Sharing knowledge and experience to improve the working conditions of women and strengthen equality is the main objective of the international conference ‘Women’s health and work' that the ETUI organises on March 4-6, 2015 at the ITUH in Brussels. The conference will touch on 6 areas organised in workshops of broad interest: health inequalities and division of labour; women workers exposed to chemicals, work organisation and the interaction with private life, the hardships of work, the design and use of protective clothing, personal protective equipment, tools and machinery for women’s work, and ageing and the long term effects of work. The latter workshop is organised by EU-OSHA.
The conference is organised in such a way that it will enable the symbiotic interaction between workers’ action and knowledge development in a dialogue among all stakeholders (researchers, professionals, trade union reps and activists) towards the improvement of women’s working conditions and health and strengthen links between European institutions and organizations engaged with improving working conditions and gender equality.
Confirmed speakers for the plenary sessions include Lucia Artacoz (Salut Laboral de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona, Spain), Colette Fagan (Manchester University, UK), Katherine Lippel (Ottawa University, Canada), Karen Messing (Université du Québec à Montréal UQAM, Canada), Elke Schneider and Sarah Copsey (EU- OSHA), Carme Valls, (Centre d'Anàlisi i Programes Sanitaris CAPS, Spain).
The programme will soon be available on the ETUI website. Additional information will be added in the run-up to the conference so please check out this page regularly.
The conference will start at 9h on Wednesday, 4 March and will end at 14h on Friday, 6 March. Interpretation from and into English, French and Spanish will be provided.
Registration is free of charge but compulsory. To register please fill in the REGISTRATION FORM and send it to Dominique Schwan (dschwan@etui.org) before 9 February 2015.