Gender

In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Nancy Folbre discusses her recent study, which looks at why care services providers have relatively low pay compared to workers in business services with equivalent levels of education.

D. Tisch and M. Schechtl. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 68. 2023.

Ryan Smith, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, examines persistent inequalities by gender and race in the workplace and the central role of people in positions of authority, and their mis/understandings of racial inequality, for achieving meaningful diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco, R. Vélez-Grajales, and G. Yalonetzky. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 61. 2023.

In this post, Janet Gornick and Branko Milanovic discuss the results of their study, "In Search of the Roots of American Inequality Exceptionalism: An Analysis Based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data,” an examination of what underlies the high level of income inequality in the U.S.

E. Bar-Haim, L. Chauvel, J. Gornick, and A. Hartung. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 60. 2022.

The Reducing Inequality Network program is a collaboration among faculty and graduate students at the Stone Center, Columbia, and NYU.

J. Gornick and E. Sierminska. Journal of European Social Policy. vol. 31, no. 5. pp. 549–564. 2021.

In this interview, Jaquelyn Jahn discusses two of her recently published papers, which examine the effects of policing, and police violence, on vulnerable groups: teenagers and pregnant women.

In this commentary, Nancy Folbre, director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the unequal impact of remote work on women.