#504 - Gender Equality and Working Family Policy

This episode's guest Kristin Smith, the Rockefeller Center Policy Research Shop Director and Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College. Kristin Smith's research focuses on gender inequality, earnings and employment, and work and family policy. She has researched labor force issues, including gender differences in job tenure and shifting determinants of women's labor supply and the consequences of those shifts. In addition, Smith has studied occupational variation in earnings, job retention and job flexibility, with a focus on care workers and STEM workers. Smith also studies family policy, including paid family and medical leave, examining inequity in access and impacts on labor supply decisions. Smith's expertise lies in examining trends in how work and family life interconnect, developing workforce policy recommendations, and applying a gender lens to her analysis. She has a broad background in demography and sociology, has extensive experience in survey design and implementation, and is proficient at quantitative data analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal data. Interview by Dartmouth student Zoe McGuirk '25. Edited by Laura Hemlock. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy