Conferences Proceedings :: Institute for Women's Policy Research

IWPR's Seventh International Conference,
Women Working to Make a Difference
June 22-24, 2003
Capital Hilton, Washington, DC
Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program of The George Washington University, and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

We are pleased to present the proceedings from our 7th International Women's Policy Research Conference. The 2003 Conference brought together policymakers, advocates, researchers, and practitioners from the academic, labor, corporate, government, non-profit and media worlds to discuss new research findings, current trends, and policy strategies relating to women's lives in the United States and throughout the world. Over 650 people attended the event. More than 60 sessions and over 200 presenters addressed a range of issues related to women's economic, political, health, and social status.

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Plenary Remarks

Amy Bhatt, Institute for Women's Policy Research
Remarks, "Women's Leadership Makes a Difference--Enacting Our Visions of Equity”

Linda Chavez-Thompson, AFL-CIO
Remarks, "Making Policy As If Women Mattered"

Meghan Salas, Former Mariam K. Chamberlain Fellow, Institute for Women's Policy Research
"Reflections on IWPR Experience"

Employment, Education, & Economic Change

Elizabeth Estherchild	"Not Elsewhere Classified: The Movement of Women into Managerial Jobs, 1983-2000"
Tamara Ohler and Nancy Folbre	"Income Measurement and Its Implications for Policy Design"

Women's Political & Civic Participation

Sabrina Denney Bull	"Violence Against Women: Media (Mis)Representations of Femicide"
Martha F. Davis	"Child Care as a Human Right: A New Perspective on an Old Debate"
Dana McGrath	"Sexuality Education: U.S. Policy, Polictics, and Practice"
Tanya Melich	"Attacking First-Time Women Candidates: The Same Old Game or a New Tech Phenomenon?"

Poverty & Income Security

Monica Alzate	"The Quality of Life of Single Mothers on Welfare in Georgia and the 1996 Welfare Reform"
Sandra Butler, Luisa Deprez, and Rebecca Smith	"Parents as Scholars: A Model Post-Secondary Education Program for Low-Income Women in the New Welfare Landscape"
GiGi Colson	"Creating Economic Self Sufficiency Through Village Model Micro-Lending, U.S. and India"
Melissa Cox	"Welfare Dependence and Dynamics in Britain"
Christina Smith Fitz-Patrick, Catherine Hill, and Leslie Muller	"Improving the Economic Security of Elderly Women Through a Reformed Minimum Benefit"
Vicky Lovell and Gi-Taik Oh	"Unemployment and Women's Economic Well-Being"

Family, Work, & Demographic Change

Donna Baines	"Seven Kinds of Work - Only One Paid: Race Gendered and Reconstructured Care Work in the Social Services Sector"
Barbara Bergmann	"Designing Policies for Helping Single Mothers"
Jonathan Fisher and Angela Lyons	"The Ability of Women to Repay Debt After Divorce"
Laura Foster	"Social Security and African American Families: Unmasking Race and Gender Discrimination"
Nonie Harris	"Different Policies, Different Lives: The Impact of Subsidized Child Care Policies on American and Australian Women"
Julie Press and Lynda Laughlin	"Child Care Subsidies and Mothers' Work Outcome"

Health, Safety, & Well Being

Melissa Ditmore	"Hysterical Policy: Morality in New Laws Addressing Trafficking and Sex Work"
Simel Esim	"Making the Law Work: Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence and Child Custody in the Massachusetts Family Courts"
Kyle Ann Kenney	"Access to Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment for Low-Income Uninsured Women: The Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act (BCCPTA) of 2002"

Poster Presentation

Padmaja Reddi Allipuram	"Women in Agriculture: A Sociological Study in Southern India"
Julie Press and Janice Johnson	"Welfare Status and Barriers To Work"