BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18e0bcb7c20730f17df7d15704f11f5f CATEGORIES:Academics CREATED:20220302T152259 SUMMARY:Imagining Equal Futures: Women and Work in a Post-Pandemic World DESCRIPTION:Building on the theme of International Women's Day (IWD 2022) "Gender Equal ity Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow", the Women’s cell at FLAME University invites you to collectively imagine futures that are just, equitable and c ompassionate. Our focus on the analytical category of "work" is significant given that the pandemic exacerbated the invisibility of women’s work, both paid labor and unpaid care work. Given this context, we are eager to know what debates are important and what actions are needed as India plans a pos t-pandemic recovery. More generally, we want to ask: how do we 'bargain' fo r an equitable future? Our three speakers from the world of academia and de velopment focus on the multiple challenges that privileged as well as under privileged women face in the home and the workplace.\n Join us as we celebr ate the change-makers who are shifting the axis of this debate.\n Join (htt ps://flameuniversity.zoom.us/j/93948959499)\n Women’s Day Event 2022\n M s. Mirai Chatterjee \n Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons from the Self- Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)\n March 8 | 2.30 to 4.00 PM IST\n Prof. Ravinder Kaur \n Equal Futures Require Men to Share Women's Unpaid Wo rk Equally! Gendered Roles and Female Labour Force Participation in India\n March 9 | 2.30 to 4.00 PM IST\n Prof. Mangala Subramaniam \n Gendered Impacts Of Covid: How Can Universities Support Faculty?\n March 10 | 9.00 to 10.30 AM IST\n \n\n\n Speakers for Women’s Day Event\n Ms. Mirai Chatterjee Mirai Chatterjee is the Director of the Social Security Team at the Self-Employed Women’s Association, (SEWA). She is also Chairperson of t he SEWA Cooperative Federation of 110 women’s primary cooperatives. In addi tion, she is responsible for SEWA’s health care, child care and insurance p rogrammes. She was Chairperson of the National Insurance VimoSEWA Cooperati ve Ltd and the Lok Swasthya SEWA Health Cooperative, and is actively involv ed in both as a board member and founder. She joined SEWA in 1984 and was i ts General Secretary after its Founder, Ela Bhatt.\n Ms Chatterjee serves a s Chairperson of the global informal workers and policy-makers network, WIE GO (Women in Informal Employment Globalising and Organising), and on the Bo ards of several organizations, including the Public Health Foundation of In dia (PHFI), Save the Children, PRADAN and the Schwab Foundation for social entrepreneurship. She was advisor to the National Commission for Enterprise s in the Unorganized Sector and is in the Advisory Group on Community Actio n of the National Rural Health Mission. She was also a Commissioner in the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health . She was a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC), appointed by the Prime Minister of India in 2010. She was conferred the Global Achievement award by the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.\n Ms. Chatt erjee has a B.A. from Harvard University in History and Science and a Maste rs from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Public Health, USA.\n Pr of. Ravinder Kaur  Ravinder Kaur is a Professor of Sociology and Social Ant hropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Insti tute of Technology, Delhi and has taught there for the last 25 years. She s erved as Chair of the Department from July 2015 to February 2018. She has p reviously taught at the University of Delhi and New York University and has held short-term visiting research positions in several universities abroad . She researches various aspects of gender inequalities, at home and at wor k; her most recent focus of attention is women in science and technology. S he has worked extensively on the issue of adverse sex ratios and their cons equences in India and China and has published widely on the subject. Her wo rk in this area spans gender-biased sex selection and its relationship with fertility, education, work, class mobility, crime, and marriage squeeze. H er ethnographic work on bride shortages and long-distance marriage migratio n in Haryana has been seminal to research in this area.