International Women's Day Jessie Street Lecture

This event was presented by the Women and Work Research  Group

Presenter

Dr Jeni Klugman
Managing Director at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

Presentation slides

• Gender Equality in the Workplace Beyond COVID-19

Abstract

This presentation will seek to bring together what we know about the gender dimensions of the future of work with the major structural shocks and various accelerations associated with the COVID pandemic.

Jeni will address the following questions:

• How can COVID be an opportunity to advance gender equality rather than reinforce existing inequalities?
• What does building back better mean in the workplace?

Biography

Dr Jeni Klugman is Managing Director at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and Senior Adviser at the Stanford University Center for Gender Equality. Jeni's previous positions include fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Women in Public Policy Program at Harvard University, Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank, and director and lead author of three global Human Development Reports published by the UNDP. Jeni has published over a dozen books and major global reports, and (co)authored over 70 articles in peer reviewed journals. Jeni has participated in major global gender policy initiatives, including the Lancet Series on Gender Equality; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s strategy on women’s economic empowerment; and the Council on Foreign Relations' Advisory Committee on economic inclusion and global growth. Jeni is currently a member of The Lancet Global Commission on Gender and Health and advising the World Bank on the gender dimensions of forced displacement. Jeni holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Australian National University and postgraduate degrees in both Law and Development Economics from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Jeni was included in the Apolitical Inaugural List of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in 2018 and in 2019.