The Trouble with Women - inaugural lecture from Professor Jacqueline O'Reilly
Published 30 October 2009
Event 2 December 2009
In her inaugural lecture Jackie O’Reilly looks at the troublesome issue of women at work.
With more women working, more women attending university and more women moving up the occupational hierarchy, are we seeing more equality in the workplace and the home? Why do employers offer women different employment contracts? How does the long working hours culture and the predominance of part-time work in the UK affect equality at work?
Jackie O’Reilly compares and evaluates changes to women’s work in the UK with those in other countries, looking at the agenda for future policy reform.
Jackie O’Reilly is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations and HRM at the University of Brighton Business School. She has worked as a researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), the European University Institute Florence, Sciences Politiques Paris; she has taught at London University, the Singapore School of Management, UMIST and Sussex University.
Some of her book publications include ‘Regulating Working Time Transitions in Europe’, ‘Part-time Prospects’, ‘The International Handbook on Labour Market Policy and Evaluation’ and ‘Banking on Flexibility’.
She has just received a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to work on her current book for Oxford University Press ‘Challenging the Gender Contract: Changing Work and Welfare in Europe’.
The Trouble with Women
Professor Jacqueline O'Reilly
Leverhulme Fellow and Professor of Comparative Employment Relations and Human Resources Management
Wednesday 2 December 2009 at 6.30pm
Lecture theatre G8
Mithras House
University of Brighton
Moulsecoomb BN2 4AT
Light refreshments will be served after the lecture.
All welcome - if you would like to attend please email events@brighton.ac.uk.
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