Second International PROMETEA Conference

 
 


The scientific and technological careers of women and men

Private temporalities, professional temporalities; public and corporate policies

November 26-27, 2009

Maison de l'UNESCO

75006 Paris
France

 

In the wake of the 2007 International PROMETEA conference, the participants expressed the desire to reflect on the question of the scientific and technological careers of women and to pursue the dialogue between Human and Social Sciences on the one hand, and the preoccupations and reality of corporate life on the other hand.

The 2009 Prometea conference will attempt to meet this demand:

  1. To create opportunities of exchange between researchers in HSS and corporate managers
  2. To take stock of the situation of women in these jobs and evaluate the impact of public policies and of new corporate practices on their careers: more flexibility, development of teleworking, blurring of the border line between private life and work, gender-neutral parental leaves, day care services .
  3. To encourage the emergence of new social models better adapted to the reality of contemporary social life. Also to consider new paths for men in order to make all jobs and functions equally accessible to women and me

Three main topics will be discussed:

  1. Changes in society: global context, social welfare, respective responsibilities of the State and companies , evolution of societal models and of human resource policies, the economic consequences of these choices.
  2. Temporalities: new concepts and management of work time, articulation of professional, personal and family life and clash between these temporalities which are particularly discriminatory against women.
  3. The actual situation in companies: status quo, high stakes, policies enforced, evaluation of these policies (success, obstacles), business case.

 

Submission of papers

The researchers who intend to present an oral communication (around 10 minutes) are invited to send on line to the Scientific Committee a 5000-sign abstract before April 15th, 2009. This abstract will include, apart from the description of the content of the study, information about the methodology used and some bibliographical references. All researchers concerned will be told before June 30th, 2009 whether their proposal has been selected. Then the full papers will have to be sent to the Scientific Committee before October 1st, 2009.

Submission of posters

The researchers who wish to present a poster are invited to submit a short description of the poster (one page at the most), using the form provided on line. The deadlines are the same as for oral presentations (see above).

Proceedings will be published after the conference; authors of accepted papers will be invited to send a full paper.

Conference languages are English and French.

Calendar

Deadline for sending a proposal: May 15th, 2009
Notification of the Scientific Committee's decisions: June 30th, 2009
Deadline for sending the full papers: October 1st, 2009

Scientific Committee

President : Professor Danièle Meulders (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique)
  • Prof. Dominique Anxo (University of Vaxjo, Suède)
  • Dr. Peter Auer (OIT) (Suisse)
  • Prof. Barbara Bergmann (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Prof. Daniela Del Boca (University of Torino, Italie)
  • Prof. Jeff Hearn (Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland and Linköping University, Suède)
  • Dr Liisa Husu (Hanken Economics School, Finlande)
  • Prof. Alfredo Hualde (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexique)
  • Prof. Suzanne Lacroix (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal et Chaire Marianne-Mareschal, Canada)
  • Prof. Nicky Lefeuvre (Université de Lausanne, Suisse)
  • Prof. Danièle Meulders (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique)
  • Dr Françoise Milewski (OFCE, France)
  • Dr Hélène Perivier (OFCE, France)
  • Dr. Marie-José Potvin (Canadian Space Agency, Canada)
  • Prof. Jill Rubery (Univ de Manchester, UMIST, UK)
  • Prof. Nina Smith (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
  • Dr. Eva Vamos (Hungarian Museum of Science and Technology, Hongrie)
  • Prof. Paola Villa (University of Trento, Italie)
  • Dr. Catherine Weinberger (University of California, USA)

Organising Committee

  • President : Yvonne Pourrat (CDEFI, France)
  • André Béraud (INSA de Lyon, ECEPIE, France)
  • Christine Cluzel (IBM, France)
  • Marie-Jo Delord (ECEPIE, France)
  • Anne-Sophie Godfroy-Genin (ENS Cachan, France)
  • Nydia Gonzalez (E. Centrale de Paris, France)
  • Catherine Grandcoing (CNAM, France)
  • Claudine Hermann (E. Polytechnique, Femmes et Sciences and EPWS, France)
  • Danièle Meulders (ULB, Belgium)
  • Jacques-Henri Strauss (AVRIST, France)