Focus panel 7 – Care economy: doing away with gender blind policies for a beyond growth future
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Summary
This panel will discuss blind-spots in climate, care policy and pay equality and how to better take gender into account when dealing with these policies. More specifically, the focus will be on how these blind-spots affect the socio-economic situation of women and other under-represented groups, including care-workers, and how a well-being approach that goes beyond growth could make for a more sustainable and equal society.
Chair
- Maria Walsh - MEP (EPP), Beyond Growth Conference Organiser
Speakers
- Ipek Ilkkaracan - Professor of at Istanbul Technical University, President of the International Association for Feminist Economics
- Hans Dubois - Research Manager at Eurofound
- Mary Collins - Senior Advocacy and Policy Coordinator, European Women's Lobby
- Tim Jackson - Professor and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
- Robert Sweeney - Senior Economic and Policy Analyst, Think-tank for Action on Social Change Ireland (TASC)
Discussants
- Laeticia Thissen - Policy analyst for gender equality, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)
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Speaker
Maria Walsh
Member of the European Parliament (EPP), Beyond Growth Conference Organiser
Mary Collins
Senior Advocacy and Policy Coordinator, European Women's Lobby
Hans Dubois
Research Manager at Eurofound
Ipek Ilkkaracan
Professor of at Istanbul Technical University, President of the International Association for Feminist Economics
Tim Jackson
Professor and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
Robert Sweeney
Senior Economic and Policy Analyst, Think-tank for Action on Social Change Ireland (TASC)
Laeticia Thissen
Policy analyst for gender equality, Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS)