Focus panel 7 – Care economy: doing away with gender blind policies for a beyond growth future

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)