Les confrences PRESAGE

Les conférences PRESAGE
Pr. Gosta Esping-Andersen
What happens to family life when
the gender revolution matures?
Mardi 13 septembre 2011 de 17h30 à 19h30
Sciences Po, 56, rue des Saints Pères 75007 Paris
Salle Goguel– 3ème étage
Conférence an anglais
Presentation words :
The first stages of the revolution of women's roles fostered declining fertility, fewer
marriages, and considerable marital instability with heightened divorce risks. What
we are beginning to see, as the revolution matures, is a clear u-turn in terms of all
three key components of family formation -- especially led by the vaguard of women's
role change.
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Biography:
Gosta Esping-Andersen is professor of Sociology at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra
where he directs the DEMOSOC research unit. In 2009 he was nominated ICREAAcademia professor.
Born in Denmark, he studied economics and sociology at Copenhagen University
and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received his PhD.
His scientific work centres on life course dynamics, social stratification and
comparative social policy. Before coming to Pompeu Fabra, he taught at Harvard
University, the University of Trento and the European University in Italy. Among
his major academic publications are numerous books, including The Three Worlds of
Welfare Capitalism (translated into Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Spanish)
for which he was awarded the APSA’s Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award
in 2005; The Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies (translated into Italian
and Japanese); and, most recently, Trois Lecons sur L’Etat Providence (Paris, Le
Seuil). His later book is The incomplete revolution (Polity Press 2009) .
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Doctor Honoris
Causa at Roskilde University, and honorary professor at the University of Aalborg.
He is member of the scientific board of numerous scientific institutions including the
Danish National Institute for Social Research and the CEACS of the Juan March
Institute and IMDEA.
He has been actively engaged in applied policy relevant work for international
organizations, including the United Nations, the OECD, ISSA, and the European
Union. He participated in the preparation for the EU’s Lisbon Summit in 2000 and coauthored a report on welfare state reform for the Belgian presidency of the EU in
2002. He has been actively involved in the design of early childhood policies in
several countries, and is member of EU President Baroso’s social policy advisory
group.
New BOOK :
"The incomplete revolution"
Our future depends very much on how we respond to three
great challenges of the new century, all of which threaten to
increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to
the new role of women - the ‘incomplete revolution' of our
time; second, how we prepare our children for the knowledge
economy; and, third, how we respond to the new
demography, in particular low fertility and an ageing
population.
In this new book Gøsta Esping-Andersen - the leading analyst
of the welfare state - examines how different societies have
responded to these challenges. It focuses especially on the
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quest for gender equality, on the role of families in the reproduction of social
inequalities, and on major inequities associated with an ageing population. Through
comparative analysis he seeks to identify the kinds of welfare state reform that can
optimize not only individuals' life chances but also collective welfare. The intellectual
ambition is, in other words, to identify the mainsprings of a new and superior form of
social equilibrium.
This book will be of great interest to anyone concerned with gender and the changing
role of women, with social and public policy, and with the future of the welfare state
Inscription et renseignements:
Charlène Lavoir 01.44.18.54.41 [email protected]
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