Nancy Folbre, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, will give a presentation at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 23, in Chapman Auditorium at Trinity University.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Dr. Folbre is an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics and on the staff of the Center for Popular Economics. She is also an advisor to numerous organizations, including the Population Council, the World Bank, and the International Labor Office. A Defense Manual . The event is sponsored by the Trinity University Lecturers and Visiting Scholars Committee, the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program, the departments of business administration, economics, philosophy, sociology and anthropology, and the women s studies program.