Workshop on “Gender dimensions of paid and unpaid work in China and India”, Kunming, China 26-28 September 2014, organised by Economic Research Foundation, New Delhi and Tsinghua University, Beijing, with support from Ford Foundation.
A
conference bringing together feminist economists from China and
India was successfully organised in November 2013 in New Delhi,
India. It provided a forum for very interesting discussions that
covered a wide range of issues and laid the basis for future collaborative
work. Building on that experience, it was felt that there is scope
for further and more detailed comparative investigations in specific
areas. One issue that proved to be of great interest was that
of gendered employment patterns. This is an area where there are
strong differences across the two countries, but also sufficient
similarities to make the comparison of trends worthwhile.
To specifically examine the gender-specific patterns of paid and
unpaid work in China and India, Economic Research Foundation in
collaboration with Tsinghua University, Beijing, organised a workshop
in Kunming, China over 26-28 September 2014,
with support from Ford Foundation.
Some of the themes that were covered in the workshop are:
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macroeconomic processes and women's employment
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changes in work force participation rates;
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women workers in agriculture;
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informality and women's work;
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women workers in export-oriented manufacturing;
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outsourcing, value chains and female workers
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old and new services as employers of women;
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conditions of women workers in public versus private employment;
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the care economy and unpaid work.
The programme of the workshop is as follows:
Friday, 26 September, 2014
Opening Session: 9:00-9:30 am
Welcome: Jayati Ghosh
Introductory Address: Zhou Wen
Session 1: 9:30 – 10:30 am- The macroeconomic context
of employment trends
Chair: Andong Zhu
C.P. Chandrasekhar – On some determinants of the level, growth
and quality of employment.
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Comments- Andong Zhu
Session 2: 10:45 am -12:30 pm- Recent employment trends
Chair: Devaki Jain
Xiao-yuan Dong - Trade liberalisation, social policy development
and Chinese women's paid work in the decade after Chinas accession
to the WTO.
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Ritu Dewan – Gender, globalisation and trade.
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Session
3: 1:30– 3:00 pm- The macroeconomics of women's work
Chair: Xiao-yuan Dong
Chirashree Dasgupta: Macroeconomic processes, gender and labour
in India.
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Jayati Ghosh - Why is women's workforce participation declining
in such different economies as India and China?
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Session 4: 3:15- 4:45 pm- The recognition and valuation
of women's work
Chair: Shen Youjia
Feng Yuan – Valuation and devaluation of women's work- unanswered
questions.
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Indira Hirway: Integrating unpaid work into macroeconomics.
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Session
5: 4:45 - 6:15 pm- Women workers and time use in agriculture
Chair: Wei Zhang
Liqin Zhang - The impact of care-giving of rural women on agricultural
production.
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Sanchari Roy Mukherjee: Wage determination and wage discrimination
in the tea plantation sector in India.
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Saturday,
27 September, 2014
Session 6: 9:00– 10:30 am- Informality and women's work
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Chair: Zhun Xu
Fan Lulu - The non-precariat in the informal sector: a study
of female-led cooperative production team in garment industry
of China.
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Smita Gupta - Home based work of women: a study in the unorganised
sector in Delhi.
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Session 7: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm- Informality and women's
work –2
Chair: Nirmala Banerjee
Liangshu Qi - Time poverty in China: measurement and policy
assessment.
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Vibhuti Patel - Informality and feminisation of urban poverty
in India.
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Session 8: 1:30- 3:30 pm- Unpaid work and the care economy
Chair: Indira Hirway
Shen Youjia - Crisis of care and the mechanism of distribution
of care burden.
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Lan Liu - Unpaid care and labor supply of middle-aged men and
women in urban China.
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Subhalakshmi Nandi - The unpaid work discourse from a feminist
lens: reflections on power, politics and policy from the global
south.
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Session 9: 3:45 to 5:15 pm- Changing employment patterns
and gender gaps
Chair: Ge Yuhao
Li Qin - Industrial transfer, migrants flow and wage difference.
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Neetha Pillai - Of segmentation, marginalisation and exclusion:
sectoral dimensions of women's employment in India's service
economy.
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Sunday, 28 September, 2014
Session 10: 9:00 to 10:30am- Gender discrimination in
public and private employment
Chair: Jayati Ghosh
Yuhao Ge – Gender discrimination in college graduates' labour
market.
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Indrani Mazumdar – Of rights as workers: women in public services.
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Session 11: 10:45 – 12:15 pm- Organising women workers
Chair: Weiwei Ren
Jing Liu - Will trade unions help to reduce the gender wage
gap and discrimination in China?
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Sujata Gothoskar – Women workers organising in the current context.
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Session 12: 12:15-1:30 pm- Open Discussion, Closing
Remarks and Plans for the future.