The goal of the meeting is to analyse how the content of gender roles and egalitarian norms vary across cultures and which cultural and contextual factors lead to support of gender equality. The focal questions of the conference concern the following issues: How can social change in values and attitudes toward gender equality be fostered? What is the role of the culture in forming gender equality within couples, families, organizations and societies as a whole? And finally, how can we investigate the mutual influences of individual motivations and cultural change, when individuals/couples migrate to more egalitarian countries than their home country?

We welcome individual papers, posters as well as whole symposiums from both researchers and practitioners from different disciplines doing cultural and cross-cultural research relating to gender issues, culture and migration (psychology, sociology, education, gender studies).

The following are thematic suggestions (but not limited to) - topics for the conference:

ü     gender stereotypes & culture

ü     social change and gender roles

ü     cultural cues promoting gender equality

ü     women and men in migration

ü     gender equality and migration

ü     gender & acculturation processes

ü     marriage, family, parenting, & gender roles in cultural context

ü     parenting in migration

ü     migrant families and public sector

ü     work-life balance strategies – individual, couple, family, organizational perspectives

ü     gender mainstreaming

ü     discrimination

ü     interventions promoting gender equality