# Event Details - **Event Name**: Holding it Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 17 Feb, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Tue, 17 Feb, 2026 at 03:30 pm - **Event Description**: Don't miss this lecture by renowned sociologist and author Dr. Jessica Calarco on the ways corporations profit on the unpaid labor of women.About this EventAbout the LectureJoin the UH College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Department of Sociology for a compelling exploration of Pr*son education's transformative power. Each year the Sociology Department sponsors a "Sociology in Action" (SIA) lecture event to highlight outstanding work in our field. The department strives to highlight timely topics in our ever-changing social world. For over a decade, this annual event emphasizes the connections between sociological research, application in our society, ethics in research, and academic leadership to tackle important social issues.Dr. Jessica Calarco will be speaking about how women have become America's crisis management team—tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. Drawing on extensive research—including longitudinal interviews, historical and media analyses, and national surveys—Holding It Together reveals how billionaires, big corporations, and their cronies use women’s unpaid and underpaid labor to maintain the illusion of a “DIY society,” making it seem as though we don’t need more public investment in sectors like childcare, eldercare, healthcare, education, and social welfare, because women are filling in the gaps.This event is open to the public and free to attend.About the SpeakerThe 2026 Sociology in Action guest lecture will be Dr. Jessica Calarco, Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net (Portfolio/Penguin, 2024). See more at: https://www.jessicacalarco.com/ - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/houston/holding-it-together-how-women-became-americas-safety-net/100001981867187107 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Houston - **state**: TX - **country**: United States - **location**: Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion (MD Anderson Library, 2nd floor) - **lat**: 29.7211622 - **long**: -95.3423169 - **full address**: Elizabeth D. 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