Women’s and Gender Studies – Brown Bag Lunch Series:
Rachel Elfenbein
PhD candidate in Sociology at Simon Fraser University and former Fulbright fellow to Venezuela
“They Want Our Work, But Not Our Power: Women’s Unpaid Labor in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution”
In 1999, Venezuela became the first country in the world to constitutionally recognize the value of unpaid housework and specifically entitle homemakers to social security. She will discuss how this landmark constitutional provision affected poor homemakers and gender relations in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian government.
Monday April 14 12-1pm
Lee 414
Bring your own lunch and we will provide water and soft drinks
