Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series

Hadas Mandel Levy Ph.D. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University   Within the extensive and variegated research on welfare states and gender, the diversity among women is not commonly highlighted. In this lecture, Dr. Mandel will draw from the literature on welfare state policies, gender, and class in order to stress the importance of class distinction for understanding how welfare state policies affect the life chances of women.  Dr. Hadas Mandel heads the Pollak Program for Excellence for doctoral students in the social sciences at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on cross-country variations in gender inequality, their relationship to class inequality, and the role of the welfare state. She also studies the motherhood penalty within a cross-country comparative perspective and the role of gender in wage inequality between occupations. Selected publications on these topics have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Social Politics, and the British Journal of Sociology. This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Research on Families' Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of Economics and the Center for Public Policy and Administration. The Tay Gavin Erickson Lectures Series brings internationally recognized speakers with expertise in family research to campus each year. The lecture series began in 1999 through an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson.