Rosalba Todaro

President-Elect

Centro de Estudios de la Mujer
Santiago, Chile

Rosalba Todaro is an Economist and Senior Researcher at the Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (Women's Studies Center) in Santiago, Chile. She studied Economics at the University of Buenos Aires and completed her master and doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in spatial economics, an area in which she worked until 1979, when she changed her field of research to Gender studies.

As one of the founding members of Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, a research based non government organization focused on gender studies; she does research in the Area of Economics, Gender and Work. Rosalba teaches Gender Economics In the Master's Program of PRIGEPP/FLACSQ (Regional Program on Gender and Public Policies/Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences). Rosalba's research has covered a range of subjects related to gender, globalization, and the conditions that women face both in the labor market and In non-remunerated work. Currently she is doing research in time use issues oriented to analyzing the conflicts of time that emerge from the contradictions between the organization of working processes and the social organization of care. Additionally she is working in the Project "Latin-American migrants in the Global Care Chains" (UN-I1MSTRAW 2008-2009), in charge of the Chilean Chapter. Rosalba has also developed public policy projects for national and international institutions and has advised SERNAM (the Chilean government agency for gender policies) and led the team that formulated the "National Plan for Equal Opportunities between Men and Women" 1994-1999 and 2000-2010".

Rosalba has been a member of IAFFE since 1996 and has served on the IAFFE board from 2006 to 2009. Currently she is also a member of the Editorial Board of Feminist Economics. Participation in the Latin American Labor Studies Association (ALAST), where she is a member of the Board of Directors is also Rosalba's service work.