\n Her recent resear ch is on “Changing parental attitudes and shifting value of daughters”. She is also the lead researcher on two new projects 1) “Fixing the Leak: Advan cing STEM Innovation and Inclusion in India, One Woman Scientist at a Time” beginning February 2022 and 2) “Femtech and the Possibilities, Pitfalls an d Politics of Digital Reproductive Health Management in India: Envisioning Better Reproductive Futures”.\n She is a founder-member of IGES – Initiativ e for Gender Equity and Sensitization – IIT Delhi’s gender unit and leads t heir programs on gender sensitization. She is currently in charge of implem enting a major DST pilot project called GATI (Gender Advancement for Transf orming Institutions) at IIT Delhi. She is also a recipient of a Teaching Ex cellence award at IIT Delhi.\n Prof. Mangala Subramaniam Mangala Subr amaniam is a Professor, Butler Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley But ler Center for Leadership Excellence at Purdue University (U.S.A.). Her res earch is in the areas of gender (and intersections with race, class, nation ality), social movements, and higher education. In her current administrati ve role, she focuses on providing professional development programs for fac ulty; educational seminars such as the current work-climate series; and wor kshops for faculty and other campus constituencies. Notable among her initi atives is the Coaching and Resource Network (CRN) creatively designed as a dyadic model in which full professors advocate for and sponsor assistant an d associate professors, particularly faculty of color.\n Her work has been extensively featured in podcasts and national higher ed sources such as Div erse Ed, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and was the cover story in an international edition of the Higher Ed Digest. Topics covered include best practices tools for documenting and assessing faculty COVID im pact statements and recruitment and retention of faculty of color, among ot hers. She has published over 40 articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her fifth book is a co-edited collection, Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education, forthcoming 20 22. She is currently finalizing another co-edited collection tentatively ti tled, Breaking the Silence: Gender and Institutional Responsibility in Prom otion to Full Professor. Critical examination of the criteria for promotion to full professor will also be the topic of her webinar for the National C enter for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), U.S.A. in the summer o f 2022. She is the editor of the book series, Navigating Careers in Higher Education (Purdue University Press). For details see www.mangalasubramaniam .com\n Event Organizers: Juhi Sidharth, Shalaka Shah, Tannistha Saman ta, Garima Rajan, Aileen Blaney, Divya Balan, Smita Chaudhry, Tejashree Tha kar & Kasturi Chatterjee\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Building on the theme of International Women's Day (IWD 2022) "Gender Eq uality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow", the Women’s cell at FLAME Univers ity invites you to collectively imagine futures that are just, equitable an d compassionate. Our focus on the analytical category of "work" is signific ant given that the pandemic exacerbated the invisibility of women’s work, b oth paid labor and unpaid care work. Given this context, we are eager to kn ow what debates are important and what actions are needed as India plans a post-pandemic recovery. More generally, we want to ask: how do we 'bargain' for an equitable future? Our three speakers from the world of academia and development focus on the multiple challenges that privileged as well as un derprivileged women face in the home and the workplace.

