16.30-18.00
Opening Session Sala Delle Grida Palazzo della Borsa Via XX Settembre, 41
Registration
Welcome address
Prof. Sandro Pontremoli Rector of the University of Genova
Ms. Stefania Prestigiacomo (to be confirmed) Minister for Equal Opportunities, Italy
Mr. Sandro Biasotti (to be confirmed) President Regione Liguria
Local Authorities
Keynote speaker (to be confirmed)
General information about the conference
Valeria Maione, Chair of the Equal Opportunity Committee, University of Genova
18.00-19.00 Welcome Cocktail

Monday 14 April 2003

Morning session Università degli Studi di Genova Facoltà di Architettura Aula Magna San Salvatore, P.zza Sarzano (Zona Carignano)
9.00-9.30 Registration
Plenary session
9.30-10.00 Against discrimination or for equality . Different approach to anti-discrimination law in Europe.
Prof. Kevat Nousiainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
10.00-10.30 (Title to be confirmed) Prof. Donata Gottardi, University of Verona, Italy
10.30-11.00 New career opportunities for women in higher education in Central Eastern Europe. Prof. Renata Simienska, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair "Women, Society and Development", University of Warsaw, Poland
11.00-11.15 Questions
11.15-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40-12.10 (title to be confirmed) Prof. Renata Livraghi, University of Parma, Italy
12.10-12.40 Gender Equality in Scientific research: what does the European Commission? Prof. Nicole Dewandre, Head of Unit "Women and Science", DG Research European Commission
12.40-12.55 Questions
12.55-14.30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Convento Domenicani Santa Maria di Castello Salita Santa Maria di Castello, 15

Parallel sessions (one for each track) from 14.30 to 18.00

Room 1
TRACK 1: Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Higher Education
Chair: Prof. Joyce Hill and Judith Secker
14.30-15.50: [1.1.] Institutional policies and strategies to promote Gender Equality in HE:
1. Maureen Kilgour (Canada): Achieving Gender Equality for university teachers in HE through the collective bargaining process: the Canadian experience.
2. Sara Hunter (North Ireland, UK): Mainstreaming Gender Equality in HE.
3. Engela Petrorius et. Al (South Africa): Fighting from within: mainstreaming Gender Equality at a South African University.
4. Jenny Neale and David Mackay (New Zealand): Equity, Management and practice.
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-18.00:
5. Christine Hayward (Australia): Anti-discrimination laws in Australia and New South Wales.
6. Leslye Hayes (Australia): Women at the Australian National University.
7. Neal Abraham Meryl Altman (USA): Transforming Institutional culture: programs plus policies.
8. Pamela Agbor et. Al (Cameroon): Experiences in the University of Buea.

Room 2
TRACK 2: Students and the curriculum
Chairs: Prof. Katherina Von Salis and Dr. Irène Hill
14.30-15.50:
[2.1] Women in Science: positive actions
1.Felizitas Sagebiel (Germany): Attracting Women for Enineering: Potentials of interdisciplinary degree courses in Germany.
2. Ganna Gerasymenko (Ukraine): Women among scientists in Ukraine: present state and trends.
3. Claudine Hermann (France): The French association "Women and science" and Gender in HE.
4. Christine Wächter (Austria): Towards a Broader Horizon: inter-disciplinary as attractor for female engineering students in Austria.
5. Eileen Drew and Ms Michelle Gallagher (Ireland): Breaking the mould?: Gender Differences in the study of Science, Engineering and Technology in Ireland.
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-18.00: [2.3] Initiatives to increase gender equity in HE
5. Tania Walloshke Bernd Rammele (Germany): The gender gap in educational media - or can thr mrdia br gapped?
6. Jane Miller and A. Durndell (UK): Gender and Computer-Mediated Communication in Campus-Based Higher Education.
7. Gabrielle Griffin (U.K.): The impact of Women's Studies Training on Women's Employment in Europe: A Comparative Analysis.
8. Smolyar Lyudmyla (Ukraine) Women and Gender Studies Centers: an effective way to Gender Equality in HE.
9. Jane M. Wood (USA): Survivor to Assimilator: the progressive cycle in women's and gender studies students.

