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A Conversation with Martha Chen

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Speaker

  • Martha Chen
    Cofounder and International Coordinator, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO); Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Presider

  • Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
    Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy

From Women and Foreign Policy Program.

Martha Chen addresses the overrepresentation of women in the informal economy and the challenges they face – including low earnings and lack of social protections, which reinforce the cycle of poverty. She also discusses the resources women need to overcome these challenges and the strategic imperative for more inclusive and equitable policy.