International Conference on Gender Economics
<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">International Conference on Gender Economics</span></span></b></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Removing obstacles to gender equality and women’s economic empowerment</span></span></b></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">The FREE Network – the Forum for Research On Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies – and the International School of Economics at TSU (ISET) and its Policy Institute, are delighted to extend a warm invitation to participate in an international conference on gender economics entitled: "Removing Obstacles to Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment". The conference will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia in November 2019. The conference is organized as part of the FROGEE initiative – the Forum for Research on Gender Economics – supported by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and coordinated by the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). The objective of the conference is bringing together researchers, policy-makers, and the broader development community to discuss the obstacles to gender equality and women’s economic empowerment, and policies to remove existing constraints, with a focus on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies. </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Our aim is to contribute to the development of national and regional agendas pursuing the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (see UN’s portal <a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/"><span style="color:black">here</span></a>), with a particular focus on Gender Equality (SDG 5), critical to achieving 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">We are currently accepting abstracts (max 500 words) presenting research on, but not limited to, the following topics:</span></span></span></span></p>
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<li style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black"><span style="tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gender discrimination in the labor market</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black"><span style="tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gender gap in labor force participation</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black"><span style="tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gender gap in the allocation of time to unpaid care and domestic work</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black"><span style="tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gender gap in leadership positions at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:black"><span style="tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gender gap in the access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">For all topics we welcome papers analyzing the causes of the gender gaps and/or potential policy solutions (including the evaluation of the impacts of projects and policies that have already been implemented inside or outside the region).</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Important Dates:</span></span></b></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Conference dates: 15-16 November, 2019.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Deadline for abstract submissions: July/10/2019.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Notification of acceptance: Jul/31/2019.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Full-paper submission deadline, for accepted abstracts: Oct/15/2019.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify; margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://iset.tsu.ge/conferences/frogee-conference"><span style="color:black">https://iset.tsu.ge/conferences/frogee-conference</span></a></span></span></span></span></p>
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