Gender Equality and the Economy: Interdisciplinary Approaches

The Gender Equality and the Economy Program of the Levy Economics Institute hosts a speaker series with practitioners and scholars across disciplines from around the globe to address the ever-relevant topic of “Gender Equality and the Economy.” Speakers will present their research and discuss differing approaches to economic analyses through a gender lens. The series highlights the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of how gender and economic inequalities intersect in history, policy, and the everyday.

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PREVIOUS EVENTS IN THE SERIES:

• Remittances, Immunization, and Gender: Polio and Girl Children in the Punjab
• “Working the Program”: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for Women
• What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Opportunities for Feminist Econometrics
• Queering Economics: Diversity and Inclusion in the Dismal Science
• Critiquing from the Margins: Examining the Power of Black Girls’ Critiques of Class-Based Disparities in Schools
• Free to Choose? The Gendered Impacts of Flexible Working Hours in Brazil
• Racial, Gender, and Regional Inequalities in Brazil’s Care Provision and the Evolving Role of the State
• Discussing Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought
• Towards a European Job Guarantee​
• Macroeconomic Policies and Care: Exploring Intersections​
• The Hindu Home Kitchen and the Internet of Landlords

[POSTPONED] Well-Being Costs of Unpaid Care: Gendered Evidence from a Contextualized Time-Use Survey in India

[CANCELED] Racial, Ethnic, and Sex/Gender Disparities in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias