As it refers to all dimensions of life, the sphere of gender equality is difficult to delimit. However, the dimension that affects the largest number of persons is related to labour: how do we work, how much is our work valued, when do we say that it is not valued and how does that relate to our gender? Women and Labour roundtable will try to shed some light on these issues, speaking through several disciplines: economics, law, sociology, and history. Intersecting various approaches, it is our intention to think together about relations between gender and labour; to see what is the connection between production and social reproduction born out mainly by women; how work is legally regulated, and how it is economically deregulated. We want to understand the position of working women in Serbia today and to put it in a historical perspective. Our joint goal is to discuss the role of capitalism in everyday life of our gendered selves, but also to look back at how it was in the era of socialism.

Participants:

Ljubinka Kovačević (Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade),
Marija Jovanović (The Ana and Vlade Divac Foundation),
Nada Sekulić (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade),
Sonja Avlijaš (Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade),
Vera Gudac Dodić (The Institute for Recent History of Serbia).

The panel will be moderated by Adriana Zaharijević and Krisztina Rácz (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade).