Hello fellow TCRGers - thought some of you might be interested in this
call for papers.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Liz Mandeville
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 1:19 PM
Subject: [EARN-List] Call for Papers - IWPR 2005 Conference

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The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) with co-sponsors The
Women's Studies Program at the George Washington University and the
Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Washington Office

present

IWPR's Eighth International Women's Policy Research Conference:
When Women Gain, So Does the World
June 20-21, 2005

Call for Papers and Posters

IWPR will hold its Eighth International Women's Policy Research
Conference, When Women Gain, So Does the World on June 20-21, 2005, at
the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. The conference will be held
in conjunction with the Research Network on Gender, Politics and State
(RNGS). For more information on RNGS, visit their website at
http://libarts.wsu.edu/polisci/rngs.

The conference theme centers around the reality that investing in
women's status globally is important not only for women themselves, but
is critical to the economic and social well-being of entire communities,
institutions, and nations. For example, improving women's economic
opportunities promotes community health; women's equality in the labor
force leads to better business outcomes; and advancing women's
leadership holds the possibility to transform public policy. IWPR
invites policymakers, advocates, researchers, and practitioners from
academia, labor unions, business, government, non-profits and NGOs, and
the media to our international conference to share information and
discuss policy strategy that can be used to improve the programs and
policies around the world that protect and promote women and girls.

Conference papers, panels, roundtables and posters will consider women's
status and progress in five main areas:

1. Labor, Trade, Business, and Economy (which includes topics such as
women in business and micro-enterprise, women and collective bargaining,
the quality of jobs, access to education and training, globalization and
trade, economic development, and trends in pay equity);

2. Health, Human Security, and Human Rights (which includes access to
health care, violence against women and girls, criminal justice systems,
reproductive health rights, and the rights of refugees);

3. Poverty and Income Security (which includes public assistance, the
rights of immigrants, sustainable development, inequality, and the
intersection of poverty, gender, race, and ethnicity);

4. Women's Rights, Civic Engagement, and Social Change (which includes
women's movements worldwide, women and religion, governance, women's
leadership, gender-based initiatives, and peace, war, and terrorism);
and

5. Family, Culture, and Population (which includes paid care leaves,
social security, adoption and foster care, work/life balance, child and
elder care, population trends and changing fertility patterns, sex-based
discrimination, aging, and same-sex marriage).

This is not an exhaustive list - all topics that suggest the conference
theme are welcome. For a more developed list of conference topics,
please visit www.iwpr.org.

IWPR welcomes proposals that focus on policies and programs affecting
women and girls in the United States and globally, and that make
connections between research and policymaking. We particularly welcome
proposals addressing issues of race/ethnicity, class, disability status,
and sexual orientation across the full lifecycle of women including
girlhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older age. The conference will be
conducted in English. Abstracts of proposed paper presentations are due
by October 31, 2004. See the IWPR website at www.iwpr.org for further
information about proposal submissions and information regarding
conference logistics.

Participants should note that IWPR's conference will take place during
the two days immediately following the International Association for
Feminist Economics (IAFFE) 2005 conference, also to be held in
Washington, DC. See www.iaffe.org for more information.

Submission Guidelines
Papers
Papers should be original and not previously published. Approximately
three individual papers on similar or related topics will be presented
at each session. Most presentations will be limited to 60 minutes total
(20 minutes per presenter) with an additional 30 minutes for discussion.
Proposals must include a summary of not more than 300 words describing:
the relationship of the paper to the conference theme; the theoretical
framework; sources of data, if applicable; methodology; and results and
their policy implications.
The conference program committee will arrange proposals according to
topics to form a 90-minute session.

Posters
Posters enable presenters to discuss their work based on either written
or illustrative materials. Submission guidelines for posters are the
same as the guidelines for paper proposals. Reports of completed
research, research in progress, or recently funded projects may be
submitted as a poster presentation. The poster session and reception
will take place on June 20 from 5:15-6:45 pm, and is expected to be very
well-attended.

Suggestions for paper panels and roundtables (discussions, not requiring
a paper, that bring together opinion leaders, business and labor
leaders, scholars, policymakers, and others to discuss various topics
related to policies affecting women and girls) are welcome. See the
abstract submission form on our website www.iwpr.org for more
information.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit their abstracts online. You
may submit your abstract online by accessing IWPR's website at
www.iwpr.org by
11:59 pm on October 31, 2004. To mail proposals, download the submission
forms from IWPR's website and mail four copies to IWPR (address below).
All proposals will be reviewed by the Conference Program Committee, and
applicants will be notified no later than the end of January 2005
whether their proposal(s) have been accepted for inclusion in the
conference program. All accepted presenters must register for the
conference.

Institute for Women's Policy Research
Attn: Conference Committee
1707 L Street, NW, Suite 750
Washington, D.C. 20036

For further information, or to obtain a hard copy of this Call for
Papers, please visit our website at www.iwpr.org, or contact IWPR's
Conference Fellow, Elizabeth Mandeville, at conference@... or (202)
785-5100.