Join us as we celebrate the change-makers who are shifting the axis of this debate .

Join

Women’s Day Event 2022

Ms. Mira i Chatterjee

Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons from the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

March 8 | 2.30 to 4.00 PM IST

Prof. Ravinder Kaur

Equal Futures Require Men to Share Women's Unpaid Work Equally! Gendered Roles and Female Labour Force P articipation in India

March 9 | 2.30 to 4.00 PM IST

Prof. Mangala Subramaniam

Gendered Impacts Of Covid: How Can Universities Support Fac ulty?

March 10 | 9.00 to 10.30 AM IST



Speakers for Women’s Da y Event

Ms. Mirai Chatterjee

Mirai Chatterjee is the Director of the Social Security Team at the Self-Em ployed Women’s Association, (SEWA). She is also Chairperson of the SEWA Coo perative Federation of 110 women’s primary cooperatives. In addition, she i s responsible for SEWA’s health care, child care and insurance programmes. She was Chairperson of the National Insurance VimoSEWA Cooperative Ltd and the Lok Swasthya SEWA Health Cooperative, and is actively involved in both as a board member and founder. She joined SEWA in 1984 and was its General Secretary after its Founder, Ela Bhatt.

Ms Chatterjee serve s as Chairperson of the global informal workers and policy-makers network, WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment Globalising and Organising), and on the Boards of several organizations, including the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Save the Children, PRADAN and the Schwab Foundation for soci al entrepreneurship. She was advisor to the National Commission for Enterpr ises in the Unorganized Sector and is in the Advisory Group on Community Ac tion of the National Rural Health Mission. She was also a Commissioner in t he World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Hea lth. She was a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC), appointed by the Prime Minister of India in 2010. She was conferred the Global Achieveme nt award by the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

Ms. Chatterjee has a B.A. from Harvard University in History and Sc ience and a Masters from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Public Health , USA.

Prof. Ravind er Kaur

 Ravinder Kaur is a Prof essor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and has taught t here for the last 25 years. She served as Chair of the Department from July 2015 to February 2018. She has previously taught at the University of Delh i and New York University and has held short-term visiting research positio ns in several universities abroad. She researches various aspects of gender inequalities, at home and at work; her most recent focus of attention is w omen in science and technology. She has worked extensively on the issue of adverse sex ratios and their consequences in India and China and has publis hed widely on the subject. Her work in this area spans gender-biased sex se lection and its relationship with fertility, education, work, class mobilit y, crime, and marriage squeeze. Her ethnographic work on bride shortages an d long-distance marriage migration in Haryana has been seminal to research in this area.

Her recent research is on “Changing parental attitudes and shifting value of daughters”. She is also the lead researcher on two new projects 1) “Fixing the Leak: Advancing STEM Innovation and Inc lusion in India, One Woman Scientist at a Time” beginning February 2022 and 2) “Femtech and the Possibilities, Pitfalls and Politics of Digital Reprod uctive Health Management in India: Envisioning Better Reproductive Futures” .

She is a founder-member of IGES – Initiative for Gender E quity and Sensitization – IIT Delhi’s gender unit and leads their programs on gender sensitization. She is currently in charge of implementing a major DST pilot project called GATI (Gender Advancement for Transforming Institu tions) at IIT Delhi. She is also a recipient of a Teaching Excellence award at IIT Delhi.

Prof. Mangala Subramaniam

Mangala Subramaniam is a Professor, Butler Chair and Director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence at Purdue University (U.S.A.). Her research is i n the areas of gender (and intersections with race, class, nationality), so cial movements, and higher education. In her current administrative role, s he focuses on providing professional development programs for faculty; educ ational seminars such as the current work-climate series; and workshops for faculty and other campus constituencies. Notable among her initiatives is the Coaching and Resource Network (CRN) creatively designed as a dyadic mod el in which full professors advocate for and sponsor assistant and associat e professors, particularly faculty of color.

Her work has been extens ively featured in podcasts and national higher ed sources such as Diverse E d, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and was the cover story in an international edition of the Higher Ed Digest. Topics covered includ e best practices tools for documenting and assessing faculty COVID impact s tatements and recruitment and retention of faculty of color, among others. She has published over 40 articles and book chapters as well as four books. Her fifth book is a co-edited collection, Dismantling Institutional Wh iteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education, forthcoming 2022. She is currently finalizing another co-edited collection tentatively titled, Breaking the Silence: Gender and Institutional Responsibility in Promotion to Full Professor. Critical examination of the criteria f or promotion to full professor will also be the topic of her webinar for th e National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD), U.S.A. in the summer of 2022. She is the editor of the book series, Navigating Career s in Higher Education (Purdue University Press). For details see www.mangal asubramaniam.com

Event Organizers: Juhi Sidharth, Shalaka Shah, Tannistha Samanta , Garima Rajan, Aileen Blaney, Divya Balan, Smita Chau dhry, Tejashree Thakar & ; Kasturi Chatterjee< /p> DTSTAMP:20260411T163714 DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20220308T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20220310T050000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR