Organizer 1
Berit Berg
Senior Research Scientist
SINTEF Industrial Management, IFIM
SINTEF Industrial Management IFIM N-7465 Trondheim Norway

Tel: +47 73 59 25 56
Fax: +47 59 25 70
Email:berit.berg@sintef.no


Organizer 2
Ellen Stensrud
Confederal Secretary
Norwegian Federeation of Trade Unions
Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions Youngsgt 11 N-0181 Oslo Norway

Tel: +47 23 06 10 50
Fax: +47 23 06 17 53
Email:ellen.stensrud@lo.no


Organizer 3
Lisbeth Reed
Personnel Advisor
County of Vest-Agder
County of Vest-Agder Postboks 770 N-4666 Kristiansand Norway

Tel: +47 38 07 45 10
Fax: +47 38 07 45 01
Email:lisreed@online.no



Workshop description:
The main goal of the workshop is to discuss strategies for integrating the management of diversity into overall management in both public and private-sector organisations. A critical theme throughout the workshop will be whether diversity management can alone be trusted to promote anti-discrimination and employment-equity ends, or whether more traditional strategies are still needed. These questions will be examined and discussed from a gender perspective. International research indicates that the unemployment rates among immigrant women are higher than among immigrant men. Research also indicates that immigrant women more often are offered part-time and unskilled work. How can this be explained? Is this a general consequence of a gendered labour market? Or do we find other (or supplementary) explanations connected to the ethnicity and minority status of immigrant women? These questions will be discussed during the workshop. We also want to focus on good practices – with examples from both the private and public sectors.


Goals of the workshop:
(Indicated obove.)




Policy relevance and topic: This topic is of great relevans both for policy makers, labour market institutions and workplaces.


How international comparisons are included: The presentations will be based on international research and show good practices from Norway, Denmark and Sweden.


Reference to concerns with policy-making and best practice: Will be included!


Presenters / participants /other information
Confirmed participants:

John Wrench
Danish Centre for Migration and Ethnic Studies
jwr@sam.sdu.dk

Ellen Stensrud
Norwegian Federation of Trade Unions
ellen.stensrud@lo.no

Lisbeth Reed
County of Vest-Agder
lisreed@online.no

Hanne Cecilie Kavli
Institute for Applied Social Science
hanne.kavli@fafo.no

Whyn Lam
Diversity at Work
whyn@mangfold.no

Berit Berg
SINTEF Industrial Management
berit.berg@sintef.no





Summary:
International research indicates that the unemployment rates among immigrant women are higher than among immigrant men, and that immigrant women more often are offered part-time and unskilled work. Is this a general consequence of a gendered labour market? Or do we find other (or supplementary) explanations connected to the ethnicity and minority status of immigrant women? These questions will be discussed during the workshop.



Date: 10 September


(1 session is 3 hours)
Number of sessions: 1

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