from 16 January 1992 to 22 April 1998

Identity Statement

HAEU Reference Code
ESF-1066
Original Reference Code
NW 45
Physical Medium

Paper

Reference Archivists

Mathevon, Valerie; Meyer, Ruth Ingeborg

Context

Administrative and Biographical History

The Network on Gender Inequality and the European Regions run from July 1994 to June 1997.
The Chairman was Dr. Simon S. Duncan from the University of Bradford.

Content and Structure

Abstract

Main topics discussed during the Network on Gender Inequality and the European Regions are: gender divisions of labour (paid and unpaid work, households and living arrangements, reconciling home and work); gender divisions of power (states, rights, identities, male violence and control); gender understandings (cultural reproduction of gender myths and norms, women's movements and oppositions, values and attitudes).

The dossier contains correspondence on the approval, establishment and organisation of the Network. It contains the proposal for the Network; minutes of the Coordination Committee meeting, Brighton, 17-18 Nov 1994; article: "Theorizing European gender systems" by Simon Duncan; minutes of the Coordination Committee meeting, Barcelona, 27 Jan 1996; minutes of the meeting of the Coordination Committee, Mekrijärvi, 19-21 Sep 1996; book proposals: "An Atlas of European Patriarchy", "Understanding European Patriarchy: forms, theories and explanations"; correspondence on the publications;
Newsletters: n. 2, Nov 1995; n. 3 April 1996; mailing lists of participants in the Network and mailing lists for the newsletter. It contains also completion report 1998 and evaluation.
The dossier contains documents concerning the workshops: first workshop on "Gender inequality in paid employment in Europe and its regions", Bremen, June 1995: list of participants, programme, correspondence; second workshop on "Analysing European gender systems and gender inequality in household/family", Barcelona, 25-28 Jan 1996: correspondence, programme, participants, abstract of papers, papers by Maria-Angela Duran, Eileen Drew; third workshop on "Analysing European states and gender inequality", Joensuu, 19-22 Sep 1996: programme, participants, correspondence, papers by Anne Lise Ellingsæter (abstract), Celia Valiente, Erna Maria Appelt, Doris Wastl-Walter, Lilja Mósesdóttir, Evelyn Mahon (abstract); preliminary programme of the fourth workshop on "Analysing gender culture and gender division of power in European regions", Dublin, 3-6 July 1997.

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Languages

English, French, Italian

Type of Archival Materials

Textual

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