*Any amendments will be added to the final timetable, available on registration* General Stream (A) Lower Level, Keele Hall restaurant Wednesday 27th June Session 1: Workplace relationships `Gender and Identity: A Case Study from Northeast India’ Indira Barua, Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University Assam, India `‘She’s my best friend’: identifications, associations and friendship between gay men and straight women at work’ Nick Rumens, Department of Management, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK `Gender and Trust in Patient-Practitioner Relationships’ Mary FitzPatrick, Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand Session 2: Leadership `Leadership aspirations and expectations in Malaysian middle managers’ Uma D. Jogulu & Glenice Wood, School of Business, Uni. of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia `Gendered champions of a gender cause’ Jennifer de Vries, Dept. of Economics and Commerce, University of Western Australia `Women in the top echelon of organisations: A Concrete Roof in Cyprus’ Maria Krambia Kapardis, Department of Applied Accounting, Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus Session 3: Entrepreneurship `Sensitising Female Entrepreneurs: the Use of Gender and Diversity Management Approaches in Entrepreneurship Education at German Universities’ Ilona Ebbers & Claudia Kramer-Gerdes, Universitat Hildesheim, Germany `What is problematic with entrepreneurship as an organisational ideal?’ Susanne Andersson, Centre for Gender Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden Session 4: Women in management (Session chair: Jen de Vries) `The Importance of Female Role Models for Senior Women in Varying Organisational Demographic Contexts – the Diversity Directors’ Views’ Ruth Sealy, School of Management, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK `German Women Executives in Middle- and Top-Management Report About Their Still Existing Career Barriers: Results of an Empirical Study of 300 Women Managers’ Lotte Habermann-Horstmeier, STZ Unternehmen & Führungskräfte, Germany; & Kathrin Albrecht, Bettina Braun, Eva Ganter, Maria Thierer, Frtwangen University, International Business Faculty, Germany `The Cumulative Approach to Management Development and the Advancement of Women: Developmental Activities and the Barriers Along the Way’ Janet Bell Crawford, School of Business, Saint Mary’s Uni., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Thursday 28th June Session 5: Part-time work `Part-Time of What? Job Quality and Part-Time Employment in the Legal Profession in Australia’ Jenny Malone, Iain Campbell & Sara Charlesworth, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia `Policing, gender and working time: The case of the part-time detective’ Sara Charlesworth & Kerri Whittenbury, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia; Mark Keen, Victoria Police Force, Australia `Men who changed their work-life priorities - 30 years after’ Margunn Bjørnholt, Dept Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway Session 6: Men and Care `Masculine Identities and Affective Equality; the role of love and care in men’s lives’ Niall Hanlon, School of Social Justice, University College, Dublin, Ireland `Don’t Men Care? ‘Hegemonic Masculinity’, Care-giving Practices & the Emotional (Psycho-social) Subject – The Case of Male Student Nurses’ James Milton, University of Liverpool, School of Sociology and Social Policy, Liverpool UK `Men and childcare: towards gender equality? Practices, participation and policies’ Elizabeth Fox, Gillian Pascall, Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK & Tracey Warren, Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK Session 7: Age ``Three Different Eras, Three Different Outcomes’: Generational Change Amongst Women Managers’ Leonie Still, Graduate School of Management, University of Western Australia, Australia `Gender and Age as Mobility Factors in Ukrainian Science and Employment’ Tetiana Tarasenko, Dept of Economics, National University, Ukraine & Olena Prykhodko, Dept of Cultural Studies, University of Bremen, Germany `Women’s Lifestyle Choices: An Intergenerational Approach’ Christiana Ierodiakonou, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Session 8: Resistance `Gendered Restructuring and Gendered Resistance: The formation of Women-Only Trade Unions in South Korea after the Economic Crisis in 1997-98’ Jinock Lee, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK `“That’s enough” Servicewomen’s Resistance to Sexual Harassment in the UK Armed Forces’ Sarah Rutherford, Rutherford Consulting, Madrid Road, London UK `Reporting gendered violence: women, men and homicide in the British press’ Mercy Nyawanza, Criminology, Coventry University, UK Friday 29th June Session 9: Diversity (Session chair: Glenice Wood) `Diversity: An opportunity to progress gender equality in the UK?’ Dalia Ben-Galim, Department of Social Policy & Social Work, University of Oxford, UK `What does diversity management mean for the gender equality project? Views and experiences of multiple organizational actors’ Gill Kirton, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, UK & Anne-Marie Greene, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Session 10: Technology `Engendering Information Technology - Leadership Relation in e-Government: A Perspective of Cyberfeminism’ Lichun Chiang, Dept Political Science, National Cheng Kung Uni., Tainan, Taiwan & Wen-chun Chen, Humanities & Social Science, Fooyin University, Kaoshiung, Taiwan `Gendered Processes of Leaving the ICT Industry: Co-Producing and Understanding `Significant Events’’ Beryl Burns, Marie Griffiths & Karenza Moore, Information Technology Institute, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK `How do Women Handle Time Problems in Computer Programming Culture: A Case Study on Women Software Developers in Turkey’ Betül Ertem Yıldız, Science and Technology Policy Studies, Middle East Technical University, Umraniye, Istanbul, Turkey Session 11: Public sector employment `Opinions and practices about the Romanian management of the employees – A Case Study’ Valentina Marinescu, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Uni. of Bucharest, Romania `Corruption and Gender Balance in Political Representation: Are Women less Corrupt?’ Londa Esadze, Global Organization of Parliamentarians, GOPAC, Tbilisi Uni, Georgia `Professional women and intra-household dynamics:A case study of Ile-Ife and Lagos, Nigeria.’ Caroline Okumdi Muoghalu, Social Policy Studies, Oau, Ile-Ife, Nigeria General Stream (B) Terrace Restaurant Session 1: Careers `Employment policies, family policies and teaching careers: a comparison between England, France and Spain’ Julie Jarty & Marie-Pierre Moreau, Université de Toulouse le Mirail, Equipe Sagesse, France `Consequences of career interruptions’ Amelia Román, OSA Institute for Labour Studies Tilburg, the Netherlands, & J.J. Schippers, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht, the Netherlands `Making Sense of Female Managers: the Interplay between Gender, Identity and Career’ Piia Lepistö-Johansson, Lappeenranta Uni of Technology, Dept of Business Admin, Finland Session 2: Careers (contd.) `Barriers to women’s career success in the accountancy and medical professions in the UK’ Rosemary Crompton & Clare Lyonette, Dept. of Sociology, City University, London, UK ‘Career prospects for women managers in Taiwan: Differences between the public and private sectors.’ Patricia Fosh, Wen-Chi Chou & Debbie Foster, University of Bristol, UK `Becoming a Manager - In the Tensions between Gendered Practices in Career and Management development’ Sophie Linghag, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden WITHDRAWN 7.5.07 Session 3: `Alternative’ organisations `Towards a more gender conscious and gender acting organization?’ Ewa Gunnarsson Department of Work Science, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden `Risky Business: gambling for the status quo’ Rhonda Pyper & Albert Mills, St. Mary’s University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada `Feminist Organizations as Workplaces’ Cynthia Deitch, George Washington Uni. Women’s Studies Program, Washington DC, USA Session 4: Gender and organisational culture (Session Chair - Glenice Wood) `Women in Media: Creative inequality?’ Rosaria Gracia, School of Social, Media and Cultural Studies, Uni. of East London, UK `Practices of North West engineering industry: leaving women engineers in an abyss of despair’ Sunrita Dhar-Bhattacharjee, Haifa Takruri-Rizk, Natalie Sappleton, Lisa Worrall, Rae Bezer Salford University School of Computing, Science & Engineering, University of Salford, UK `Gendered Organisational cultures for Women Engineers in Europe. Results from the European Projects WomEng and PROMETEA’ Felizitas Sagebiel, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Wuppertal, Germany Session 5: The labour process `Gender and Racial Relations in the Migrant Labour Market in South Korea’ Julia Jiwon SHIN, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK `Feminization, Masculinization and Flexibility: Exploring the gendered Labour process in Jewellery Production in India’ Urvashi Soni-Sinha, Women’s Studies, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada `Gender pay equity reform in Australia: Contradiction and Labour Market Flexibility’ Meg Smith, School of Management, University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia Session 6: Pedagogy `Consequences of a learning management system’ Brita Gjerstad, International Research Institute of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway `Restricted access to the promised land: an action-based aesthetic investigation