Youth Track “Countries of the World: Youth Initiatives for Sustainable Development”
“Ancestor Syndrome”: Is it possible to overcome inequality of opportunities for younger generation in Latin America and the Caribbean (The case of Peru and Ecuador)
SDG 5
November 21, 14:00-17:00
Main Building, Hall 1
About the event
The seminar will examine how strong the transmission of socio-economic status is between generations in Latin America and the Caribbean and what underlies it - income inequality, access to education, or inherited circumstances which people cannot control, such as race, gender, or family background. Is it possible to overcome the ancestor syndrome?
MS
- Margarita Smolkina
- Student Research Specialist, Institute of Foreign Languages, RUDN University
Experts
- Talia Randa Esnard
- Head of the Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
- Herminia Rodríguez Pacheco
- Representative for Gender Equality of the Ministry of Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba, Cuba
- Natalia Erokhova
- Deputy Director for Science, Institute of Foreign Languages, RUDN University, Member of the International Sociological Association ISA, Russia
Organizers, Partners
- Ministry of Higher Education of Cuba, Cuba
- University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
- RUDN University, Institute of Foreign Languages, Russia