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Gender Inequality: A Comparative View of the Challenges Ahead with Mary Brinton and Claudia Goldin
Gender Inequality: A Comparative View of the Challenges Ahead with Mary Brinton and Claudia Goldin
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Length:
70 minutes
Released:
Nov 20, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
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 and Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Released:
Nov 20, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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