Gendered Familial Care Work
and
Public Health Crises
Conference
July 20-23, 2021
Open and free to the public. Conference program schedule here.
This (online) multi-disciplinary conference aims to foster dialogue about the connection between public health crises and the gendered caregiving obligations of women and girls in the context of low and lower middle-income countries. The conference presentations will examine the public health, ethical, and political significance of fragmented and under-resourced national health systems on the gendered familial care work responsibilities of women and girls from low-income households. A central theme of the conference will be the need of state actors and non-state actors (within nations and internationally) to support and bring about structural, systemic changes that will improve the lives of women and girls from low-income households. The larger goal of the conference is to foster conversation between researchers, practitioners, and activists from a variety of contexts and fields who are concerned about those issues.
Plenary speakers are as followers:
- Madhumita Dobe
https://www.seejph.com/index.php/seejph/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/54 - Nancy Folbre
https://peri.umass.edu/economists/nancy-folbre
- Eva Feder Kittay
https://evafederkittay.com/ - Juliet Nabyonga-Orem
https://www.africahealthpot.org/profilesingle.php?id=1 - Colleen O’Manique
https://www.trentu.ca/ids/faculty-research/colleen-omanique
The conference is sponsored by the University of Rhode Island.
Questions about the conference should be sent to gender-health-conference@etal.uri.edu
Conference organizer: Zahra Meghani, Philosophy Department, University of Rhode Island. http://web.uri.edu/philosophy/meet/zahra-meghani/
Be social, spread the word, please use our conference hashtag –
#genderedfamilialcare