Gender Inequality: A Comparative View of the Challenges Ahead

Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Department Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University

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.