Gender Equality at Work: Lessons from Around the World

What does gender equality at work really look like, and how would you measure it? Embark on a global journey through three places operating by very different rules: Australia, sub-Saharan Africa, and India. In each one, inequality works differently and the solutions that help in one region, aren’t necessarily impactful in another.

Suneha Seetahul leads the development of Australia's Gender Equality at Work Index and brings over a decade of applied research to bear on one big question: what does it actually take to make work more equal for women?

Bio

Suneha Seetahul is an applied microeconomist at the University of Sydney with over a decade of experience in gender, labour markets, and development economics. She uses hard data, including microeconometric methods, geospatial analysis, and linked survey and administrative records, to measure gendered inequality at work and understand why it persists. She leads the quantitative development of the Gender Equality at Work Index and has published in World Development, Social Science and Medicine, and the Journal of Development Studies. Her research takes her from Australian workplaces to sub-Saharan Africa to informal labour markets in India, tracking issues that most policymakers want to solve but persist across time and space.

Event

Thursday 7 May, 6:30 – 7:15 PM @Bank Hotel, 324 King St, Newtown NSW 2042

The other talk at this location is The hidden connections that build climate resilience at 8:00 – 8:45 PM