CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

GENDER AND WORK: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN PRACTICE

OCTOBER 1 AND 2, 2004
York University, Keele Campus

Conference website:
http://www.genderwork.ca/conference/

The Gender and Work Database (GWD) is an integrated
research and teaching tool under development in the
School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal
and Professional Studies, York University. This
database brings together current research on gender
and work and social policy, a broad range of data
sources and methods, and innovative technological
applications.

At the conference, researchers from across Canada will
present analytical and conceptual papers prepared as
part of their participation in the development of the
GWD.   This conference (and the GWD itself) spans a
wide range of subject areas in the field of feminist
scholarship on gender and work.  It will offer a forum
for presenting cutting-edge research in the field,
demonstrate the applications of the GWD, and reveal
areas for future work using this interdisciplinary
research and teaching tool.

All are welcome to join us for this event.  Please
register using the conference web address above.

For additional information please contact:

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416-736-2100 x 33962

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CONFERENCE SESSIONS:

Day 1:  Friday, October 1st

1.  Noises and Silences: The Production and
Representation of Data on Gender and Work

Description: Feminist scholarship is concerned to
challenge what is often invisible as well as to
trouble the commonsensical, to reveal social relations
of inequality that are concealed.  How do noises and
silences in the production and representation of data
(of various sorts) on gender and work shape what comes
to be known? How do they affect research processes and
outcomes?

2.  The Vocabulary of Gender and Work

Description: Representation in and through language
mediates social relations surrounding gender and work.
 What are the central challenges in representing
complex and changing labour market structures and
dynamics? What issues and questions are important to
consider in developing subject- or discipline-specific
vocabulary?

3.  Categories and Classification

Description: Categorization, or the process of
identifying and delineating boundaries, and
classification, or the process of organizing
categories, by definition, include and exclude.  What
are the effects and consequences of various schema?
How do they relate to labour market structures and
outcomes?

Day 2:  Saturday, October 2nd

4.  Axes of Differentiation and Stratification

Description: Feminist scholars identify two
intersecting processes that shape the labour market as

a gendered domain: differentiation and stratification.
 What axes are dominant in the contemporary labour
market and how are they sustained?

5.  A Conceptual Dialogue with Data

Description: To transform social science knowledge on
gender and work, what is needed is a conceptual
dialogue with data. How can scholarship drawing on
multiple methods better inform research in this area?

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Conference website:
http://www.genderwork.ca/conference/
York University:  http://www.yorku.ca

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Krista Scott-Dixon
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York University
North York, ON

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Andrew Jackson
Senior Economist
Canadian Labour Congress
2841 Riverside Drive
Ottawa ON
K1V 8X7
Tel 613 526 7445

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