ATHENA
Athena 3 project 3A
Athena 2 project 3B
Equal opportunities
Women's news
International press coverage

Project managers

Martha Franken GKV - Equal Opportunities Flanders

Martha Franken is director in the staff services of the Flemish Government, in which the unit "Equal Opportunities in Flanders" is the service that supports and executes the Flemish Policy for the Minister, responsible for the Equal Opportunities Policy in Flanders.
She is also a member of the bureau of the Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men of the Council of Europe, and advisory member of the AOIFE council.
www.gelijkekansen.vlaanderen.be

 Martha Franken
Barbara Bagilhole

Barbara Bagilhole is Professor of Equal Opportunities and Social Policy and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. She has taught, researched and published extensively in the field of Equal Opportunities and Diversity legislation and policies across the areas of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief and age. Recent research has looked at women and science, engineering and technology, and other women in non-traditional occupations.

 Barbara Bagilhole
Anna Cabó - Center Francesca Bonnemaison

Anna Cabó is, since 2004, director of the Center Franscesca Bonnemaison and former director of the Library Francesca Bonnemaison.
Biblioteca Popular Francesca Bonnemaison (Francesca Bonnemaison Public Library), is probably the oldest women's library in the world. It was established in 1909 as a female sanctuary, evidence of the city's early 20th-century progressive attitudes and tendencies. For modern day feminists, the ideals of the founder Francesca Bonnemaison are anathema. She didn 't believe that women should be independent; but that "a woman's place is in the home with her family". Her motivation for founding a library was to educate women to be better wives and daughters.'
Today the bibliographical collection contains information on the development of the women's school and on a wide variety of subjects including religion, housekeeping, science and feminism.
www.bonnemaison-ccd.org

 Anna Cabo
Alison Woodward

Alison E. Woodward (PhD Sociology, University of California, Berkeley) is Research Professor at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and co-director of RHEA, the Centre for Gender Studies and Diversity Research. Since 2007 she has been a Senior Associate Fellow of the Institute for European Studies of the VUB. Her research interests are in the field of comparative European Union public policy and organization, focussing on civil society transnational mobilization, gender, migration, and equality. She is the Belgian coordinator for the Research Network on Gender Politics and the State and Belgian representative for COST Action A-34 on Gender and Well-Being.

 Alison Woodward
Chris Zwaenepoel

Chris Zwaenepoel is director of the RoSa (Role and Society) Documentation Centre, Library and Archives, that gathers and disseminates information and documentation on gender, feminism and women's studies.. and which is the biggest gender library in Belgium. She also runs the daily affairs of the Flemish House for Equal Opportunities, which is a meeting place for national and international diversity experts and where amongst other organisations the RoSa Library is situated.
www.rosadoc.be

 Chris Zwaenepoel