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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Kristen McNeil of the Geneva Graduate Institut
 e.\n\nAbstract:  Access to finance is increasingly crucial for individuals
  and businesses\, and virtually always involves a financial intermediary a
 s the connection point between resource-rich institutions and the people s
 eeking access. Understanding the work of these intermediaries is of partic
 ular importance when considering the profound gender inequalities in acces
 s to finance. Using interviews and observational data with loan officers a
 t a microlender in Colombia\, I investigate how financial intermediaries c
 ome to their highly consequential decisions in the face of limited informa
 tion and a high degree of uncertainty. I find that loan officers draw heav
 ily on a gendered cultural schema – which I term the ideal borrower – to c
 onnect family with expected financial behavior\, and that this schema rewa
 rds patriarchal\, heteronormative family structures over others. As a resu
 lt\, the ideal borrower both draws on and reinforces existing gender roles
  and inequalities in access to finance. These findings demonstrate how fin
 ancial evaluations can be gender-neutral in theory but deeply gendered in 
 practice\, speak to how cultural and financial factors intersect to shape 
 evaluations\, and connect to broader conversations about the cultural foun
 dations of economic inequalities.\n
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LOCATION:Room 160\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue 
 Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Gender and Microfinance in Colombia
URL:/isid/channels/event/gender-and-microfinance-colom
 bia-353174
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