About This Event:
Special Virtual Lecture: Care Work and the Care Economy
This event was held on August 21, 2025.
Care work touches EVERYONE - from child care, elder care, domestic care and beyond. Care work is the necessary but often invisible and undervalued engine that drives our economy, and women and other marginalized genders are holding up this work alone. Join WOMEN'S WAY for this special edition talk on the care economy with Dr. Nancy Folbre.
About Dr. Folbre
Nancy Folbre is Professor Emerita of Economics and 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 in the United States. 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 author of The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems (Verso, 2021), 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. She is a co-curator of, and regular contributor to the Care Talk blog at revaluingcare.org.
