Events and presentations

2013

Policy briefing on transferable tax allowance

'Marriage tax break fails women (and 69% of married couples)', December 2013, by Fran Bennett and Susan Himmelweit, Policy briefing by the Women's Budget Group analysing the gender impact of the Transferable Tax Allowance proposed by the Chancellor in his Autumn Financial Statement 2013.

Response to the government consultation on Tax-free childcare

GenIX response by Susan Himmelweit and Jerome De Henau (October 2013); This report addresses some of the issues raised by the proposed Tax-free childcare policy announced by the government in the 2013 Budget. Evidence from the GenIX project was used to analyse the gender impact and suggests amendments to the proposed changes.

OECD-Universities Joint Conference

Paris, July 2013 – 'New Directions in Welfare III', GenIX presentation on 'Using subjective measures of financial well-being to investigate intra-household gender inequalities across countries'.

Equality and Diversity Forum Research Network seminar series "Hard times for equality"

February 2013 – Presentation in seminar 2 on "Welfare reform – issues and impact" on "Universal Credit: The Gender Impact"  by Fran Bennett and Susan Himmelweit drew on GenIX research, in particular the finding that among couples both members tend to be more concerned about the man’s employment status than the woman’s.

2012

The Women's Budget Group report

"The Impact on Women of Autumn Financial Statement 2012 and Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill 2013" drew on findings from GenIX research that the employment status of household members influences how much they benefit from household resources.

Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth

Boston, USA, August 2012 – GenIX's paper on 'A Comparative Longitudinal Analysis of Intra-Household Inequalities in Australia, Germany and the UK'.

International Association for Feminist Economics conference

Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, June 2012 – "Human Well-Being for the 21st Century: Weaving Alliances from Feminist Economics". GenIX presentation on 'Framing public policy from an intrahousehold gendered perspective. The cases of the UK, Australia and Germany since the mid-nineties.' and 'The impact of policies of increasing choice on those who live in households'.

Wealth and Poverty in Close Personal Relationships, Expert Workshop

International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, May 2012 – GenIX presentation on 'Framing public policy from an intra-household gendered perspective. The cases of the UK, Australia and Germany since the mid-nineties.'

Department of Economics, Reading University

January 2012 – GenIX seminar presentation on 'Who benefits from household resources? A cross-national exploration using gendered data on satisfaction with household income'

The Women's Budget Group

Briefings for parliamentarians on gender issues in the Welfare Reform Bill on findings from GenIX research. During the Bill's second reading some verbal assurances were given by the minister, Lord Freud, to consider again introducing a second earner earnings disregard, an issue raised in these briefings to which GenIX evidence on the effects of employment status on ability to benefit from household income is particularly pertinent.

2011

9th Annual European Network of Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet) conference

Valencia, Spain, September 2011 – "Sustainability and Transformation in European Social Policy". GenIX paper on "Comparing welfare regimes by their effects on intra-household inequalities".

European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) conference

Vienna, Austria, October 2011 – "Schumpeter's Heritage - The Evolution of the Theory of Evolution". GenIX paper on the 'The effects of policies on financial inequalities within households: a cross country comparison'.

International Association for Feminist Economics conference

Hangzhou, China, June 2011 – "Reorienting Economic Theory, Policies, and Institutions: Feminist Perspectives in the Aftermath of the Global Economic Crisis". GenIX's presentation on "The Effects of Policies of Different Welfare Regimes on Intra-Household Inequalities".

Australian Social Policy (SPRC) conference

Sydney, Australia, July 2011 – "Social Policy in a Complex World". GenIX's presentation on "The Effects of Policies of Different Welfare Regimes on Intra-Household Inequalities ".

2010

International Association for Feminist Economics conference

Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2011- "Global Economic Crises and Feminist Rethinking of the Development Discourse". GenIX's two presentations on "The politics of choice in a world made of households" and "Education and entitlement to household income. A gendered longitudinal analysis of British couples".

Within Household Inequalities and Public Policy (WHIPP) Workshop

A workshop on "Within Household Inequalities and Public Policy" was held on 11 and 12 March 2010 in Oxford to which GenIX contributed a presentation on "Within Household Gender Inequalities in Resources and Entitlements: Policy Implications". Its aim was to discuss on firstly, what does investigating what goes on within households with respect to resources and entitlements tells us about gender inequalities and on what policy issues follow from or could relate to that. It also examined the research and policy lessons of work done so far in this area by the research team and others and to set the agenda in terms of what further research is needed.

A network of researchers in this area was set up as a result of this workshop of which GenIX was a founder member. GenIX grew out of a project on "Within Household Inequalities and Public Policy" that formed part of the Gender Equality Network (GeNet), funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council.

2009

Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) conference

San Francisco, USA, January 2009 – GenIX's presentation on "Trading off Money for Free Time Within Households: A Gendered Analysis of Cooperative Conflicts" was presented in an IAFFE/URPE (Union of Radical Political Economics) session on "Household and Gender Equality".

European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) conference

Sevilla, Spain, June 2009 – GenIX presentation on "Cooperation and conflict within couples: The gendered distribution of entitlement to household income".