Conference Program
Imagining Public Policy to Meet Women's Economic Security Needs
Friday, October 14, 2005+
Plenary I - Imagining Progressive Social Welfare Policy
• Jane Jenson (
Université de Montréal )
• Shelagh Day (Poverty & Human Rights Project)
• Patsy George (Community advocate and activist)
Session A
- Roundtable A: Challenging the Income Security/Labour Market Nexus for Women
• Martha MacDonald (St. Mary's University)
• Wendy McKeen (Dalhousie University) The Children's Agenda and the Shifting Philosophy of Social Policy in Canada: Where do we go from here?
• Randy Albelda (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
• Stella Lord (Nova Scotia policy analyst) Low Income Single Mothers and Compulsory Employment
• Ernie Lightman (University of Toronto, Social Work) Challenging the Assumptions of the Economic Market
• Panel A1: Translating Dreams into Policy: Re-Imagining Governance
• Barbara Cameron (York University)
• Shelagh Day (Poverty & Human Rights Project)
• Tammy Findlay (York University)
• Kim McIntyre (York University)
• Panel A2: Women of an (un)certain age: Shaping older women's economic future
• Charmaine Spencer (Simon Fraser University, Gerontology Research Centre)
• Elsie Dean (Women Elders in Action)
• Lillian Zimmerman (Simon Fraser University, Gerontology Research Centre)
• Panel A3: Immigrant Women's Economic Security
• Jill Hanley (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) / Eric Shragge (Concordia University) Economic Security for Women with Precarious Immigration Status: Enforcing Labour Rights for Everyone
• Dan Zuberi (UBC HELP) The Thorn Net: How Interactions of Social Safety Net Gaps Harm Hotel Room Attendants in Seattle and Vancouver
• Fiona MacPhail (University of Northern British Columbia) Imagining Public Policy: What do women casual workers want? (co-authored by Paul Bowles, University of Northern British Columbia)
• Panel A4: Meeting Women's Needs as Health Care Clients and Providers
• Melody Kelly (Memorial University) Supporting Women's Economic Security Needs Through A Universal Home Care Policy
• Arlene Tigar McLaren (Simon Fraser University) - Where's the Care? Re-conceptualizing the boundaries of public and private in community-based home support services (co-authored by Tracey Lou Black, BC Health Coalition, Darlene Thorburn, BCGEU, and Ann Chamber, BCGEU)
• Laura Zilney (Canadian Federation of University Women) Moving Beyond the Policy Debate: How Process Improvements Can Dramatically Impact Service Delivery in the Health Care System
Session B
• Roundtable B: Community-based Health Care Models For the Economic Security of Women
• Marcy Cohen (Hospital Employees' Union)/Laura Rath (Hospital Employees' Union)
• Sheila Rowswell (Mid-Main Health Clinic and Hospital Employees' Union)
• Patrick LaPointe & Louise McKinney (Saskatoon Community Clinic)
• Panel B1: Livable or Basic Income: A New Approach to Economic Security
• Jim Mulvale (University of Regina)
• Cindy L'Hirondelle (Victoria Status of Women Action Group)
• Diane Delaney (Provincial Association for Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan)
• Rhonda Breitkreuez (University of Alberta)/Deanna Williamson (University of Alberta) - Enhancing social policy in Canada: The Gortex solution
• Panel B2: Imagining Women, Provisioning and Community in a Provident State
• Marge Reitsma-Street (University of Victoria) All the work women do: Imagining household and collective provisioning
• Stepahnie Baker Collins (York University) The complex web of household provisioning: Stories of food coop members
• Elaine Porter (Laurentian University) Collective provisioning: Contributions of community resource centres
• Sheila Neysmith (University of Toronto) Provisioning policies of a provident state
• Panel B3: Unemployment Insurance (EI), Old Age Benefits & Retirement Issues
• Laurell Ritchie (Canadian Auto Workers Union): Women & EI Benefits
• Margaret Manery (Independent Researcher from BC): Abolishing Mandatory Retirement: What are the Safeguards for Women?
• Madonna Harrington Meyer & Kristenne Robison (Syracuse University): Linking Old Age Benefits to Marital Status vs. a Minimum Benefit
• Panel B4: Including Women in Policy/Budget Making
• Jennifer deGroot (UN Platform for Action Committee Manitoba) Gender Budgets as a tool for women's economic security
• Olena Hankivsky (Simon Fraser University) Gender Mainstreaming in Neoliberal Times: The Potential of Deep Evaluation
Plenary II - Imagining Strong Employment Policy
- Leah Vosko (York University)
- Penni Richmond (Canadian Labour Congress)
- Cecilia Diocson (Philippine Women's Centre)
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Plenary III Imagining Social Supports that Work
- Marta Szebehely (Stockholm University)
- Rita Chudnovsky (BC Coalition of Child Care Advocates)
- Fay Blaney (Aboriginal Women's Action Network - AWAN)
Session C
• Roundtable C: Securing Women's Economic Future: Redressing the Devaluation of Precarious Jobs in Policy & Practice
• Pat Armstrong (York University) -
Who are the Healthcare Workers? Revaluing Skill' to Improve Women Workers' Economic Security
• Leah Vosko (York University) -Measures Matter: Employment Insurance Post-1966 and the Quest for Women's Equality
• Stephanie Bernstein (University of Quebec at Montreal) Employment Standards in Québec: Regulatory Failure and Prospects for Securing Effective Protection for Womens Workers
• Katherine Lippel (University of Quebec at Montreal) -Workers' Compensation Statistics: How Costs of Injury to Women Workers are Under-Estimated and Potential Solutions
• Nancy Zukewich (Statistics Canada)
• Panel C1: Community-Based Research Processes: Addressing the Needs of Multiple Constituencies
• Catherine M. Scott (University of Calgary) - Women and Fair Income: Creating Women Centred Policy Alternatives through Community-Based Research (co-authored by W.E. Thurston)
• Michelle Murdoch (Memorial University of Newfoundland) - Reimagining Disabilities through Self-Determine Voices
• Laura Dreuth Zeman (Southern Illinois University) - Community Based Research Using Mother's Narratives from an Internet Support Community
• Panel C2: Single Mothers on Social Assistance: Moving Towards Solutions
• Amber Gazso (University of Alberta) Listening to Low-Income Parents' Experiences of Work/Family Conflict to Meet their Needs in Future Social Assistance Policy Restructuring
• Natasha Kim (Harvard Law School) The Road Not to Take: Hard Lessons for Canadian Women from the American Experience in Welfare Law and Policy
• Margot Young (The University of British Columbia) Single Mothers on Welfare: Catch 22
• Corrine Elizabeth Skarstedt (Carleton University) Forging Fundamental Solutions: (Un)spinning Canada's Socio-Economic (In)security
• Lea Caragata (Wilfred Laurier University)/ Joe Manion (Toronto Social Services) Lone Mothers: Policy Responses to Build Social Inclusion
• Panel C3: Caring Work: Voluntary or Controlled?
• Paul Kershaw (UBC HELP) Care fair : feminist policy reform served neoliberal style'
• Susan Braedley (York University) Getting Guys to Care': Can Social Policies that Encourage Men's Participation in Care Work Positively Impact on Women's Economic Security?
• Amanda J Felkey (Cornell University) Will You Covenant Marry Me? A Look at a New Type of Marriage
• Panel C4: Working with Disabilities
• John Vellacott (The University of British Columbia) For Better or Worse? National Employment Policy Approaches and Women with Disabilities
• Marina Morrow (The University of British Columbia) Making Work: Income Security for Women with Mental Illness
• Christine Gordon (BC Coalition of People with Disabilities)
Session D
• Roundtable D: Flexibility vs Entitlement to Support: Pathways to the Future
• Penny Gurstein / Silvia Vilches (The University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning) Pathways to the Future: Implications of the Income Assistance Project
• Sylvia Fuller (The University of British Columbia, Anthropology/Sociology)
• Paul Kershaw (The University of British Columbia, Human Early Learning Project)
• Jane Pulkingham (Simon Fraser University, Sociology/Anthropology)
• Margo Young (The University of British Columbia, Law)
• Panel B3: Economic Security for Women in the Sex Trade
• Leslie Ann Jeffrey (University of New Brunswick) It's the Money, Honey: Income Security and Sex Work
• Emily van der Meulen (York University) Towards more Egalitarian Policies on Prostitution: What Canada Can Learn from the International Community
• Lee Lakeman - Vancouver Rape Relief
• Panel D2: Policies for Low Income Women
• Shauna Butterwick (The University of British Columbia) Low Income Single Mothers & Access to Post-Secondary Education
• Jane Henrici (University of Memphis) Learning to be Poor: Job Training and Women in the US
• Dr. Lynn Scruby (University of Manitoba) / Rachel Rapaport Beck (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence) Program and Policy Directions: Including Low Income Women with Children
• Wendy McKeen (Dalhousie University) - The Children's Agenda and teh Shifting Philosopy of Social Policy in Canada: Where do we go from here?
• Panel D3: Community Voices in Policy Making
• Kay Willson (Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence) We've Found our Voices. Now Who's Listening?
• Lise Martin & Dr. Jo-Anne Lee (Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women: CRIAW) Working to Integrate Marginalized Women's Voices into Social Policy and Debates
• Chrystal Ocean (Wellbeing thru Inclusion Socially and Economically WISE) Recommendations from Women in Poverty: Community Based Solutions
• Panel: D4: Labour from the Bottom Up
• Stephen McBride (Simon Fraser University) / Kathy McNutt (Student Simon Fraser University) Women's Economic Security and Experiences of Labour Market Alienation
• Andrew Jackson (Canadian Labour Congress) Addressing the needs of low wage workers
• Marcy Cohen (Hospital Employees' Union) Organizing privatized health workers: Learning from the BC and UK Experiences
Plenary IV - Strategies for Change: Looking for a Different Future
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