21-23 March 2013, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Call for papers deadline: Proposals may be submitted from 1st June to 1st October 2012. Participants will be notified of the decision by 1st November 2012.
Isabelle Engeli and Karen Celis, co-conveners of the Standing Group on Gender and Politics, Tània Verge, local organizer
Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried guardian.co.uk A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia. Curt Rice looks at the reasons why and warns that universities’ survival is at risk. (Thanks @philosopher1978)
A Muslim, northern, working-class mum hand-picked for Cameron’s A-list… But is Sayeeda Warsi up to the job? Daily Mail When Sayeeda Warsi stood outside 10 Downing Street in a pink-and-gold shalwar kameez before the first Coalition Cabinet meeting in May 2010, she was one of the most conspicuous members of an uncertain new Government.
Profile: Sayeeda Warsi, the trailblazing peer who divided the Tory party Telegraph.co.uk The daughter of immigrants from Pakistan, who has described herself as a “Northern, working-class roots, urban, working mum”, she represented the sort of multicultural, classless Conservative party David Cameron wanted to build.
Claire Perry: a new breed of iron lady The Guardian The liberal Tory behind the opt-in pornography campaign is being tipped for great things within the party.
What does the localism agenda mean for women? The Guardian (blog) Two experts share their views on whether women can make the most of opportunities granted to communities under the Localism Act
Ireland
Oxygen of publicity energises Sinn Féin but lack of airtime weakens Labour Irish Times As in previous polls Sinn Féin is far more attractive to men than women. The big jump in the satisfaction rating of party leader Gerry Adams is another plus for Sinn Féin. By contrast, the poll will leave Labour with some serious thinking to do.
Ann Phelan urges women to vote Yes Kilkenny People Labour Party TD Ann Phelan is urging the women of Ireland to “think of the future” and to vote Yes in the upcoming referendum on the Stability Treaty on May 31. “A Yes vote will give the country stability, certainty and confidence,” Deputy Phelan said.
US
Veterans Give Romney Big Lead Over Obama Gallup.com Obama and Romney are tied overall at 46% apiece among all registered voters in this sample. Men give Romney an eight-point edge, while women opt for Obama over Romney by seven points. It turns out that the male skew for Romney is driven almost entirely by veterans. Romney leads by one point among nonveteran men, contrasted with the 28-point edge Romney receives among male veterans.
With video Chris Matthews: Will White Women Make Or Break The Election This Year? Mediaite Given a recent poll showing a vast majority of white women are concerned about their children’s futures, Matthews asked if they would help decide this election for either candidate.
(Video and transcript) Alan Simpson Admits He’s a RINO, Says ‘Men Legislators Shouldn’t Even Vote’ on Abortion NewsBusters (blog) Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wy.) went on quite an anti-GOP rant Sunday after admitting on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, “I guess I’m known as a RINO now which means Republican In Name Only.” Before taking a shot at tax advocate Grover Norquist – who “[wanders] the earth in his white robes” – Simpson said, “Abortion is a horrible thing, but for heaven sakes, it’s deeply intimate and personal decision, and men legislators shouldn’t even vote on it”
The GOP’s women voters wedge Video on msnbc.com Melissa Harris-Perry and her panelists discuss.
Iraq Conference in Iraq Focuses on Women’s Role in Politics AINA (press release) Despite previous complaints regarding the composition and number of individual delegations, the atmosphere was positive and most attendees were optimistic about the effect the meeting will have on women’s issues.
Pakistan Lar woman becomes MC’s Secretary General GreaterKashmir.com Islamabad, May 27: Upholding years-long tradition, the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference Sunday selected a Kashmiri speaking woman, Mehar-un-Nissa, as the party’s secretary general.
South Africa ‘Zille mustn’t laugh it off’ iAfrica.com Women of all races and politics must set aside their differences and fight patriarchy, Angie Motshekga, president of the ANC Women’s League, said in Johannesburg on Sunday.
Zimbabwe MDC woos women supporters NewsDay Addressing an MDC provincial womens assembly rally at Stanley Hall in Makokoba, Bulawayo on Friday, Ndlovu, a former Nkulumane senator, said women in opposition should go on a recruitment drive and deliver victory for their party.
South Sudan Gender Equality and the Human Rights Concern in Country AllAfrica.com For many centuries and decades, South Sudanese have had their cultural traditional systems, customs; value and believes that had devalued the gender promotion, gender equality and the recognition of women’s rights in many tribal societies across the country.
Rwanda Quantity or Quality – Impact of Female Leaders On Women’s Lives AllAfrica.com For Mukabalisa, a 58-year-old resident of Kigali, having those women in politics does not benefit the ordinary women in any way. “When they are put in those positions, they don’t talk to the citizens to see what the reality is like,” she complains.
Philippines Women Informed On Voters’ Rights Manila Bulletin Efforts by the local city government of Marikina to better equip women with more knowledge about their rights as voters got a shot in the arm following the recent launched of several programs promoting such an objective. The project dubbed “Dalaga Ka Na!’’ stresses the equal rights and obligations of men and women like voting.