Room 3
TRACK 3: Careers in Higher Education: achieving a gender balance
Chair: Dr. Liz Doherty
14.30-15.50: [3.1] Women's position in the HE hierarchy
1. Jerome De Henau and Daniele Meulders (Belgium): The Representation of Women in Research among the University Institutions of the French Community of Belgium.
2. Ann Almegard (Sweden): No Leaky Pipeline in Academic Medicine in Sweden
3. Eva Chernohorszky, Andreas Hollmuller and Peter Gerlich (Austria): The Effect of University Structures on Scientific Career Paths: Empirical Research at Vienna University.
4. Conchita Felix-Corral (Mexico): Storming the Ivory Tower: Academic Women in Science and Technology in Higher Education Institutions in Mexico.
5. Jim Berry and John Chandler (UK) and Elisabeth Berg (Sweden): Gender and the managerial turn in higher education: Biographical accounts from England and Sweden.
16.10-16.40 Coffee Break
16.40-18.00:
6. Ludmila Popkova (Russia): Women's Professional Career in Russian Higher Education: Obstacles and Opportunities.
7. Patricia Barker and Katy Monks (Ireland): Women in Senior Academic Positions: Two Case Studies.
8. Martha Foschi(Canada): Gender and the role of standards in competence assessment experimental research and policy implications.

Room 4
TRACK 4: Continuing Education from a gender perspective
Chairs: Prof. Rosanna Muratori
14.30-15.50
1. Helene Schiffbaenker and Birgit Woitech (Austria): The ICT sector as a challenge for Gender Equality and what HE can contribute.
2. Craig Walters (Ireland): Beating the negative self-esteem barrier, overcoming the "I cant't do it" mentality.
3. Anna Eremeeva (Russia): Teaching gender history in Russia's Universities.
4. Alla Kuvatova (Tajikistan): Some of the aspects of mainstreaming Gender Equality issues in Tajikistan.
15.50-16.20 Coffee break
16.20-18.00
5. Catherine Gerrard(UK): Computer mediated communication- a gateway to learning for women.
6. Daniel Cazés Menache (Mexico): An Experience in Continuing Education on Gender Equality among Men in Latin America.
7. CPO (Coordinamento nazionale)
8. Katy Monks (Ireland): Women -only education: equalising opportunities for the individual and the organisation?

Room 5
TRACK 1: Mainstreaming gender equality in Higher Education
Chair: Dr.Simonetta Manfredi
14.30-15.50:[1.3] Resistance against the promotion of Gneder Equality in HE
1. Felicity Hunt (UK): Mainstreaming Gender Equality: resistance to the promotion of Gender Equality in HE.
2. Barbara Bagihole (UK): One step forward and two steps back: a case study of a strategy to promote Gender Equality in a UK university and the resistance it encountered.
3. Annik Houel (France): Strategies and Resistances in promoting Gender Equality.
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-17.00: [1.1] Institutional policies and strategies to promote gender equality in HE
4. Sigrid Michel (Germany): The Application of Gender-Mainstreaming at the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund.
5. Vannie Naidoo (South Africa): The challenges facing women educators in Higher Education - (a South African perspective).

TRACK 3: Careers in Higher Education: achieving a gender balance
17.00-18.00
Chair: Dr. Liisa Husu
[3.3.] Measures to Improve Women's Representation at Higher Levels in HE
6. Igor Shkolnikov (Russia): Male attitude Towards Women's career in Higher Education.
7. Marlis Mirbach (Germany): Breaking the Glass Ceiling for Female Scientists in the Max-Planck- Society: Strategies and Outcomes
8. Pratibha Ray (India): Walking on a tight rope (Experience based case studies).

