Attend a transformative event designed to empower your career trajectory and impact organizational leadership. Learn to navigate and mitigate the assignment of low-impact tasks that can stunt professional growth, particularly for women.
Lise Vesterlund, an influential economist and co-author of The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work, will share insights and strategies from her research. Her work is grounded in the academic observation that women often receive disproportionate amounts of non-promotable tasks across sectors, including universities, where tasks like committee service and student advising can detract from research productivity.
By understanding the dynamics of task assignment in professional settings, managers can better allocate work that enhances individual careers and organizational effectiveness. This approach not only helps in setting clear boundaries but also ensures optimal use of talent, leading to improved productivity and job satisfaction. The event will provide tools for both individuals and leaders to prioritize impactful work, enhancing personal careers and contributing to the institution’s success. You'll also gain networking opportunities with peers facing similar challenges, fostering a supportive community to drive best practices forward.
Meet our speaker:
Lise Vesterlund (@lise_vesterlund) is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Behavioral Economics Design Initiative (BEDI) and of the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory (PEEL). She is the co-author of The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work. Lise is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin. She serves, and has served, on numerous editorial boards including the American Economic Review, AEJ: Economic Policy, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Economic Literature. She is the director of the Behavioral Economics Design Initiative (BEDI) and the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory (PEEL), and co-author of the acclaimed 2022 book The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work.
Vesterlund’s work on gender differences in the labor market sheds light on why men continue to be more successful than women in climbing the corporate ladder. She has demonstrated systematic gender differences in behavior when deciding whether to enter a competition or a negotiation, or when asked to perform a non-promotable task. In uncovering the drivers of these differences her work points to mechanisms that can be put in place to secure that the best qualified candidates are those promoted. Her research has been featured by scores of leading international publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Economist, and The Financial Times.
Meet our discussant:
Margaux is a fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the Department of Social Policy. I obtained my PhD in Economics from CY Cergy Paris University and ESSEC Business School. Her work focuses on gender inequalities in education and in the labor market, exploring important questions such as: Why are girls underrepresented in STEM tracks, especially those related to technology? What is the role of norms and culture in explaining this gap? Can beliefs about women and workplace conditions partly explain the inequalities we are seeing today in the labor market?
Meet our chair:
Almudena Sevilla (@Sevilla_Almu) is Professor of Economic and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at LSE and is currently the Founding Chair of the Royal Economic Society UK Women in Economics Network and the LSE Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub. She has also held positions at University College London, Queen Mary University, University of Oxford, University of Essex, and the Congressional Budget Office in Washington DC. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2004 in the fields of family and population economics and econometrics.
Almudena has a successful track-record in gender economics research. Early in her career, she received the prestigious Marie J. Langlois Prize for her doctoral research on gender economics and the status of women in the academic field. Her research is regularly published in top-tier international journals such as the American Economic Review, Demography, and the Journal of Labor Economics. She also serves on the editorial boards of leading journals including Feminist Economics and Review of the Economics of the Household. Her work has attracted substantial research funding, including the highly competitive European Research Council Consolidator Grant of over £2M. Professor Sevilla holds key leadership positions in major economic associations, has recently been elected President of the Society of the Economics of the Household, and is a sought-after speaker at leading academic and policy forums where she discusses women's roles in the economy.
More about this event
The Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub (WISPPRH) (@WISPPRH) at the LSE Department of Social Policy (@LSESocialPolicy) informs social and public policies that improve women’s outcomes and reduce inequalities. We bring together scholars carrying out research on the causes and consequences of gender inequality in education, labour markets and the family.