Activities and Meetings
The Study Group aims to meet at all IIRA World Congresses and as many regional and national congresses as possible. Meetings are open to all interested persons who share a commitment to ensuring the visibility of gender issues within industrial relations research.
Members are encouraged to volunteer to facilitate meetings are IIRA Regional Congresses. The Study Group meetings are usually in a seminar format, organized around a topical theme and allow plenty of time for discussion and networking with other members. Guest speakers might be invited or a call for papers made. Members are encouraged to make suggestions.
Forthcoming meetings
The Study Group will organize a meeting at the next IIRA 9th European Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 28-30 June 2010 (http://www.iiraeurope2010.com). Further details will be circulated to members and posted on the website as plans progress. Suggestions for study group themes, format, and speakers for this congress are encouraged Email: g.kirton@qmul.ac.uk
Past meetings
2009 |
IIRA World Congress in Sydney, 24-27 August 2009 (http://www.iceaustralia.com/IIRA2009/) - The gender and IR study group at the International Industrial Relations Association conference in Sydney Australia was titled: ‘“Its OK to have your mind in two places at once”: Gender in organisations and the challenges for theory and practice’. The meeting drew on an excerpt from popular culture – an episode of an Australian police drama series - to identify and unpack several ubiquitous, gendered issues relevant to Australian and international workplaces. A panel of four industry practitioners and academics - Alison Sheridan from the University of New England, Somali Cerise from the Australian Human Rights Commission, Sara Charlesworth from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Kerriann Dear from the Queensland Working Women’s Service - framed the discussion from their respective areas of expertise. Approximately 25 conference delegates from a range of countries attended the meeting and actively participated in discussions. Major themes included those related to gender and police work and ‘doing gender’ in other masculinised work environments, workplace sexual harassment, workplace cultures which foster (or not) women’s participation and inclusion, and issues of power and leadership. |
2007 |
8th European Regional IIRA Congress, Manchester, UK, 3-8 September. Theme – Equal Pay and the Undervaluation of Women’s Work Guest speaker: Professor Jill Rubery, Manchester University. Discussant: Dr Jackie O’Reilly, Sussex University. |
2004 |
7th European Regional IIRA Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-14 September. Theme – Gender and Industrial Relations in Europe |
2003 |
IIRA World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 8-11 September. Theme – Gender and Trade Unionism |
2000 |
IIRA World Congress, Tokyo, Japan, 28 May – 2 June. Theme – Research in Gender meets the Industrial Relations Tradition – consequences of diversity. |
8th European Regional IIRA Congress, Manchester, UK, 3-8 September 2007.
8th European Regional IIRA Congress, Manchester, UK, 3-8 September 2007.
