March 8-9, 2012
Gerlinger Lounge and Knight Law Center
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

Feminist theory criticizes capitalism for devaluing women’s work, ignoring women’s unpaid labor, and oppressing women. This symposium focuses on women’s economic status and equality as a key component of human and civil rights in capitalist societies.

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Symposium Topics

• Is gender equality possible under capitalism?
• Development and women’s rights in India and China
• The crisis of care labor and family leave policies
• Women, low-wage work and the future of women’s work
• Gender, culture and capitalism
• Alternatives and new approaches to capitalist development

Featured Speakers

	Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst Folbre is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and she has consulted for the United Nations Human Development Office and the World Bank.
	Barbara Pocock, University of South Australia Pocock is director of the Centre for Work + Life at the University of South Australia. Professor Pocock will be in residence at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics during February and March 2012.
	Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto Alissa Trotz is an associate professor in Women & Gender Studies and director of the Caribbean Studies Program at New College, the University of Toronto. She is also a member of Red Thread, a women's organization in Guyana which co-ordinates the Global Women's Strike locally.