Current
research projects (2005-)
- "Meta-analysis
of gender and science research" (2007-2010)
- "Rapport
sur l'écart salarial entre femmes et hommes en Europe"
(2010)
Former
research projects (2001-2004)
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“She
Figures 2009” (August 2008 – June 2009) - The
objective of this project was to continue previous methodological
developments and data gathering and processing so as to yield
the statistics and indicators necessary for monitoring the
progress towards gender equality in science. More concretely,
the necessary sex-disaggregated data were collected and the
indicators were computed that were needed for the 2009 She
Figures publication of the Scientific Culture and Gender Issues
Unit of the Directorate General Research and Technological
Developments of the European Commission. The data were collected
for the 27 EU Member States plus Croatia, Iceland, Israel,
Norway, Switzerland and Turkey from the early nineties until
2007 or the latest data available.
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Coordinator
of the project “Belgian Gender and Income Analysis
(BGIA)” (2007-2009), a research in collaboration
with the Institute for equality of women and men (Institut
pour l’égalité des femmes et des hommes),
the Federal Public Service for Scientific Policy (la Politique
scientifique fédérale) and the Directorate general
for Statistics and economic Information (Direction générale
des Statistiques et de l’Information économique).
The aim of this project was to provide an in-dept analysis
at the individual level of the comparative income and poverty
situation of women and men in Belgium and 8 other European
countries on the basis of the different data sources available
(EU-SILC 2005, ESES, Enquête belge sur le budget des
ménages and fiscal data). New methods and indicators
have been developed and a “gender and income”
database was constructed. These will soon be made widely available
to facilitate and encourage future research on the topic.
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The
project “Public policies towards employment of parents
and social inclusion (PEPSI)” (2005-2008), a research
sponsored by the Federal Public Service for Scientific Policy
under the pluri-annual research programme “Society and
Future” (2005-2010), my contribution consisted in examining
the wage gap between mothers and non-mothers along the wage
distribution.
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Assistance to Danièle Meulders and Robert Plasman who
represent respectively Belgium and Luxembourg in the European
Commission’s Expert Group on Gender and Employment (EGGE).
This group used to carry out a yearly assessment of both the
National Action Plans for Employment and those for Social
Inclusion (2003-2006) from a gender point of view. As of 2008,
only the NRPs are analysed. Each year, we also write a national
thematic report (“the costs of non-gender equality”,
“Making work pay”, “the gender wage gap”,
etc.).
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“Women in industrial research” (December
2001 – June 2003). The aim of the final report we have
written was to provide a complete analysis of the issue of
women in industrial research, as well as of the obstacles
they encounter as their career develops and how they can overcome
them. Thanks to the efforts made by the DG Research Women
and Science unit, for the first time official data were made
available. A literature review at the European and international
levels has been carried out as well as two kinds of analysis:
(i) quantitative and (ii) qualitative. Good practices and
recommendations have also been gathered in order to help in
the construction of actions to improve the current situation
of women in industrial research.
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Targeted Socio-Economic Research (TSER) programme, financed
by the European Commission and co-ordinated by Prof. D. MARSDEN
(London School of Economics and Centre for Economic Performance).
Theme: “Pay inequalities and economic performance”.
Objective: Investigate the relationship between pay inequalities,
organisational change, business and employment performance,
focusing the analysis on performance at the detailed industry
level. February 2002 – December 2004.
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