Advance or Regression? Gender balance and the crisis in Greece
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Speaker
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Professor Antigone Lyberaki, Professor of Economics, Panteion University; Visiting Professor, Hellenic Observatory
Dr Platon Tinios, Assistant Professor at Piraeus University; Visiting Senior Fellow, Hellenic Observatory;
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Chair
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Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis
Associate Professor in the Political Economy of South East Europe, LSE
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Date
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016
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Venue
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Cañada Blanch Room, COW 1.11, 1st floor, Cowdray House
European Institute, LSE
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Time
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18:00-19:30
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Poster
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This research seminar will draw on the results of 'The Crisis and Gender' project, part of the 2014 National Bank of Greece Research Call.
Abstract
Gender inequality represents a major waste of economic and social potential, which was particularly marked in Greece. Can the protracted crisis unlock this potential, or may it lead to regression?
A crisis produces deep economic, social, political and cultural discontinuities. It is certain that the exit point– whenever that will be – will find a gender situation very different from what held a decade ago. The extent or even the direction of change cannot be known a priori. Theoretical arguments or historical precedents can support either an expectation of levelling of inequalities, or one of deterioration. What will ultimately transpire is, thus, an empirical question of how countervailing tendencies play out. Equally though, the outcome is not independent of political agency. An important precondition is to overcome ‘gender blindness’, that is not to hide inequities away in ostensibly ‘gender neutral’ generalisations.
This presentation benchmarks and overviews gender balance developments in four key areas: Labour markets, poverty, retirement, time use. The key finding is that, while women are playing more active roles, gender perceptions may be lagging. Take-home lessons are that, in order to prevent backtracking in gender balance, four risk areas should be addressed: the future of the small enterprise; women near retirement age; the care nexus; atavistic views of the identity of the primary breadwinner; the influence of new patterns of emigration.
Biographies
Professor Antigone G. Lyberaki is Professor of Economics at Panteion University in Athens, Greece. She received her Ph.D. from Sussex University and her M.Phil. from the Institute of development Studies (IDS) at Sussex. She works on migration, feminist economics, family businesses, labour market and ageing and she is the Country Team Leader for Greece in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). She was also an MP for To Potami from January to September 2015, as well as representative of the Greek Parliament in the Council of Europe (PACE) over the same period. She is the author of 10 books and has contributed chapters in many edited volumes. She has authored and co-authored numerous papers in academic journals in English and in Greek. Professor Lyberaki joined the HO as Visiting Professor from January until September 2016.
Dr Platon Tinios is Assistant Professor at the University of Piraeus. He studied at the Universities of Cambridge (M.A. Ph.D.) and Oxford (M.Phil). He served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004, specializing in the economic analysis of social policy and especially pensions. He was a member of the EU Social Protection Committee from 2000 to 2004. He has also worked as an economic adviser at the Ministries of National Economy and Health and Social Security. His research interests include pensions, ageing populations, social policy, gender, labour economics and public finance. Dr Tinios joined the HO as Visiting Senior Fellow from September 2015 to September 2016.
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