Indian and foreign scholars and policymakers would converge here on November 12 to 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.
The meet would also feature a presentation on the Centre’s high-level committee report on the status of women in India, and a roundtable on Kerala’s policy for transgenders.
