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Date: March 28, 1997
University of Massachusetts Professor Speaks
on Women and Welfare at the Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton, N.J. -- Nancy Folbre, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, will give a lecture entitled "Who Cares? Women, Welfare, and the Devaluation of Caring Labor" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, April 3, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 6, at 4:30 p.m.
Folbre's research interests are in the area of feminist economics, focusing particularly on women and their families. She is the author or editor of numerous books in this area, including The Economics of the Family (1996) and Who Pays for the Kids? Gender and the Structures of Constraint (1994). In 1989 the National Science Foundation awarded Folbre a grant for her project, "Women's Work and Women's Households in Western Massachusetts, 1880 1910," which resulted in three published articles: "Women on Their Own: New Measures of Change in 19th Century U.S. Households" for the journal Continuity and Change (1991); "The Unproductive Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth Century Economic Thought" for Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society (1991); and "Women's Market Participation in the Late 19th Century: A Methodology for Revising Estimates," co-authored with Marjorie Abel, for Social Research (1990).
Additionally, Folbre has served as a consultant for a variety of organizations, including the Population Council (1989 94); the World Bank (1994 95); the International Labour Office (1992); the Zimbabwe Energy Planning Project at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (1983); and the Kenya Fuelwood Project (1981), also at the Royal Swedish Academy. Last year she worked with the MacArthur Foundation planning meetings for a possible research network on gender and families.
Folbre's lecture is sponsored by the Welfare Reform Lecture Series and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.