APL (Ajiken Power Lunch)

APL (Ajiken Power Lunch) is a lunchtime workshop open to public, including IDE staffs, visiting research fellows, IDEAS students, outside researchers and graduate students. This workshop provides a platform for presentation of any work in progress where we can discuss in either English or Japanese.

Those who would attend a seminar are asked to announce yourself to receptionists on your arrival at the IDE and to obtain APL Organizers' signature on your admission card after the seminar.

May 27, 2016. (Friday) 12：30-14：00

Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization C22 Meeting Room 　

Is this the end of the road? Will life-time earnings for the average female ever lift to 66 cents in the average male dollar?

This wide ranging lecture documents the extraordinary labour market gains that the average woman has made in Australia, relative to the average man, over the last half century. It discusses what has been learnt from this history. Which factors impacted most on changes in gender labour market outcomes and why did they occur? The lecture also conjectures whether, from a macro perspective, significant movement towards labour market equality for the average woman has more-or-less come to an end and, if so, what could significantly change this? Could it even be argued that the gender equality movement is losing its focus and effectiveness?

Robert G. Gregory (Research School of Economics, CBE, Australian National University)

Momoe MAKINO

English