Gender-Based Analysis and Gender Budgeting for Equality,Inclusion, Development, and Democracy

Gender-based Analysis and Gender Budgeting for Equality,Inclusion, Development, and Democracy

Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s, Gender Studies, the Faculty of Law,

and the Principal’s Development Fund, Queen’s University

Registration:

Friday, Mar. 10, 2017

11:30 Registration and lunch –Robert Sutherland Hall, Policy Studies,

138 Union St.,Kingston, Ont., room 202(conference room, main floor)

12:30Welcome and introduction to goals of conference

Bita Amani, Faculty of Law and Co-Director, Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s,

Queen’s University

Kathleen Lahey, Faculty of Law and Co-Director, Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s, Queen’s University

1:00Keynote address: Yamini Mishra, UN Women Regional Gender Planning and Budgeting Specialist for the Asia Pacific Region of UN Women, and

Queen’s University Principal’s Development Fund International Visitor –

‘What does Feminism have to do with Budgets?’

2:30Break

2:45Panel I CEDAW, Aboriginal Women, Step Up, Gender Budgeting and

Gender-based Analysis for Equality

Diana Sarosi, Women's Rights Policy and Advocacy Specialist, Oxfam Canada,

‘The Role of Civil Society in Gender Budgeting’

Angela Cameron, FAFIA, ‘Submissions to CEDAW regarding Canada’s Obligations to Women’

Lara Koerner-Yeo, FAFIA, ‘Drafting FAFIA’s Submissions to CEDAW, and the CEDAW Canada Inquiry Report on Aboriginal Women’

4:15Panel II Gender Mainstreaming, #LawNeedsFeminismBecause, and

GBA of Trump Immigration Policies

Jessica Gosselin, ‘Gender Mainstreaming and the Quebec Great North Development Project’

Rachel Kohut, JD Candidate, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal,

and National Lead, #LawNeedsFeminismBecause’

‘Gender-Based Analysis: Why is it not so evident in Maternal Health Care

Policy?’

Sharry Aiken, Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston,

‘Trump Immigration Policies’

6:00Dinnerand evening program

Beth Atcheson, ‘GBA for Canada – Is it Finally Happening?’

Senator Nancy Ruth, ‘Winning GBA for Canada, with Q&A’

Saturday, March 11, 2015

9.00Registration -- Robert Sutherland Hall, Policy Studies, 138 Union St.,

Kingston, Ont., room 202 (main floor) –coffee, tea, and muffins

9:30Panel III Gender Analysis in Pay Equity Programs:

Pay Equity for Care Workers in Canada

Emanuela Heyninck, Commissioner, Ontario Pay Equity Commission,

‘The Proxy Comparison Method: Ontario's Experience in Valuing the

Care-giving Sectors’

Vallie Stearns Anderson, Chair, Coalition for Pay Equity of New Brunswick,

‘Pay Equity Promises in New Brunswick: Hope for the Care-giving Sector?’

10:45Break

11:00Panel IV GBA+ of Everything: From Constitutions to PropertyTax

Classificationsof Childcare Facilities and Indigenous

Women’s Traditional Knowledge Rights

Beverley Baines, Professor, Faculty of Law, and former Head, Department of Gender Studies, Queen’s University,

‘A Gender-based Analysis of Canada’s Constitution’

Dr. Kerri Froc and Colleen Schmidt,

‘Taxation of Licensed Day Cares in Regina: Gender-based Analysis’

Bita Amani, Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University,

‘Indigenous Women’s Traditional Knowledge Rights’

12.30Lunch

1:30Panel V GBA+ Case Studies: Violence against Nonheterosexual Women, Economic Exploitation of Women through Dowry

Kuukuwa Andam, PhD Student, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, and

former Law Clerk, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghaha,

‘Giving the Chicken Water: Eradicating Mob Attacks on Women in Ghana’

Farah Deeba Chowdhury, Scholar in Residence, Global Labour Research

Centre, York University, former Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh,

‘Islam, Gender Equality, and Dowry in Bangladesh’

2:30Break

2:45Panel VI Women in the Military, and Focusing GBA + on the Future

Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky, Assistant Professor, Political Studies, and Director, Centre for International and Defence Policy,Queen’s University,

‘Gender Mainstreaming in the Military and NATO’

Linda Mussell, PhD Student, Political Studies, Queen’s University, and

Dr. Olena Hankivsky, Professor, Public Policy, Simon Fraser University,

‘The GRB+ Women Want’

Wrapup and networking plan

Queen's University sits on the traditional lands of
the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples