Third Workshop

FAMILY, WORK AND WELFARE IN PAST AND PRESENT:
A Transatlantic Workshop

Friday, November 10, and Saturday, November 11, 2006
Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for
Arts & Humanities
Hyde Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3322

Juggling work and family commitments is a major challenge for both
parents and governments. Balancing work and family is also a highly
gendered problem. Despite much rhetoric about equal sharing of parental
obligations, today's women are primarily responsible for the children.
Women often have more difficulties combining a professional career and
caring for children than men. One consequence of this dilemma is that
an increasing number of women in post-industrialized Western states on
both sides of the Atlantic make the decision to have only one child or
no child at all. The birthrates in almost all of these countries are
below levels necessary for maintaining current population levels. They
are so low in some countries, notably the Mediterranean countries, that
a major crisis in their pension systems and welfare states as a whole
looms. State welfare, family, population, and gender are therefore
closely related. The workshop aims to analyze these issues from a
comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, political
scientists and sociologists will compare historical and contemporary
developments in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and North America and
will discuss the possibilities for a future-oriented welfare state
policy that helps families balance work and home life.

Friday, November 10, 2006

PUBLIC LECTURE, 5:00 - 6:30 PM

Jane Jenson (Universit? de Montr?al, D?partement de science politique):
States, Markets, Families: Gender and Welfare in International Comparison

Chair: Evelyn Huber (UNC at Chapel Hill, Department of Political Sciences)

Saturday, November 11, 2006

WORKSHOP, 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

8:30 - 9:00 am: Welcome Coffee

9:00 - 9:15 am: Welcome and Introduction

9:15 - 11:15 am: Family, Work and Welfare - Historical Perspectives

Mary Daly (Queens University Belfast, School of Sociology, Social
Policy and Social Work): Work, Family and the History of the European
Welfare States

Sonya Michel (University of Maryland, Department of History and Center
for American Studies): The Politics of Maternity, the Family and the
Role of Women in the Development of the American Welfare State

Commentator: Janet C. Gornick (City University of New York, Graduate
Center and at Baruch College)
Chair: Karen Hagemann (UNC at Chapel Hill, Department of History)

11:30 am - 1:30 pm: Family, Work and Welfare - Comparative Contemporary
Perspectives

Janet C. Gornick (Baruch College): Institutions that Support Gender
Egalitarianism in Parenthood and Employment

Jill Massino (Bowdoin College):
Gender, the Family and Welfare in Eastern Europe

Christiane Lemke (University of Hanover):
Combining Work and Family - Policies of the EU

Commentator: Mary Daly (Queens University Belfast, School of Sociology,
Social Policy and Social Work) Chair: Chad Bryant (UNC at Chapel Hill,
Department of History)

2:30 - 4:30 pm: Family, Work and Fertility - A Major Problem of
Contemporary Welfare States

S. Philip Morgan (Duke University, Department of Sociology):
Welfare, Family and Population Policy

Barbara Hobson (University of Stockholm, Department of Sociology):
Women, Family Policy and Fertility in a Comparative Perspective

Commentator: Janet C. Gornick (City University of New York, Graduate
Center and at Baruch College) Chair: Jacquelyn Hall (UNC at Chapel
Hill, Department of History)

4:45 - 5:30 pm: Final Comments: Family, Work and Welfare in Comparison
- Consequences for the Future

Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia University, Department of History)
Christiane Lemke (University of Hanover)

Chair: John Stephens (UNC at Chapel Hill, Department of Political Sciences)

No registration necessary

For more information about the workshop and the workshopseries see:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/europe/conferences/gender/

For directions to the UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities in Hyde Hall see:
http://iah.unc.edu/directions/

Parking:
There are two visitor lots with easy access to the UNC Institute for
Arts and Humanities in Hyde Hall. The first is the Morehead Lot in
front of the Planetarium, which is accessible from Franklin St. The
Second is the Swain Lot, which is accessible from Cameron Ave near the
intersection with South Columbia St.

Conveners:

- Carolina Women's Center
- Center for European Studies
- Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
- Curriculum in Women's Studies
- Department of History
- Department of Political Sciences
- Graduate School
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Organizers :

- Chad Bryant (UNC at Chapel Hill, Department of History)
- Karen Hagemann (UNC at Chapel Hill, Department of History)
- Evelyn Huber (UNC at Chapel Hill, Department of Political Sciences)
- John Stephens (UNC at Chapel Hill, Department of Political Sciences)
in cooperation with
- Asiya Alam (UNC at Chapel Hill)
- Jennifer M. Donally (UNC at Chapel Hill)
- Laurence Hare, cand. phil. (UNC at Chapel Hill)
- Jennifer Lynn (UNC at Chapel Hill)
- Michael Mulvey, M.A. (UNC at Chapel Hill)
- Sarah Summers (UNC at Chapel Hill)

Contact:

Karen Hagemann
James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
History Department
Hamilton Hall, CB # 3195
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3195, USA
Email: hagemann@unc.edu