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Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment

Date
Wed February 16th 2022, 12:00 - 1:00pm
Event Sponsor
Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Location
Virtual Event
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment

In Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment, author Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Rao, a former Clayman Institute postdoctoral fellow, is a sociologist and  assistant professor of methodology at the London School of Economics.

About the Speaker

Aliya Hamid Rao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Rao's research focuses on gender inequalities in the institutions of work and family. She has been published in leading peer reviewed journals such as Gender & Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociological Methods and Research and Work, Employment and Society. Her research has been covered by media outlets such as the New York Times, the Financial Times, Huffington Post, and BBC.