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Gender, Power and New Zealand Culture - Catriona MacLennan and Prue Hyman

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"Gender, Power and New Zealand Culture

Catriona MacLennan will discuss the issues as they relate to physical and cultural power. She will look at the experiences of beneficiaries and the prevalence of violence against women, as well as examining the absence of women from our national events and celebrations.

Prue Hyman will focus on the causes and consequences of economic power remaining largely in the hands of rich white men -  including the house of cards constituted by orthodox, neoclassical economic theory and its associated financial system. These both buttress such power and divert every attempt at major change – such as restoring business as usual after the GFC rather than true reform. The undervaluation of women’s paid and unpaid work is one aspect of this power system.
 
Catriona MacLennan is a barrister, journalist and social activist with extensive experience in relation to domestic violence, benefit law and rape law reform. She helped set up Nga Ture Kaitiaki ki Waikato Community Law Centre and was the project director for Nga Tangata Microfinance Trust, to provide affordable loans to low income families. She is a co-author of the CPAG report The complexities of “relationship” in the welfare system and the consequences for children.

Prue Hyman was Associate Professor of Economics and Gender and Women’s Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. A feminist economist and activist, she continues to write and speak on many theory and policy areas including feminist economic theory, labour force participation, earnings, industrial relations, income maintenance, housing, the position of older women, and international issues. Her publications include the 1994 book WOMEN AND ECONOMICS: A NEW ZEALAND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE and she has just completed an update 20 years on, focused on NZ women's economic status including the gender pay gap and earnings differentials generally - to be published later this year. Currently she has been assisting the lawyers and unions with the Kristine Bartlett v Terranova Equal Pay Act case and the living wage campaign.

When
June 25th, 2015 from  5:30 PM to  7:30 PM