FEMCIT findings will be published in the book series "Citizenship, Gender and Diversity" by Palgrave Macmillan.
As of March 2011, five books have been contracted for the series. The first two books in the series will be the FEMCIT Anthology: "Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: Women's Movements, Gender and Diversity" (eds. Halsaa, Roseneil, Sümer) and "Majority-Minority Relations in Contemporary Women's Movements: Strategic Sisterhood" (eds. Nyhagen Predelli & Halsaa).
 
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In January 2011, FEMCIT Work Package 1, led by Monica Threlfall at London Metropolitan University, hosted a Discussion and Networking Roundtable on the
theme of Stepping Stones to Political Representation for Ethnic Minority Women.

In June 2009 the Women’s Congress was held in Warsaw, and the FEMCIT research was cited at the Polish Parliament by Małgorzata Fuszara during the gender parity campaign. Its main goal became the introduction of gender parity for candidates on electoral lists in Poland. The Congress had been organised by a network of women, some of whom are members of women’s NGOs, but the great majority of whom has never been active in such organisations.

FEMCIT was present during the events held to mark the opening of a 
newly-renovated historic London building that has become the 
headquarters of the European Commission in the UK and the European 
Parliament UK office.

A wider reaching dissemination seminar targeting Nordic countries was arranged by NIKK- Nordic Gender Institute (Solveig Bergman) and Centre for Gender Research (STK) at the University of Oslo (Beatrice Halsaa) on 5 November 2010. The seminar was met with interest, attracting around 60 participants.

Zuzana Uhde: During my stay in Berkeley I had a pleasure to work with Professor Glenn who kindly consented to give me an interview about her work and her more recent perspective on contemporary challenges with respect to the division of care responsibilities and social organization of care. Her scholarly work was inspiring for our research within FEMCIT in the workpackage 2 on social citizenship as she has been engaged with most of the fundamental concepts we have been dealing with, particularly care, gender, citizenship, class and cultural differences. This interview hopefully reveals a bit of her thought provoking approach and invincible spirit of struggling against injustices in caring relations.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, she is a founding director of the research Center for Race and Gender at the same university. She was elected President of the American Sociological Association for the academic year 2009-2010.
Her lifelong scholarly research has focused on the dynamics of gender, race and class in processes of exclusion and discrimination. She has fundamentally contributed to the feminist analysis of the co-constitution of gender and racial inequalities which she has applied to her research on racial and gender division of reproductive labor, both paid and unpaid, and production and reproduction of exclusion within American citizenship. She has published several books, including Forced to Care. Coercion and Caregiving in America (2010), Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor (2002) and Issei, Nisei, Warbride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service (1986). She also co-edited the volume Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency (1994) and edited Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters (2009).

In an article in a forthcoming anthology, Minna Rantalaiho from Finland approaches Nordic cash-for-childcare (CFC) policies from a comparative perspective. CFC policies refer to cash transfers for families with small children, typically children under the age of three years. CFC transfers are often observed as a controversial feature in the context of Nordic welfare states. One of the core ideas of CFC transfers has been the support of informal, mostly home-based parental childcare arrangements. By encouraging home-care of children, which belongs to activities that women are involved in considerably more often than men are, CFC transfers are considered not only to strengthen traditional gender roles in families with children but have multiplicative effects on gender equality in a society.

In September 2010, FEMCIT participants Isabel Crowhurst (Birkbeck College), Joyce Outshoorn (University of Leiden), along with May-Len Skilbrei (Fafo Institute Norway), convened a three-day workshop on prostitution policies in London, sponsored by the European Science Foundation. Its aim was to assess the state of knowledge in this area and to develop new research objectives.

The summer of 2010 the final study of the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNHS) was published: The Politics of State Feminism. Innovation in Comparative Research.

A Summary of Key Findings is now available from research conducted within FEMCIT Work Package 4, ‘Multicultural Citizenship: Intersections between feminism, ethnic identity and religion’.

Based on in-depth interviews with Christian and Muslim women in Norway, Spain, and the UK, the study focused on how women’s religious identities and practices may provide both resources and barriers to citizenship.

Extracts from the FEMCIT research on ethnic and religious citizenship were presented during a seminar in Oslo September 6th.  Cecilie Thun discussed the complex relations between the hijab, being Norwegian and a feminist in contemporary Norway. Her presentation was based on our interviews with Christian and Muslim women.

The Norwegian WP4 report on religious citizenship, based on interviews with 20 women belonging to the Norwegian State Church, the Pentecostals, the Sunni and Shia communities was presented and discussed at a seminar at the University of Oslo on May 11th 2010. The questions addressed the extent to which religion establishes barriers or possibilities for women. What do faith communities – Christian and Muslim – do in relation to gender equality? How do religious women talk about their religious identity, gender equality and feminism? Does the notion of religious citizenship make sense to them?

WP 3 researchers Anne-Jorunn Berg and Berit Gullikstad, are, together with Anne Britt Flemmen, editors of a new book that has been published in Norway, Likestilte norskheter. Om kjønn og etnisitet.

By Line Nyhagen Predelli, WP4 leader

How Christian and Muslim women in Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom talk about and view the women’s movement and feminism is one of the topics currently investigated by FEMCIT Work Package 4. Through qualitative case-studies, researchers in all three countries have interviewed Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran and Pentecostal women from the majority religion (Christianity), and Sunni and Shia women from a minority religion (Islam) within the three countries.

Femcit WP 6 researchers Tone Hellesund and Ana Cristina Santos have recently published chapters about Norway and Portugal, respectively, in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide (Chuck Stewart, ed., 2010, California: Greenwood Press/ ABC Clio).

Hilda Rømer Christensen, FEMCIT WP 7 researcher,  met with end users in Copenhagen, January 11th 2010, with an NGO group and the Danish minister for Equality, and January 25th 2010 with a range of end users from institutions and  equality units.

The goal of the meetings was twofold: To present the scope and preliminary outcomes of  FEMCIT and to discuss the applications and implications of gender-mainstreaming in advancing gender equality 

What kind of gender notions are implicated in Gender Mainstreaming?  And how is gender mainstreaming defined: as a concept, methodology, strategy etc?
Can gender mainstreaming be made more inclusive and contain other categories than gender? What are the gains and losses in the idea of equality mainstreaming versus gender mainstreaming?

How do the NGOs/Women’s movements and other agents in Danish and European Equality politics assess gender mainstreaming?

FEMCIT WP6 was recently represented at the international conference Families in Europe today.

The conference was a meeting place between researchers, NGO’s in the field of families, gender equality, lesbian and gay rights, and a variety of policy makers from EC and from different European countries.

Lenita Freidenvall, Drude Dahlerup and Monica Threlfall travelled to Santiago de Chile for the massive International Political Science Association (IPSA) conference, July 12-16 2009.

Drude Dahlerup spoke  on 'The use of different gender quotas in Arab politics' at the iKNOWpolitics conference in Amman, Jordan, October 27-28, 2009.

Lenita Freidenvall was a guest speaker and moderator at a Roundtable on Women’s Participation in Political Parties organized by OSCE-ODIHR (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) in Warsaw, June 23 -24, 2009.

Małgorzata Fuszara was a plenary speaker, organizer and moderator of the session 'Women in Politics' during the Women for Poland, Poland for Women Congress marking twenty years of transformations 1989-2009, in June 20-21, 2009.

Minna Seikkula: Childcare arrangements play a significant role when it comes to questions about women’s participation in society. But how have women’s movements contributed to childcare policies and who gets to decide what is good childcare?
Dr Solveig Bergman, Director of NIKK (Nordic Gender Institute) and the coordinator of Work Package 2 in FEMCIT on Social Citizenship, emphasises that the focus in the WP is on the impact of women’s movements and other gender-related organisations on childcare and parental leave in Europe.