Dear RSF:

Please join us in the library on Wednesday, September 12, for the first seminar of the year, given by guest speaker Alexandra Killewald. Killewald is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research takes a demographic approach to the study of social stratification. Much of her work focuses on the work-family intersection, including the ways in which earnings and employment shape women’s time in household labor, and the effect of marriage and parenthood on workers’ wages. Her research also engages questions regarding the distribution of U.S. wealth. She has written on the role of parental wealth in explaining the Black-White wealth gap, as well as the influence of parental wealth on spouse choice. Killewald is also co-author of Is American Science in Decline? (2012), which documents trends in the size of the scientific workforce, public attitudes toward science, youth interest in science, the production of scientific degrees, and transitions to scientific employment. She received her PhD in Public Policy/Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2011.

The title of her talk is: “Tethered Lives: Parenthood, Partnership, and Gender Inequality in the U.S.”