Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Jocelyn Viterna, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.

Abstract
Recently, six Latin American nations have eliminated all legal exceptions to their already-strict anti-abortion laws. Yet despite passing increasing restrictions, only two of these six nations–El Salvador and Mexico–regularly send women to jail for committing abortion or abortion-related crimes. Why are new abortion laws enforced in some nations, but not in others?  Through a comparison of El Salvador and Nicaragua, this talk investigates why...

Read more about Jocelyn Viterna: Pregnancy and the Forty-Year Prison Sentence: Countermovements, Targets and the Institutionalization of Social Movement Outcomes in Central America

Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Seminar by Christine Schwartz, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  Read more about Christine Schwartz: The Changing Role of Mothers’ Status in Children’s College Completion

Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center

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Gender Inequality Workshop Graduate Student Presentations Read more about WIGi Graduate Student Presentations

Gender Inequality Workshop presentation by Sandra Levitsky, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan. Read more about Sandra Levitsky: Inventing Universal Public Preschool: The Politics of Welfare State Expansion on Neoliberal Terrain

Gender Inequality Workshop presentation by Kate Weisshaar, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Read more about Kate Weisshaar: Intermittent Employment as a Source of Bias? An Experimental Approach Examining Types of Discrimination

Gender Inequality Workshop presentation by Jennifer Peck, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Swarthmore College. Read more about Jennifer Peck: Overcoming Firm-Level Barriers to Female Integration in Saudi Arabia

Harvard-Yenching Institute - Book Talk

Lan Pei-Chia (Distinguished Professor of Sociology, National Taiwan University)
Chair: Andrew Gordon (Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard...

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Gender Inequality Workshop presentation by Jessica Pan, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore.

Joint Seminar with the Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School.

Read more about Jessica Pan: Gender Differences in Negotiation and Job Search: Evidence from Business Majors

Gender Inequality Workshop presentation by Alessandra González, Senior Research Associate, Department of Economics, University of Chicago. Read more about Alessandra González: Understanding and Shifting Global Gender Inequality

Gender Inequality Workshop presentation by Claudia Goldin, Member, Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality. Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University. Read more about Claudia Goldin: A Long Road: The Quest for Career and Family

Social Exclusion and Inclusion Seminar presentation by Agnès van Zanten – Senior Researcher Professor, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Co-director of “Equality of Opportunity” Chair, Sciences Po. Read more about Agnès van Zanten: Parent Strategies to Help Students Navigate Elite University Admissions

Social Demography Seminar presentation by Kristin Perkins, postdoctoral fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Read more about Kristin Perkins: Household composition and children’s educational attainment