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Imagining Public Policy to Meet Women’s Economic Security Needs

This is a notice of a conference on women and public policy to be held in Vancouver on October 13 to the 15th, 2005. Details can be found on the conference website.

The conference is sponsored by the Economic Security Project, a multi-year research initiative funded by the SSHRC-Community-University Research Alliance grant. The principle partners in this alliance are the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - BC and the Women’s Studies Department at Simon Fraser University.

The Economic Security Project looks at three major areas to understand the changes in public policy and their implications for vulnerable populations. The three major areas are:

  1. employment standards and barriers to labour market participation;
  2. welfare and social policy reform, and;
  3. the restructuring of community-based health-care.

The intent of the conference will be to “imagine” and analyze effective public policy as it pertains to women, in each of these areas. While some critique of existing policy will certainly occur, the main point will be to try to advance a progressive agenda for the future.

The Economic Security Project has public policy in British Columbia as its primary focus, but the conference particularly welcomes the participation of others in Canada and other countries.