Tuesday 15 April 2002

Morning session Università degli Studi di Genova Facoltà di Architettura Aula Magna San Salvatore, P.zza Sarzano (Zona Carignano)
Plenary session
9.30-10.00 UK Mainstreaming a gender perspective in the curricula. Not only an equal opportunity. Prof. Chiara Saraceno, University of Torino, Italy
10-10.30 Facing the challenge in UK Higher Education. Prof. Joyce Hill, Director Higher Education Equality Challenge Unit, UK
10.30-11.00 Three years of Federal Swiss Gender Equality programme for universities: facts and figures. Prof. Maya Widmer, University of Bern, Switzerland
11.00-11.15 Questions
11.15-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40 -12.10 Women's careers in Higher Eucation from a comparative perspective: Italy and the UK. Dr. Valeria Maione, University of Genova, Italy and Dr. Simonetta Manfredi, Oxford Brookes University, UK
12.10-12.40 Positive action on gender at the University of Oxford. Dr. Judith Secker, Deputy Head of Personnel Sercives, University of Oxford, UK
12.40-12.55 Questions
12.55-14.30 lunch

Afternoon session: Convento Domenicani Santa Maria di Castello Salita Santa Maria di Castello, 15
14.30 to 18.00 Parallel sessions (one for each track)

Room 1
TRACK 1: Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Higher Education
Chair: Prof. Joyce Hill and Judith Secker
14.30-15.50: [1.2] Gender perspectives
1. Laura Grunberg (Romania): Is Bologna process gender friendly?
2. Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan (Malaysia): Women empowerment and work performance in the academe: how are they with men?
3. Anissa Lardjane (France): Women Organisation of Mediterranean and European for a democratical Law in the Academic world.
4. Anu Pylkkanen, Karin Ågren (Finland): Promoting Feminist Legal scholarship in the Nordic countries.
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-18.00
5. Andi Sebastian (Australia): Mainstreaming: Competitive advantage or disappearance?
6. Kate White (Australia): Surviving or thriving in academia: women, teaching, research and promotion in Australian universities.
7. Sylwia Bukowska and Evi Genetti (Austria): On the way to Gender Equality in HE: strategies and Experiences in Austria.
8. Prof. Magda Michielsens (Belgium): Mainstreaming Gender Equality at the University: theory and practice.

Room 2
TRACK 2: Students and the curriculum
Chairs: Prof. Katherina Von Salis and Dr. Irène Hill
14.30-15.50: [2.2.] Improving Gender Equality through the theaching and learning environment
1.Corinne Konrad (France): Assessment of the practices of mainstreaming in the HE: the case of the local observatories of the studying life in France.
2. Tove Mattsson and Madelaine Engstrom (Sweden): Students gender-evaluate their education.
3. Simone Biondi (Italy): Students and girl students or psyche without body? Double voices thoughts about a reaffirmation path.
4. Kirsten Gomard and Kirsten Reisbi (Denmark): Barriers and Careers: PhD students in Chemistry and the Humanities.
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-18.00
5. Anna Eremeeva (Russia): Teaching Gender History in Russian universities.
6. Susan Harwood (Western Australia): Mainstreaming Gender Equality through the curriculum.
7. Pirjo Putila and Mari Knuuttila (Finland): Some examples of action to improve gender balance in the department of Electrical and Communications Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology.
8. Glynis Wattus (Australia): Strategic repositioning to achieve gender equity in programs considered non-traditional for women.

Room 3
TRACK 3: Careers in Higher Education: achieving a gender balance
Chair: Dr. Liz Doherty
14.30-15.50: [3.2] Barriers to Women's Progression
1. Collen Chesterman, Margaret Peters and Anne Ross-Smith (Australia): Soaring above the Ceiling: Are the Cultures of Management in Higher Education Altered when Women Reach Senior Management?
2. Michelle Wallace(Australia): Female Academic Managers: Issues of "Becoming" and "Being" in a Changing Tertiary Education Context.
3. Gabriela Delgardo-Ballesteros (Mexico): Giving New Meaning to the Situation of Women Academics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
4. Nina Toren (Israel): The Persistence of Gender Inequality in Academia.
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-18.00
5. Stefanie Ernst (Germany): The Construction of Gender and Leadership; Figurational Approches.
6. M.L.M. Brouns (The Netherlands): Mainstreaming Gender in Quality Assessment.
7. Thora Thorvaldsdottir (Island): Gendered Dimensions in University Evaluation Reports.
8. Simone Berweger (Switzerland): Understanding the gender imbalance in higher academic positions: predictors of the career development of doctoral students.

