Indian and foreign scholars and policymakers would converge here on November 12 to discuss and forge new perspectives on women’s employment, governance, and sexual rights at the three-day International Conference on Gender Equality (ICGE) 2015.
The conference, being organised by the Gender Park, under the State government’s Department of Social Justice, in partnership with UN Women, would feature who’s who in the field of gender studies and activism, including Naila Kabeer from the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, legal scholar and author Flavia Agnes, activist and dancer Mallika Sarabhai, and former President and CEO of America’s Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Pat Mitchell.
Prof. Kabeer will kick off the event with a keynote address on the conference theme ‘Gender, Governance and Inclusion.’
Status of women
The three-day conference would also feature a presentation on the Central government’s high-level committee report on the status of women in India, a roundtable on Kerala’s policy for transgenders in view of the Supreme Court’s April 2014 ruling for equality for the third gender. There would also be sessions on child sex ratio concerns, migration from Kerala, women’s participation in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, caste and ethnicities, women in governance and entrepreneurship, and the masculine response to gender equality and justice.
