Research is Essential If We Really Want to Close Gender Gaps
On March 12, the London School of Economics will host the international workshop “Closing Gender Gaps: Evidence and Policy Interventions”. The event, organized jointly by the LSE's Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub, the NYUAD Inequality Cluster, and Bocconi University's AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality, will bring together scholars and public decision-makers with the aim of understanding which policies really work in reducing gender gaps.
The program addresses two key issues. First, labor market dynamics: selection processes, implicit barriers, corporate and institutional rules that influence careers and salaries. On the other hand, family choices and the organization of private life: parental leave, distribution of care work, economic expectations, and their impact on career trajectories. The common thread is methodological rather than political: bringing solid empirical evidence to the center of the debate, that may lead to measurable and verifiable actions. This is where the AXA Research Lab Bocconi, directed by Paola Profeta and supported by the AXA Research Fund and AXA Italia, gets involved.