Gender Equality and the Economy: Interdisciplinary Approaches

The Gender Equality and the Economy Program of the Levy Economics Institute hosts a speaker series with practitioners and scholars across disciplines from around the globe to address the ever-relevant topic of “Gender Equality and the Economy.” Speakers will present their research and discuss differing approaches to economic analyses through a gender lens. The series highlights the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the implications of how gender and economic inequalities intersect in history, policy, and the everyday.

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Critiquing from the Margins: Examining the Power of Black Girls’ Critiques of Class-Based Disparities in Schools

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Fourth Session: Thursday, March 28, from 5pm to 6pm

Social scientists have long attended to how Black and other marginalized groups articulate critiques of class exploitation and socioeconomic disparities. This research sheds light into the mechanisms through which Black individuals come to identify economic oppression and how they leverage these insights to engage in community and political organizing. Too often missing from this narrative, however, are the voices of Black youth, who not only face chronic unemployment but are also impacted by decades of urban and school divestment. In this talk, I turn to the voices and experiences of high school-aged Black girls to examine how they articulate the motivations and impact of educational funding inequities. I argue that Black girls display a keen awareness of the relationship between anti-Blackness and the chronic underfunding of public education, and document how their insights can offer us frameworks for moving from critical consciousness into action.

Jomaira Salas Pujols, PhD is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard College. Her research sits at the intersection of race, place, gender, and education. Her current book project, Black Girls Journeying, examines how Black girls draw on their movement through place to identify and challenge educational injustice—a concept she theorizes as journeying. Her research has been published in the Youth & Society journal and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation. Professor Salas Pujols’s other research interests include the study of Afro-Latina girlhood, Black girls’ perceptions of school dress codes, and the racialized legacies of punishment in school.  

UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE SERIES:

• Queering Economics: Diversity and Inclusion in the Dismal Science
• Free to Choose? The Gendered Impacts of Flexible Working Hours in Brazil

PREVIOUS EVENTS IN THE SERIES:

• Remittances, Immunization, and Gender: Polio and Girl Children in the Punjab
• “Working the Program”: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for Women
• What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Opportunities for Feminist Econometrics

[POSTPONED TO SPRING 2024] Well-Being Costs of Unpaid Care: Gendered Evidence from a Contextualized Time-Use Survey in India