The Status of Women in Australia and Canada

This conference is about women's legal and economic status in two multicultural societies and directs attention to the experiences of mainstream, ethnic and Indigenous women. Participants, researchers, legal and social work practitioners and postgraduate students, can present their research as either 20 minute papers or contributions to roundtables on topics including, but not restricted
to, the following:

* the consequences of women's subordinate legal status in the colonial and postcolonial property regimes of Canada and
Australia,
* poverty & women,
* sex-based wage disparity, and
* marriage, divorce & women's economic status.

Send an abstract of approximately 100 words, with a brief CV, specifying audio-visual needs, etc., with a return email address, by 30 January 2002 by post or email to Dr Nancy E. Wright.

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