Nava Bolaños, I. (2014). The Future Research Agenda on Unpaid Work and Family. Estudios Demográficos Y Urbanos, 29(3), 621–635. https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v29i3.1473
As part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies (cedua) and the Permanent Seminar of Dialogues and Reflections on Population, City and Environment, on February 28, 2014, the session on “The Future Research Agenda for Unpaid Work and Family” was held in the Alfonso Reyes auditorium at El Colegio de México. The primary focus of this meeting, organized by Brígida García and Edith Pacheco, researchers affiliated to this institution, was to hear the proposals of María de la Paz López Barajas (regional advisor to theUnited Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women –unWomen–), María Angeles Durán (sociology professor and researcher at the Departmentof Economics of the Center for Human and Social Sciences at the Higher Council forScientific Research of Spain –csic–) and Paulo Saad (Head of the Department of Populationand Development of the Latin American and Caribbean Center of Demography–Celade-, at the Population Division of the Economic Commission for Latin Americaand the Caribbean –cepal–) in relation to unpaid work, family and the global economy.The aim was also to create a space for reflection on theoretical and methodological approaches,empirical results and pending issues that will shape future research. This reportprovides a summary of the authors’ presentations and summarizes the discussions andreflections they elicited among the audience.
