COSME is a subcommittee of the Spanish Economic Association founded to monitor the status of women in the economics profession and to undertake activities that improve their position.
Among other activities, in the Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía (SAEe) - the annual meeting of the Spanish Economic Association - COSME sponsors the COSME Invited Lecture and promotes COSME Sessions in which the topic of research is gender economics. In addition, COSME offers a day-care children service. More information here.
Since 2010, COSME also organizes jointly with FEDEA a workshop for those junior and senior researchers interested in gender economics.
If you are interested in becoming a member of COSME we invite you to join us.
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COSME-FEDEA Workshop 2012
The next edition of the Workshop on Gender Economics will take place in Madrid, on May 24-25 2012. The aim of the Workshop is to provide junior and senior researchers interested in gender economics a forum for the presentation and discussion of research papers representing current advances in the field. For more details, visit http://www.genderworkshop.com.
COSME at the SAEe 2011
The past Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía (SAEe), was held in Málaga, Spain, on 15-17 December 2011. The COSME invited lecture was on Friday 16 December 2011, 13:00 - 14:00, in Room Paraninfo by Rachel Kranton (Duke University and Paris School of Economics): Beyond Money and Markets: Networks and Identity in Economics.
In addition, the Spanish Economic Association, through COSME, aims at fostering high-quality research on gender issues. For this purpose, there were five COSME Sessions at the SAEe 2011, in which the general topic of research was gender economics.
The papers presented in these sessions followed the same refereeing process as all other submissions to the SAEe.
COSME SESSION I: FAMILY ECONOMICS (Job Market Session)
Thursday 15 December, 16:30 - 18:15, Room 22
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COSME SESSION II: FAMILY ECONOMICS (Contributed Session)
Thursday 15 December, 18:15 - 19:30, Room 21
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COSME SESSION III: GENDER ECONOMICS (Job Market Session)
Friday 16 December, 09:00 - 10:45, Room 27
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COSME SESSION IV: GENDER ECONOMICS (Contributed Session)
Friday 16 December, 11:15 - 13:00, Room 27
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COSME SESSION V: MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE (Contributed Session)
Saturday 17 December, 09:00 - 10:45, Room 26
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White Paper on The Position of Women in Science in Spain
Results from the work titled “White Paper on The Position of Women in Science in Spain”
were presented in a Poster Session at the XXXV Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía, held in Madrid in 15-17 December 2010. The whole work is available here.
HOT TOPICS
- Birgit Grodal Award: The EEA agreed to institute a prize to a European-based female economist who has made a significant contribution to the Economics profession. The first award winner will be announced in May 2012. More information here.
- Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession: the Fall 2011 edition of the American Economic Association’s Committee is available here.
- Marta Reynal-Querol wins the 2011 Fundación Banco Herrero Award.
