Five conferences of busy women in science, economics and politics they have been underway since February at the Accademia dei Lincei on some major themes of our time. It's about Fabiola Gianotti, first female director general of CERN; Emanuelle Charpentier, director of the Max Planck Institute in Berlin; Elena Cattaneo, director of the laboratory of the University of Milan on the biology of stem cells and the pharmacology of neurodegenerative diseases; Lynx Bina Agarwal, winner of the prestigious 2017 Balzan Prize for Gender Studies; Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.
Il 9 March it will be the turn of Bina Agarwal, an Indian national development economist who has achieved worldwide notoriety for his studies that have shown how gender equality leads to a significant increase in agricultural productivity and food security in developing countries. In his lectio Agarwal will focus his attention on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN, the most ambitious attempt at social inclusion on a global scale, combining economic, social and environmental aspects, in a gender perspective.
Themes that Agarwal also spoke about on the occasion of Interdisciplinary Forum of the Balzan Prize Winners. His intense relationship, entitled The Challenge of Gender Inequality you can listen , promising.
Among the various positions held during her life, Bina Agarwal was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) in the two-year period 2004-2005. As winner of the Balzan Prize she is now required to allocate half of the premium for project financing research conducted preferably by young male and female researchers. As a starting point for this activity as a patron, he established an IAFFE prize for books capable of indicating new ways of doing research, both theoretical and empirical, in the field of gender studies applied to the economy.
We like to note that the award was named after Suraj Mai and Shyama Devi Agarwal, Agarwal's parents, as an act of gratitude for two people who "have dedicated their lives to supporting, with great generosity, young women in achieving their dreams, that is, obtaining an adequate education to achieve real intellectual excellence". A dedication that goes beyond simple filial love.
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