"Measuring Gendered Poverty: Methodology and Morality" will be presented by Alison Jaggar from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct 17, in 127 Jabara Hall. Jaggar is a University of Colorado-Boulder College Professor of Distinction and Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies Research Coordinator, University of Oslo Center for the Study of Mind in Nature. She's also a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham, UK.
This talk explains some of the intertwined moral and methodological dimensions of a feminist research project aiming to produce a better standard or metric for measuring poverty across the world. More information is available at http://www.genderpovertymeasure.org