IN-EAST News
17.08.2010 - 00:00
Estévez-Abe lectures on Gender and Vocational Training
August 25, 2010 at 11 a.m. in LE 502
Prof. Estévez-Abe, current guest professor of the Research Training Group Risk and East Asia (DFG Graduiertenkolleg 1613), will hold a lecture on
"Gender and Vocational Training"
on Wednesday, August 25, 2010
in LE 502, Campus Duisburg,
at 11 a.m.
Abstract:
"Educational systems and labor markets types are not gender-neutral. As I have argued elsewhere (Estévez-Abe 2005, 2006), those systems where employers are involved in human capital formation are more likely to exacerbate statistical discrimination in the labor market. Countries with dual systems - such as Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland - fall into this category of human capital formation systems. Have the recent economic changes and related changes in the educational and vocational training systems affected the underlying gender dynamics? Are women better off today? My talks attempts at providing some preliminary answers to this questions."
Margarita Estévez-Abe teaches political science at Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University (NY) and works in the sub-field of political science called comparative political economy of advanced industrial countries. Prof. Estévez-Abe has been introduced in our news when she came here in June. She will stay with us until the end of the month.
Please refer to her personal website and her CV for more information:
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/mestev02/
pdf-download of her CV (as of 2009)
She can be reached at: mestev02@maxwell.syr.edu
Her work so far has dealt with two different topics – Japanese political economy, and comparative political economy of gender –, but always using a similar approach. A much praised book amongst her publications is on “Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan …" (Cambridge University Press 2008).
Please click here for a pdf-download of some information on her book and a small choice of titles of her publications: https://www.uni-due.de/in-east_former_website/fileadmin/news/Estevez-Abe_Lecture-Gender_25-08-2010.pdf