Exacerbating Inequality: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Work

The State of Gender Equality – #GenderGaps with Dr Aparna Mathur on Exacerbating Inequality: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Work

Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC) at IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to

The State of Gender Equality 
#GenderGaps 

Exacerbating Inequality: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Work

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: March 31, 2021
Time: 6:30 PM IST / 9:00 AM ET
Platform: Zoom and Facebook live

Speaker:

Dr Aparna Mathur
Senior Manager, Economics, Amazon

Aparna Mathur is a Senior Manager in Economics at Amazon. In this role, she tracks and conducts research to help identify labor and employment related challenges faced by Amazon’s domestic and global workforce, with a view to informing best policy. Prior to Amazon, she spent a year as a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. She joined the Council as part of the COVID-19 response task force at the peak of the crisis in April 2020 and worked with epidemiologists on the health aspects of the crisis, while also tracking the economic downturn that came with the lockdowns.

Prior to joining CEA, for fifteen years, she was a resident scholar in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. At AEI, she directed the AEI-Brookings Project on Paid Family and Medical Leave, building bipartisan momentum on paid leave, for which she was recognized in the Politico 50 list for 2017. She also co-authored a novel empirical paper on the incidence of the corporate income tax on workers, which became a prominent policy debate during the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. Her academic research has focused on income inequality and mobility, tax policy, labor markets and small businesses.

She has published in several top scholarly journals including the Journal of Public Economics, the National Tax Journal  and the Journal of Health Economics, testified several times before Congress and published numerous articles in the popular press on issues of policy relevance, including on her own blog at Forbes. Her work has been cited in leading news magazines such as the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. She has regularly provided commentary on prominent radio and television shows such as NPR’s Marketplace and the Diane Rehm Show, as well as CNBC and C-SPAN. 

She has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2005, and is currently serving on the University of Maryland Economics Leadership Council. She is also on the Board of the National Academy of Social Insurance as well as the National Economists Club.

Discussant:

Ms Suhela Khan
Lead, EU’s WeEmpowerAsia Programme, UN Women; Ford Fellow

Suhela has an extensive experience in management of large-scale transformational programmes on women’s economic empowerment. She aims to integrate feminist principles and strategies in programmes to enable women to recognize and challenge discrimination and gender based violence; as a pre-requisite to advance their economic rights. Her expertise lies in the areas of programme development, implementation, monitoring, measuring impact and partnership building.  
She has previously worked with Central and State Government and currently, at UN Women, she is leading the EU’s WeEmpowerAsia Programme. The programme aims at enabling women to access business and leadership opportunities in the private sector. Her experience has enabled her to develop a close understanding of the intersectionality of gender and other forms of identity, and the challenges faced by them. She has provided technical inputs and edited several publications on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment.
Suhela is a Ford Fellow and holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan.

Moderator:

Dr Simi Mehta
CEO & Editorial Director, IMPRI

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