Factory Girls: Women and Work in Egypt and China
Event Sponsored by Brandeis Economics Department, Brandeis Journalism Program, Brandeis Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Ellen Lasher Kaplan ’64 and Robert S. Kaplan Endowment for Economic Growth.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
4pm-5:30pm EST
Mandel Forum, located in the atrium of Mandel Center for the Humanities
About the Event
What happens to working women in countries where traditional culture wrestles with globalization? Come hear award-winning writer Leslie T. Chang compare how women in China and Egypt struggle with competing demands of work and community.
About the Speaker
Leslie T. Chang has written about women in the developing world for two decades. Her book Factory Girls was named a New York Times Notable Book and has been translated into ten languages. Chang is a recipient of the PEN USA Literary Award, the Asian American Literary Award, the Tiziano Terzani International Literary Prize, the Quality Paperback Book Club New Visions Award, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship. From 2011 to 2016, Chang lived and worked in Cairo, Egypt. Prior to that, Chang worked in China as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and National Geographic. She lives in southwestern Colorado.