Nordic Innovation Series: A Conversation on the Hidden Value of Care
Tickets: $10, $15
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Sept 24, 2026
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
General Admission: $15.00
Members: $10.00
For centuries this has been written off as “women's work”: essential, invisible, and unpaid. Danish writer and feminist economist Emma Holten exposes a fundamental flaw in our value and economic systems, designed centuries ago to overlook care work.
Holten’s international bestseller Deficit: The Hidden Value of Care
reveals how the economic models that drive political decisions today
are just as flawed, giving us unparalleled monetary wealth, but causing
deep social harms.
The talk is followed by audience Q&A.
— Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics
— Sofie Hagen
Emma Holten (b. 1991) is the author of the book Deficit: The Hidden Value of Care, which is translated into 12 languages.
She sat on the European Institute of Gender Equality Experts Forum as an expert in feminist economics and is on Human Rights Watch’s advisory committee on Women’s Rights. In 2023 she was appointed as advisor to the government’s investigation of power in Denmark. She holds an MA in Modern Culture from The University of Copenhagen, with exchanges at Barnard and Uppsala Universities. She lives in Copenhagen.
Photo by Claudia Vega
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
General Admission: $15.00
Members: $10.00
For centuries this has been written off as “women's work”: essential, invisible, and unpaid. Danish writer and feminist economist Emma Holten exposes a fundamental flaw in our value and economic systems, designed centuries ago to overlook care work.
Holten’s international bestseller Deficit: The Hidden Value of Care
reveals how the economic models that drive political decisions today
are just as flawed, giving us unparalleled monetary wealth, but causing
deep social harms.
The talk is followed by audience Q&A.
— Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics
— Sofie Hagen
Emma Holten (b. 1991) is the author of the book Deficit: The Hidden Value of Care, which is translated into 12 languages.
She sat on the European Institute of Gender Equality Experts Forum as an expert in feminist economics and is on Human Rights Watch’s advisory committee on Women’s Rights. In 2023 she was appointed as advisor to the government’s investigation of power in Denmark. She holds an MA in Modern Culture from The University of Copenhagen, with exchanges at Barnard and Uppsala Universities. She lives in Copenhagen.
Photo by Claudia Vega
