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Gender mainstreaming in European Union employment and social inclusion policy arenas - a progress review
with Colette
Fagan
Visiting Honorary Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2005) and Reader in Sociology, University of
Manchester, UK
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Biography
Dr. Colette Fagan is
Co-Director
of the European Work and Employment Research Centre and Reader
(Associate
Professor) in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.
She is currently on
sabbatical and visiting the University of Madison
as an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Sociology and the European
Union
Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005). Previously she
has
completed several extended research visits as a visiting research
fellow at the
Wissenschaftszentrum (Social
Science Research Centre) Berlin
(1994/5, 1998).
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Her
research focuses on gender relations in employment and domestic
life, with particular interests in international comparative analyses
and the
topic of 'time'. She has an
extensive record of international comparative research funded by major
international organisations, including the European Commission,
International
Labour Office, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living
and
Working Conditions, the European Trade Union Institute and the
Anglo-German
Foundation, and UK
grants secured from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) and
the
Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
She is working on two
main
areas of research at present. The first is gender mainstreaming and
developments in EU policy, through her role as co-coordinator (with
Professors Jill Rubery and Janneke Plantenga) of the European
Commission Expert Group on Gender,
Social Inclusion and Employment (EGGSIE network). The network is a team
of 30 academic 'national experts' representing 30 European
countries (the 25 EU member states plus 5 neighbouring countries). The
network's remit is to contribute to the design and evaluation of the
European
Commission's National Action Plans (NAPs) on Employment and on Social
Inclusion
and to advance equal opportunities and gender mainstreaming in the
policies of
the European Commission.
Her second main
research area at present is writing-up several related
projects on working-time, work-family policies and the re-shaping of
gender
relations, including two books to be published by Edward Elgar in 2006
and 2007.
This area of work includes a recently completed qualitative study of UK
households containing young children, financed by the ESRC (with
colleagues Linda McDowell, Diane Perrons, Kath Ray and Kevin Ward),
and international comparisons of national models of working-time
practices,
policies and preferences (financed in part by the ILO, the European
Commission
and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working
Conditions).
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