Room 4
TRACK 3: Careers in Higher Education: achieving a gender balance
Chair: Dr. Simonetta Manfredi
14.30-15.50: [3.3] Measures to Improve Women's Representation at Higher Levels in HE
1. Jutta Dalhoff (Germany): Anstoss zum Aufsteig - Career Strategies for Women in Science.
2. Olga Shnyrova (Russia): Gender Education as Good Practice in Achieving Gender Equality in Higher Education: Russian Experience.
3. Anita Devos (Australia): Mentoring, women and the constitution of academic identities.
4. Marianne Kriszio(Germany): Goal Contracts between Universities and Faculties/Departments Implementation of a New Instrument to achieve Gender Equality in German Universities
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-18.00
5. Nicole Rockliff and Jane Fielding (Greece): "Moving Up", the University of Surrey Athena project.
6. Inken Lind and Andrea Lother (Germany): Gender Differences in Science Careers and Interventions for Women in Higher Education in Germany.
7. Pia Etter (Switzerland): WIN - women into industry, a cross mentoring-program for female (post-)graduate students and post docs
8. Susan Koch, Barbara Lounsberry, Julia Wallace and Beverly Kopper (USA): Phantoms at the Gate: Revisting and Revising Virginia Woolf's "Professions of Women".

Room 5
TRACK 2: Students and the curriculum
Chair: Prof. Rosanna Muratori
14.30-15.50: [2.2.] Improving Gender Equality through the teaching and learning environment
1. Anina Mischau Bettina Langfeld (Germany): Single-sex study-reform concepts at colleges and Universities in Germany -Expectations and Experiences.
2. Alina Zvinkliene (Lituania): Discourse of equality and attitudes towards quotas in academia.
3. Judith Abrahami-Einat (Israel): Crossing traditional boundaries -males and females responding to the study of gender issues.
4. Reghina Dascal (Romania): Gender Studies in Romania: between Subversiveness and Conservatism.
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break

TRACK 5: Tackling Subtle Sexism, Racial Harassment and Bullying in Higher Education
Chairs: Dr. Liisa Husu
16.20-18.00
5. Anne-MarieMorhed Fredrik BondestamGunilla Carstensen (Sweden): Exploring the Dinamics of Sexual Harassment in Swedish Accademia
6. Gunilla Carstensen (Sweden): After all he never tried to rape her -women PhD- canidates understandings and strategies when dealing with experiences of sexual harassment.
7. James W. Messerschmidt (USA): College athletes, masculinities, and varieties of violence against women.
8. Karen Ross (UK): Tackling Subtle Sexism, Sexual, Racial Harassment and Bullying in HE and video.
20.00: Conference Dinner

Wednesday 16 April 2003

Morning session Università degli Studi di Genova Facoltà di Architettura Aula Magna San Salvatore, P.zza Sarzano (Zona Carignano)
Plenary session
9.30-10.00 The problem of Socio-cultural Cloning: (White) Masculinities, Preference for Sameness and durable Inequalities in Higher Education. Philomena Essed, University of Amsterdam, University of California, Irvine
10.00-11.00 Feedback from the Chairs of the tracks
Debate
11.00-11.20 Coffee Break
11.20- 12.40 Round table discussion and questions (participants: Prof. Laura Balbo, Prof. Melina Decaro, Prof. Ginevra Conti Odorisio to be confirmed)
12.40-13.10 Proposals for IV Conference, chaired by Prof. Katherina Von Salis , Dr. Liisa Husu and Dr.Valeria Maione