Research Scholar Rania Antonopoulos is the director of the Gender Equality and the Economy program at the Levy Institute. She specializes in gender and economics, and international competition and globalization. She has served as an expert adviser and consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and, since 2002, a principal investigator for and coordinator of the GEM-IWG Knowledge Networking Program on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics. Her publications include:

• “The Intersection of Paid and Unpaid Care Work,” Integration Working Paper Series, International Labour Organization, forthcoming 2008;
• “State, Difference, Diversity: Toward a Path of Expanded Democracy and Gender Equality,” in Democracy, State, and Citizenship in Latin America, Vol. II (in Spanish), UNDP, 2008;
• Commentary on L. B. Shaw’s “Differing Prospects for Women and Men: Young Old-Age, Old Old-Age, and Eldercare,” in D. B. Papadimitriou, ed., Government Spending on the Elderly, 2007; and
• “Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand” (with M. Floro), Journal of Income Distribution, 2005.

In 2007, Antonopoulos oversaw the launch of an interactive website as groundwork for the knowledge-sharing initiative Economists for Full Employment; EFE seeks to link and mobilize a global community of economists, academics, public policy advocates, and nongovernmental organizations, with the principal objective of placing decent job creation at the center of development and macroeconomic strategies. She more recently headed up a team of Levy Institute researchers studying the impact of public employment guarantee schemes (EGS) on pro-poor development and gender equality. The project, supported by a grant from the UNDP, consisted of a pilot study exploring the synergies between EGS and unpaid work—including unpaid care work—in India and South Africa.