Past Events

RNGS at the United Nations

The overall findings of the RNGS project were presented by Amy Mazur at the Expert Group Meeting, Equal Participation of Women and Men in Decision-making Processes, with Particular Emphasis on Political Participation and Leadership, sponsored by the Division of the Advancement of Women of the United Nations held in Addis Ababa Ethiopia last October. She also worked with Shirin Rai and the other members of the EGM, as the rapporteur, to produce a final report for the UN and presented the group’s findings at the Fiftieth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women and NGO Consultation for United Nations in February. The paper, called UN Paper, is available on our website and information on the EGM, including all of the expert papers and the final report can be found at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/eql-men/.

RNGS Schedule

2010

Capstone Book Published
Capstone Findings presented at APSA Short Course on Gender and Institutions
Final Dataset archived at ICPSR

2011

1/14/11: “The End of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS): What’s Next” Plenary Session on Capstone Book at the Women and Politics Standing group meeting ECPR- Budapest
Practitioner’s Users Guide Produced
Southern Applications Women’s World Conference July 5-7th
RNGS COMPLETE

Network Meetings

Note that workbooks and reports are available for most of these meetings on request. Many of these meetings were made possible by network grants from the ESF and the NSF.

RNGS Meeting on Capstone Book. Orta, Italy. September, 2004.

RNGS Research Meeting. Three-day group meeting to present current research findings and develop RNGS data set. University of Leiden, The Netherlands. June 2003.

RNGS Research Meeting. Three-day group meeting to present current research findings and develop RNGS data set. University of Turin, Italy. November 2002.

Bridging the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide in Comparative Politics: The Women’s Policy Office Project/ Research Network on Gender, Politics, and the State (RNGS). Short course at the American Political Science Association Meeting. Boston. August-September, 2002.

RNGS Research Meeting. Three-day group meeting to present current research findings. Centre for the Advancement of Women, Queens University, Belfast. December 2001.

Approaches to the Comparative Study of Women’s Movements and the State: The Politics of Prostitution / Trafficking in Women and Hot Issues. Short course at the American Political Science Association Meeting. San Francisco, August-September 2001.

Prostitution and Trafficking as Political Issues. Co Directed by Joyce Outshoorn, Anne Maria Holli and Amy Mazur. European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions Workshops. Copenhagen, Denmark, April. 2000.

RNGS Research Meeting. Three-day group meeting to present updated research findings. Southampton, UK, July 1999.

Measurement Issues for RNGS. Two-day research meeting of research group. Université de Paris IX–CREDEP. Paris, May 1998.

Women and Social Rights in the European Union: Job Training and the Global Economy. Center for West European Studies, University of Washington, February 1998. Lead organizer for a three day conference with a budget of $8,000.

Approaches to the Comparative Study of Gender and Policy Debates. Short course co organized by Amy Mazur and Dorothy McBride Stetson at the American Political Science Association Meeting. San Francisco, September 1996.

Comparative State Feminism. Co organized with Amy Mazur, Dorothy McBride Stetson and Joyce Outshoorn (University of Leiden) a research planning meeting for the International State Feminism Project. Leiden, the Netherlands. July 1995.

State Feminism. Workshop Co Directed by Amy Mazur and Joyce Outshoorn. European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions Workshops. Bordeaux, France, April 1995.

RNGS/IWPR Practitioners Conference

RNGS worked with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in presenting the following mini conference at IWPR International Meeting on Women’s Policy, June 19-20th, 2005. Thanks to additional support from the European Science Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Fredereich Ebert Foundation, this conference presented RNGS findings to policy practitioners from several countries studied in the project. The complete paper packet as well as the summary of the two roundtables are available in the working papers section of the website.

“Government Allies for Gender Equality: A Transatlantic Dialogue”
RNGS Mini-Conference at the Institute of Women’s Policy Research’s 8th Annual International Policy and Research Conference, June 19th-20th, 2005
Omni Shoreham, Washington D.C.
Working Schedule

Sunday Evening June 19th
6:00–9:00 pm
RNGS Poster Session/ Welcome Reception

RNGS researchers present country findings in poster sessions; larger thematic presentations with brief position papers will be presented during the conference.

Plenary: Government Allies for Gender Equality: A Transatlantic Dialogue

Sponsored by the Friederich Ebert Foundation
A roundtable discussion by European and American leaders about how Europe and the USA can work together to pursue gender equality policy. Participants—TBA

Monday June 20th
9:00–10:30 IWPR Opening Plenary

RNGS Mini Conference
Government Allies for Gender Equality: A Transatlantic Dialog

10:45–12:15
Can Government Be an Ally for Gender Equality?: Research and Policy Practices

Dorothy McBride (Florida Atlantic University)

Anne Maria Holli (University of Helsinki)

Marila Guadagnini (University of Turin)

Shirin M. Rai (University of Warwick)

12:15–2:00
Perspectives on Securing Women’s Rights By Issue
Chair: Lynn Kamenitsa, Northern Illinois University

Job Training — Amy Mazur (Washington State University)

Abortion — Dorothy McBride (Florida Atlantic University)

Prostitution – Joyce Outshoorn (University of Leiden, the Netherlands)

Political Representation – Diane Sainsbury (Stockholm University)

Hot Issue – (Birgit Sauer, University of Vienna)

2:00–2:15 Break

2:15–3:45
Lessons Learned Through National Experiences
Chair: Amy Mazur ( Washington State University)

The Netherlands –Joyce Outshoorn (University of Leiden)

Canada — Melissa Hausmann (Suffolk University)

Austria — Birgit Sauer (University of Vienna)

Italy — Marila Guadagnini (University of Turin)

Spain — Celia Valiente (University of Madrid)

Sweden — Diane Sainsbury (University of Stockholm)

Finland — Anne Maria Holli (University of Helsinki)

Germany — Lynn Kamenitsa (Northern Illinois University)

Belgium — Alison Woodward (Free University of Brussels)

Ireland — Evelyn Mahon (Trinity University)

France — Amy Mazur (Washington State University)

USA/UK — Dorothy McBride (Florida Atlantic University)

Break 3:45–4:00

4:00–5:30
Government Actors Speak out: Views from the Field
Chair, Shirin Rai (University of Warwick)

Laura Balbo, Former Minister of Equal Opportunity, Italy

Agnès Hubert, Former Head of the Equal Opportunities Unit, European Union

Natalia Zakharova, Gender Analysis Section/Division of the Advancement of Women, DESA, United Nations

Sabine Lang, Former Director of Public Affairs/Executive Office of the State Secretary for Labor and Women’s Issues in Berlin

Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo, Senior Advisor on Women’s Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality