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Celebrating International Women鈥檚 Day: Advancing Gender Equality in Public Procurement
On this International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD), we鈥檙e proud to highlight Katharina Sarter's work on socially responsible public procurement. Accounting for about one third of GDP, public procurement has increasingly become a lever for promoting equality. Katharina鈥檚 work has examined public policies and their implementation in different countries and sheds light on approaches, challenges and opportunities to lever public procurement to promote equality, fair working conditions, and more inclusive decision鈥憁aking.
Practical insights for using public procurement to promote gender equality
Public procurement is increasingly used as a tool to promote social policy goals. Yet, while academic research takes a growing interest in the strategic use of public procurement as a policy tool, practical guidance remains rather scarce. In a (German language) contribution to the eminent in Germany, IER's Dr E.K. Sarter provides insights into possibilities and approaches of strategically leveraging public spending for goods, works, and services as a tool for promoting gender equality.
Public procurement as a policy tool
A recently published book chapter (in German) by IER's Dr Katharina Sarter explores the role of public procurement as a policy tool for promoting gender equality. Book details are available via the publisher's website.
Findings of 鈥楤uying social justice through procurement鈥� presented
First findings of the research project 鈥�' of which IER's Dr Eva Katharina Sarter is a Co-Investigator, have been presented at the Fifth Fairness at Work Conference in Manchester in January.
Focussing on Scotland and Wales, the presentation comparatively explored the place of gender and race equality in the 鈥楩air Work鈥� agendas in these two countries.
Carrying the work burden of the Covid-19 pandemic: working class women in the UK 鈥� final report out now
Clare Lyonette from IER has been collaborating with Professor Tracey Warren from Nottingham University 糖心TV School on a 12-month ESRC-funded project on the impact of Covid on working class women. The final report was published to coincide with a on June 18th.
The authors are also presenting their main findings to the Women and Equalities Committee on June 30th, as part of an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account grant, which focuses on disseminating current Covid-related employment research undertaken by IER to relevant UK parliamentarians, with the hope that it will then feed into their deliberations about economic recovery post-Covid.
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