William James Hall, B1, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Paula England, Silver Professor of Sociology: Director of Graduate Studies, New York University
Title: Do Highly Paid, Highly Skilled Women Experience the Largest Motherhood Penalty?
Paula England is Silver Professor of Sociology at NYU New York. One branch of England’s research concerns gender inequality at work and at home; she has written on the sex gap in pay, occupational segregation, how couples divide housework, and the wage penalty for motherhood. Her more recent work deals with...
CGIS Knafel, K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
This event is part of a series sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs provoking a conversation around the topic of comparative inequality and social inclusion. RSVP required.
Panelists
“Two Decades of Gender-Role Attitude Change in Europe” Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Chair, Department of...
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
This seminar explores the assumption of many cross-national studies that gender-role attitudes fall along a single continuum between traditional and egalitarian. Brinton analyzes over-time data from 18 European countries and identifies trajectories of attitudinal change. Brinton demonstrates that while traditional gender-role attitudes have precipitously and uniformly declined, European nations are not converging towards one dominant egalitarian model but instead are...
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Alexandra Killewald, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Could marriage be associated with increases in men’s wages? Recent research claims that men’s long-term wage benefits from marriage are as high as 20%. They begin prior to marriage, as they anticipate marriage or experience wage benefits of unmarried partnership. In this seminar, Killewald challenges those findings and argues instead that marriage has no causal effect on men’s wages in either the short- or long-term. Rather, research on the marriage...
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, Harvard Kennedy School
Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series
Gender Inequality persists to varying degrees across post-industrial economies. The seminar introduces the new Weatherhead Initiative at Harvard to study comparative gender inequality in OECD countries and outlines some of the major scholarly and policy challenges relating to the structure of work and its articulation with the family.
Speakers: Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Department Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University ...
