{"id":165,"date":"2013-02-05T12:52:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T12:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/?p=165"},"modified":"2013-02-05T12:52:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T12:52:03","slug":"event-gender-equality-matters-in-a-new-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/event-gender-equality-matters-in-a-new-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: Gender Equality Matters in a New Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Women and Constitutional Futures Seminar Series:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gender Equality Matters in a New Scotland<\/strong><br \/>\nSEMINAR 3: 14-15 February 2013.<br \/>\nRoyal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Why should women care about constitutional debates?<\/li>\n<li>Where are women\u2019s voices and gender equality issues in the current discussions?<\/li>\n<li>What do different constitutional options mean for women\u2019s lives and the likely progress\u00a0towards a more gender equal society?<\/li>\n<li>Does focusing on constitutional remedies deflect attention from pressing issues?<\/li>\n<li>What sort of Scotland do women want? Join the debate!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We draw upon international experience and lessons learned to date in Scotland and the UK to address\u00a0these important issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmed Speakers include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thor Gylfason, Chair of Icelandic Alliance for a New Constitution<\/li>\n<li>Georgina Waylen, University of Manchester, international expert on gender and constitutional\u00a0reform<\/li>\n<li>Alan Miller, Chair Scottish Human Rights Commission<\/li>\n<li>Alice Brown, Former member Consultative Steering Group on the Scottish Parliament<\/li>\n<li>Tania Verge, Universitat Pompeu Fabre, Barcelona. Expert on women and politics in Cataluyna and\u00a0Spain<\/li>\n<li>Dave Moxham, Deputy Secretary General STUC<\/li>\n<li>Niki Kandirikira, Director of Scottish women\u2019s organisation, Engender<\/li>\n<li>Christine Bell, University of Edinburgh, feminist legal and constitutional scholar,<\/li>\n<li>Bob Black, Former Auditor General, Scotland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chaired by Lesley Riddoch.<\/p>\n<p>To register and learn more, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishinsight.ac.uk\/Programmes\/Programmes20122013\/Constitutionalfutures\/Seminar3.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women and Constitutional Futures Seminar Series: Gender Equality Matters in a New Scotland SEMINAR 3: 14-15 February 2013. Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh Why should women care about constitutional debates? Where are women\u2019s voices and gender equality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/event-gender-equality-matters-in-a-new-scotland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}