Inequality Conference

The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

announces a day-long conference on Inequality.

Top-notch faculty lineup addressing questions of inequality in the contexts of gender and race, criminal justice and health care systems.

Panels include:

10:15 a.m. Inequality and Criminal Justice

session introduced by Roger Clay, President, The National Economic Development and Law Center

(Larry Bobo, session chair) -

Robert Weisberg, Bruce Western (Princeton)

12:30 p.m. Inequality and US Health Care

talk introduced by Hannah Valantine, senior associate dean, Stanford School of Medicine

o Clarence Braddock

1:30 p.m. The Changing Significance of Race in American Society

session introduced by Claude Steele, director -Stanford

Center for the Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity

(Matthew Snipp, session chair)- Joanna Mountain, David Harris (Cornell), Don Barr

3:20 p.m. Gender and Inequality

session introduced by David Grusky, director of the Stanford Center for Inequality

(Paula England, session chair)- Maria Charles (U.C. San Diego), Janet Gornick (City University of New York)