Special Event | Gender Equality: It's About Time

Date: 

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 1:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)

Gender Equality: It's About Time

This conference is part of the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality. For more information including full schedule and speaker information, please visit the WIGi website or see below.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

Conference Schedule, Day 1

1:00pm Welcome by Faculty of the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality (WIGi)

Setting the Stage: How Time Is Used 

1:15 – 1:45pm "It’s About Time: Gender, Parenthood and Time Allocation"
Maria StanforsProfessor, Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden.

1:45 – 2:15pm "Out of Time: Resilience in Nonstandard Schedules"
Melinda MillsNuffield Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

2:15 – 2:45pm Q&A

2:45 – 3:15pm Break

Identifying Impacts: Family and Work

3:15 – 3:45pm "Children’s and Adolescents’ Time Use in Spain: Do Mothers’ and Fathers’ Work Schedules Matter?"
Pablo GraciaAssistant Professor of Sociolgoy, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

​3:45 – 4:15pm "A Stalled Revolution for Whom? Change in Women’s Labor Force Participation, 1988–2015"
Jennifer HookAssociate Professor of Sociology, Spatial Sciences and Gender Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California.

4:15 – 5:00pm Q&A and Discussion led by WIGI faculty

5:00 – 6:15pm Reception