Thursday, March 6
7:30-9:00 PM
Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church
2650 148th Ave. SE
Bellevue, WA
This free public forum will focus on women and economics, specifically the impact of women’s changing roles and strategies for achieving economic security and personal fulfillment. Our world is changing rapidly, and with it, societal structures for women and the choices available to them.
Speaker: Elaina Rose, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Washington
Elaina Rose's research and teaching focus on labor economics, economics of the family and the economics of gender. Dr. Rose's earlier work examined the effect of economic conditions on excess female mortality in India. She has written several papers on the effect of child gender on household behavior in both India and the United States. The National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health have funded her work on the relationship between parenthood and labor market outcomes and on shifts in marriage patterns in the later twentieth century. Her current research interest is the relationship between family background and military service. Dr. Rose is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Women Studies and an affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences and the South Asia Center. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993.