Event Date: March 17, 2017 - 11:30am to - 1:30pm
Location: FSS 4006, 120 University Private
CIPS and IPEN present:
For both North and South, policies to promote the reconciliation of work and family life constitute an important agenda. For several decades, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has been an important advocate for policies to ease work–family tensions among its member countries. In the South, while the World Bank has continued to focus on women’s maternal roles and early child development, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), aware of the ways that structural adjustment has changed women’s roles, has utilized the feminist concept of “care economy” to rethink family policies.
Two key questions arise: 1) How does each IO understand this issue? 2) Are femocrats – staff who combine “feminist knowledge with skills in administration and management” (Prügl, 2011, p. 76) – well-placed to develop and assert their perspectives within the organisation?
Rianne Mahon holds a CIGI chair in comparative and global social policy governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is a Political Science Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. She co-edited The OECD and Transnational Governance (with S. McBride), Leviathan Undone? (with R. Keil), Feminist Ethics and Social Politics (with F.Robinson), and After ’08 (with S. McBride and G. Boychuk), and co-authored Advanced Introduction to Social Policy (with D. Béland). She has also written numerous articles on the place of childcare in redesigning welfare regimes on the local, national, and global scales. Her current work focuses on how international organisations navigate transnational care chains.
