2017 Global Carework Summit

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Nancy Folbre is Director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Senior Fellow of the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College.

Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work.

In addition to numerous articles published in academic journals, she is the editor of "For Love and Money: Care Work in the U.S." (Russell Sage, 2012), and the author of "Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas" (Oxford, 2009), "Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family" (Harvard, 2008), and "The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values" (New Press, 2001). She has also written widely for a popular audience, including contributions to the New York Times Economix blog, The Nation, and the American Prospect.

Shahra Razavi is the Chief of the Research & Data Section at UN Women, where she is research director of UN Women’s flagship report, Progress of the World’s Women. She specializes in the gender dimensions of development, with a particular focus on work, social policy and care.

Her recent publications include "Seen, Heard and Counted: Rethinking Care in a Development Context" (special issue of Development and Change, 2011), "Underpaid and Overworked: A Cross-national Perspective on Care Workers" (with Silke Staab, special issue of International Labour Review, 2010), and "The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards ‘Embedded Liberalism’" (2009, Routledge, New York).

Prior to joining UN Women Shahra was a senior researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), and Visiting Professor at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies at Universities of Bern and Fribourg. Shahra received her Bachelors in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and her Masters and Doctorate (D.Phil.) in Agricultural Economics from Oxford University.

Thank you to our generous sponsors!

Platinum Sponsors ($1000+)

• Rollins College
• Touro College Graduate School of Social Work

Gold Sponsors ($500-999)

• The Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University
• Adelphi University

Silver Sponsors ($250-499)

• Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston
• Labor Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell

Additional financial support provided by UMass Lowell’s College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.

Questions?

Questions about the Global Summit may be directed to carework.network@gmail.com.

Note: if you are interested in reduced registration in exchange for volunteering at the conference, please email Amy Armenia.