Singapore New chief for AWARE TODAYonline Human resource practitioner Winifred Loh will lead Singapore’s women’s rights group, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)….She also believes that gender is an important factor in ensuring diversity. As president, she hopes to continue to influence positive changes in government policy and programmes by being the voice for gender equality and helping to groom the next generation of women leaders.
Malaysia A man behind every woman’s success? Malaysia Chronicle (Opinion) We are very fortunate that our government has taken a bold move in repositioning women’s importance by setting a target of at least 30 per cent women representation decision-making positions in the corporate sector by 2016.
Ann Phelan urges women to vote Yes Kilkenny People Labour Party TD Ann Phelan is urging the women of Ireland to “think of the future” and to vote Yes in the upcoming referendum on the Stability Treaty on May 31. “A Yes vote will give the country stability, certainty and confidence,” Deputy Phelan said.
Postgraduate students are being used as ‘slave labour’ The Independent “The situation also benefits those research students privileged enough to be able to work for free, and it disadvantages women, as many women tend to work part time because of domestic responsibilities and are often not in a position to work for free.”
Outside Money Making The Race A Rich Man’s Game NPR These political money men are already changing the way elections are won and lost. “That’s one of the interesting things about this,” Machowiak says. “These outside groups are playing an outsized role on the campaign right now.
Can May Polls Predict A November Winner? NPR …Still, Howard says that even this far out, polls mean a lot to the campaigns. ”I think there’s a lot of value to getting a real-time fix on where you’re at, what your weak spots are and what your strengths are so you can kind of calibrate your campaign,” says Howard. For example, polls last month showed President Obama with a wide lead over Romney among women. The Romney campaign shifted strategy, and this month, polls suggest that Romney has shrunk the gender gap.
Former GOP Congresswoman Blasts New GOP Women’s Caucus ThinkProgress Former Rep. Claudine Schneider (R) was the first — and only — woman to represent Rhode Island in Congress. Over five terms in the House (from 1981 to 1991), she helped pass key environmental, health, and gender-equity laws, including the Economic Equity and the Pension Equity Acts.
Peter Goodspeed: US politics dominated by ‘wedge issues,’ National Post Mark Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University, notes recent “polls reveal a potentially historic wrinkle: the women’s vote could now be definitively decisive in electing the president.” “For 220 years, picking the president has remained, at least in terms of statistically provable results, a man’s prerogative,” he says. “But this may finally change in 2012. The latest polls suggest another important shift: younger women may be kingmakers — offsetting Romney’s gain among older white men, angry at their fate in this struggling economy.”
Opinion BRIAN HOWEY: The forging of the gender trend line nwitimes.com
Let women win on own merits – party member as Labour announces all-female field Gazette Live “All-women shortlists are one mechanism of achieving this. “Labour has the most successful record of women’s representation in comparison to all other political parties and will always have equality as a core value.”
Labour may produce all female shortlist for Primarolo post This is Bristol LABOUR will put forward an all-women shortlist to replace Bristol South MP Dawn Primarolo, the Post has learned. Members of the party hierarchy voted for the move on a majority at a recent meeting.
Video link Men, suburban voters support Romney msnbc.com
Dem Congresswoman: GOP Congresswomen Are “Battered Women” RealClearPolitics (with Audio) Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) on Ed Schultz’s radio program: ‘And so they are as battered, they are literally battered women in that caucus. Time and again, they’ve been forced to vote against the interests of women and the consequences for not voting with the Republican Party are great…’
Doctored pic of conservative commentator SE Cupp performing oral sex sparks outrage Daily News & Analysis A photoshopped photo in the recent issue of Hustler magazine depicting conservative commentator SE Cupp performing oral sex has sparked outrage among women on the ABC show The View. Whoopi Goldberg, one of the co-hosts of the daytime talk show, said that Cupp, who writes for the New York Daily News, is a “friend of The View, and that the picture in Hustler “is really going to piss a lot of you women off.
Opinion
Former Republican Congresswoman Blasts Modern GOP, Laments Party’s Approach To Women’s Issues ThinkProgress Over her eight terms as a Congresswoman from Maryland’s Eight District, Connie Morella earned a reputation one of the strongest voices for women’s rights and reproductive choice in the Republican Party.
New poll shows rich, white men make up Romney’s base in Ohio Plunderbund …According to the poll, Romney’s base in Ohio are rich, white, tea party and evangelical men in Central Ohio who are only moderately excited to vote.
10 Reasons Obama Would Choose Hillary as VP Huffington Post (blog) The carefully choreographed “War on Women” that hovered over the GOP primary season can be brought back in full force. In April, Obama held a 49 percent share among women, with Romney at 43 percent.
Intersectionality and voting
What Does D’Angelo Have to Do With Voting Rights? Hint: Check His ID ColorLines magazine …First, notice that D’Angelo’s lack of a license or passport didn’t prevent him from boarding the plane. It was only a “challenge,” wrote Amy Wallace. Here’s why this small detail was so interesting to me: Voting rights opponents often argue that you need a photo ID to board a plane, so likewise you should to vote. But as I’ve mentioned before in this blog, and as D’Angelo’s handlers likely realized, you don’t actually need ID to board planes.
