Gender Inequality: A Comparative View of the Challenges Ahead with Mary Brinton and Claudia Goldin

Date: 

Friday, November 20, 2015, 11:40am to 1:00pm

Location: 

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
Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University
A podcast of the event is available here.