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Knock on Wood: Harvesting the potential of gender balanced forestry management ...

 

August 2005 sees the first meeting in the Southern Hemisphere of the Gender Research in Forestry Unit of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO). Our Unit is dedicated to identifying, explaining and redressing the continuing gender inequities in the forestry industry throughout the world. Of particular importance is the need to have management actually implement the often present ‘family friendly’ policies; something that appears to be poorly handled at many levels. To this end, the meeting will have a particular emphasis on gender imbalance at the management level – is there a ‘wood’ ceiling? Through presentations and workshops a range of issues will be investigated.
 

Knock on Wood: Harvesting the potential of gender balanced forestry management ...
will be held at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat in the Lamington National Park from 4th to 7th August. The meeting has three major themes: identifying the current situation with respect to gender equity issues in the forest workplace, presenting research into gender and equity issues, and designing and implementing management policy for gender equity in the forest workplace. It is hoped that men and women from many countries will attend this meeting, and that the workshop activities will produce ways forward to address the current gender imbalances apparent in the forestry industry throughout the world. We would really like participation from people in other disciplines who have faced gender equity issues and overcome them. The venue is a wonderful environmental retreat and promises to provide a relaxing background for our discussions.
 

Further information can be obtained from Janet Chaseling
 

email: J.Chaseling@griffi th.edu.au
phone: (07) 3875 7515
 

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