Despite significant progress in the last decades, gender inequalities in the labour market remain pervasive. Women are paid less, are less likely to be promoted, and are less able to access well-paying jobs. As part of our ESRC-funded project, The Gender Gap in Pay Progression: Job Mobility and Job Ladders, we are organising a one-day workshop to focus on these issues.

The workshop will bring together leading scholars in the field to discuss their latest cutting edge research.

Agenda

9:10-Arrival coffee

9.40 Welcome - Dr Silvia Avram, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (University of Essex)

9:50 Professor Klarita Gerxhani (European University Institute)- Status Ranking and Gender Inequality.

10:35 Dr Berkay Ozcan (London School of Economics)- Early Childhood Investments and Mother’s Work Outcomes across the Life Course.

11.20 coffee

11:50 Dr Pilar Gonalons-Pons (University of Pennsylvania)- Care penalties and the Structure of Inequality

12:35 Dr Silvia Avram (University of Essex)-Gender differences in job mobility and pay progression in the UK

1:20-2:30 pm Lunch

2:30 Dr Sander Wagner (University of Oxford) - Labour Market Consequences of Motherhood in France and Germany

3:15 Prof Hadas Mandel (University of Tel Aviv) - Structural earnings inequality and the stagnation in the gender pay gap: Evidence from United States, 1980 to 2017

4:00 Closing remarks from Professor Susan Harkness, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, (University of Bristol)

Organisers:

Dr Silvia Avram, University of Essex

Dr Daria Popova, University of Essex

Prof Susan Harkness, University of Bristol