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Recent Events
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Making WIA Work for Women:
Reforming the Workforce Investment Act to Help Women Gain Quality Jobs and Narrow the Wage Gap
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
As Congress is preparing to discuss the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), this Congressional Briefing heard from four speakers about the need to address the gender wage gap among people who received WIA services; the need to provide good career counseling and supports, particularly for non-traditional jobs, to help women reach 'self-sufficiency' wages; proposals for an enhanced role of peer counselors or union learning representatives to give career advise to incumbent workers; and proposals for performance and accountability measures under WIA to focus attention on non-traditional occupations.
To view a summary of the briefing and to access background documents, click here.
To view the Machinist News Network's video report of the event, click here.
SPEAKERS
Ariane Hegewisch, Study Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research
The Workforce Investment Act, the Wage Gap and Gender Segregation in Training
Susan Rees, Policy Director of National Policy and Programs,
Wider Opportunities for Women
Tailoring WIA Services for Women's Self-Sufficiency
Marie-Louise Caravatti, Associate Director for Research
American Federation of Teachers
Career Advice that Counts: Workplace Learning Representatives as a Route for Career Counseling and Advocacy for Professional Development for Paraprofessionals in Education
Mimi Lufkin, CEO, National Alliance for Partnership in Equity
Recruiting and Retaining Women in Non-Traditional Training and Education:
Using Perkins Act Performance Measures for the Workforce Investment Act
MODERATOR
Carolyn Williams, Director, Human Services Department
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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Dialogue on Diversity
In Partnership with the American Islamic Congress
and Sponsoring Organizations:
Women's Research and Education Institute, the Institute for Women's Policy Research,
the National Council of Women's Organizations, the National Education Association,
the National Women's Political Caucus, the U.S. Census Bureau, the American Federation of Teachers
In Celebration of National Women's History Month, Presents:
The Resilient Society: Human Capital Resurgent
The 2010 Public Policy Forum, March 12, 2010
The George Washington University Marvin Center, Grand Ballroom
800 21st Street, NW
Agenda
1:30 p.m. Greeting and Overview
U.S. Representative Eleanor Homes Norton (DC) [invited]
Women's History Month - The Condition of Women: Cultural and Economic Aspects
Ma. Cristina Caballero, Dialogue on Diversity
Zainab al-Suwaij, American Islamic Congress
Esther Aguilera, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute [invited]
2:15 p.m. Key Speakers
The Special Tasks of Women in Education and the Quest for Peace
Harriet Fulbright, The J. William and Harriet Fulbright Center
Roles of Women: Prospects for Order in an Age of Economic Disarray
Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D., Institute for Women's Policy Research
2:55 p.m. The Sources of Human Capital - Treasure in Small Packages
Early Childhood Education
Giselle Lundy-Ponce, American Federation of Teachers
Latest Developments on the Education Front
Juan Sepulveda, White House Education Initiative [Invited]
City Schools - Their Capacity for Achievement
Rita Jaramillo, National Education Association
Census 2010 - The Count of Immigrant Communities
Irma F. Harahush, U.S. Census Bureau
4:00 p.m. Tough Times: The Political and Economic Power of Women
Margot Dorfman, U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce
Sara Manzano-Diaz, Women's Bureau, Department of Labor [invited]
Clarie Giesern, National Women's Political Caucus
Susan Scanlan, Women's Research and Education Institute
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Reception
Please RSVP at www.dialogueondiversity.org
or by e-mail to us at dialog.div@prodigy.net
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Economic Security for Women
Wealth Building for Women of Color as a Strategy for Long-Term Economic Recovery
March 8, 2010 | 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Capitol Hill Visitor Center, Room 214 | Washington, DC
About
This International Women's Day, please join us for a policy discussion on race, gender, immigration and economic security.
Schedule
10:00 a.m. Panel: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Wealth: Why Disparities Matter
Moderator: Heidi Hartmann, President, Institute for Women's Policy Research
Keynote: Julianne Malveaux, President, Bennett College for Women
Panelists: Sherry Salway Black, Director of the Tribal Partnership Initiative, National Congress of American Indians
Janis Bowdler, Deputy Director, Wealth Building Policy Project, National Council of La Raza
Shyama Venkateswar, Director of Research and Programs, National Council for Research on Women
Noon: Luncheon
Speakers: U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke (NY 11th District)
Invited: U.S. Representative Steny Hoyer (MD 5th District), event sponsor
Invited: Alexis Herman, former Secretary of Labor and Chief Executive Officer, New Ventures LLC
1:15 p.m. Panel: Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Economic Security and America's Future
Moderator: Avis Jones-DeWeever, Director, Research, Public Policy and Information Center, National Council of Negro Women
Guest Speaker: U.S. Representative Gwen Moore (WI 4th District)
Presenter: Mariko Chang
Panelists: Sarah Echohawk Vermillion, Vice President, First Nations Development Institute Melany Dela Cruz, Associate Director, Asian Pacific American Community Development Data Center, UCLA
3 p.m. Panel: First Generation Women Immigrants: Generating New Wealth, Generating a Global Economy
Moderator: Nicole Mason, Director, Women of Color Policy Network
Invited: U.S. Representative Nydia Velasquez (NY 12th District)
Panelists: Barbara Robles, Senior Community Affairs Research Liaison, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Beatriz Olvera Stotzer, CEO, New Economics for Women
Doua Thor, Executive Director, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
Hosted by
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development, the Institute for Women's Policy Research, the National Council for Negro Women, the Women of Color Policy Network at NYU, and the National Council for Research on Women .
RSVP
Victor Corral | vcorral@insightcced.org
More Information
racialwealthgap.org | expertsofcolor.org
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Ending Poverty, Not Welfare: A Grassroots
Congressional Briefing on TANF Reauthorization
Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010
Washington, D.C.
10am-11:30a.m. House Rayburn Gold Room, 2nd floor
and
2-3:30p.m. Senate Dirksen G11
In the coming year, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the legislation that created welfare reform, will be reauthorized. Hear from the most important stakeholders in this process – low-income mothers and their children - about how we can strengthen our nation’s safety net, while creating pathways out of poverty for low-income women and their families.
Also hear from speakers with the Center for Law and Social Policy, the Applied Research Center, Legal Momentum and the National Council for Negro Women, who will share the latest research on how low-income mothers and their families have fared under welfare reform.
Hosted by Women for Economic Justice (WEJ)
A national network of grassroots, low-income women-led organizations
working to end poverty under TANF reauthorization and to achieve
economic justice for low-income women, their families, and communities.
Community Voices Heard (NY)
Georgia Citizens’ Coalition on Hunger
LIFETIME: Low-Income Families’ Empowerment through Education (CA)
9to5 National Association for Working Women (WI/CA/CO)
Ohio Empowerment Coalition / Contact Center
POWER: Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights (WA)
WEEL: Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (MT)
Sponsors
The Honorable Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
The Honorable Jim McDermott (D-WA)
The Honorable Barbara Lee (D-CA)
The Honorable Pete Stark (D-CA)
The Honorable Judy Chu (D-CA)
The Honorable Gwen Moore (D-WI)
The Honorable Edolphus Town (D-NY)
American Association of University Women
Applied Research Center
Center for Community Change
Center for Law and Social Policy
Coalition on Human Needs
Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Legal Momentum
National Council for Negro Women
Listen to the audio recording here
Women's Leadership: Achieving Critical Mass to Gain Benefits for All
Hosted by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, Demos, the National Council of Women's Organizations, and the Women's Research and Education Institute
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Location: Capitol Visitor Center, Room SVC 208/209
click here for directions
Distinguished Senior Fellow Linda Tarr-Whelan will discuss her groundbreaking new book, Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping up to Leadership and Changing the World, followed by remarks from two leading members of Congress: Senator Mary Landrieu (Louisiana) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut, 3rd District). Join us for what promises to be an exciting conversation about bringing a critical mass of women to the tables of power and the crucial role of women's leadership in achieving positive change for all.
This briefing is part of the Women's Leadership Initiative at Demos.
Speaker:
Linda Tarr-Whelan
Demos Distinguished Senior Fellow and Author of "Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World"
Moderator:
Heather McGhee
Director of Demos' Washington, DC Office
Comments:
Senator Mary Landrieu (confirmed)
Representative Rosa Delauro (confirmed)
Victoria Budson
ED, Women & Public Policy, Harvard (invited)
Melanne Verveer
Ambassador for Global Women's Issues (invited)
Laura Liswood
Secretary-General, Council of Women World Leaders (invited)
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Past Conferences
Achieving Equity for Women
April 2, 2009
Achieving Equity for Women: Policy Alternatives for the New Administration
IWPR and Wellesley Centers for Women Symposium
Barbara Jordan Conference Center
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Washington, D.C.
The symposium brought together top researchers and policy makers to focus on key policy issues for women, including: healthcare, early child care and education, retirement and social security, women's leadership and employment equity.
Together, WCW and IWPR bring more than 50 years of combined experience to the study of issues of importance to women and families.
View Symposium Agenda
View List of Speakers
View Panel and Keynote Videos
View Speaker Power Point Presentations
Support the Symposium
For questions about the Symposium, contact Jennifer Clark at 202.785.5100 or clark@iwpr.org
This program was made possible with support from: the Annie E. Casey Foundation; the Cowles/Sulzberger Fund at Wellesley Centers for Women; the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; the Ford Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. The Institute for Women's Policy Research works in affiliation with the graduate programs in public policy and women's studies at The George Washington University.
IWPR's Ninth International Women's Policy Research Conference in conjunction with the
2008 Economic Justice Summit
"Bringing Together Research and Advocacy From Local to Global to Advance Economic Justice and Empowerment for Women"
April 11-12, 2008
Atlanta, Georgia
Sheraton Atlanta Hotel
Convenors: NOW Foundation, Institute for Women's Policy Research, National Council of Negro Women
View Summit Workshops
Scheduled Speakers include:
Dr. Martha Burk, Author, Your Money and Your Life
Katharine Cheairs, SistahGirl: Black Women & HIV/AIDS Documentary Project
Kim Gandy, President, National Organization for Women (NOW) Foundation
Dr. Heidi Hartmann, President, Institute for Women's Policy Research
DiShonda Hughes and Edna Rodriguez, Atlanta Women's Foundation
Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Director of Resarch, Public Policy and Information Center, National Council of Negro Women
Joan Kuriansky, Executive Director, Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW)
Lilly Ledbetter, Plaintiff in landmark U.S. Supreme Court pay discrimination case
Janice Mathis, Esq., Vice President, Citizenship Education Fund
Hon. Carol Mosley Braun, President/CEO, Ambassador Organics
Gail Perry-Mason, Author, Girl, Make Your Money Grow!
Loretta Ross, National COordinator, SisterSong: Women of COlor Reproductive Health Care Collective
Eleanor Smeal, President, Feminist Majority Foundation
Jane Smith, Ed.D., Executive Director, Spelman College Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement
Dr. E. Faye Williams, National Chair, National Congress of Black Women
The Summit is a conference that will bring together feminist grassroots activists, academics and educators, women's policy researchers, NGO's, non-profits, social justice organizations, and labor, business, and government leaders committed to strengthening the economic and political power of women - as workers, business owners, caregivers, family providers, voters, and leaders. The summit will provide diverse perspectives combining academic findings on the economic status of women with action strategies for promoting equality. Participants will identify trends, challenges, and solutions from the local to the global arena, considering class, race, cultural, religious and gender realities.
Goals of the Summit include expanding the body of knowledge on critical economic issues; increasing our global understanding of the economic challenges women face; building and strengthening alliances in the economic justice movement; developing recommendations and strategies for enhancing women's economic empowerment; and informing the policy globally and locally, including the 2008 U.S. Presidential election debate
The summit will include a special day-long series of workshops facilitated by IWPR on women’s political activism and the values that drive it on Friday, April 11.
Network Building Across Movements
The workshop series is designed to bring together women activists from across different movements for change: religious and secular, feminist and social justice. Workshops will explore the basic values that inspire and shape our work, examine how those ideas shape our goals and strategies, and assess how our similarities and differences shape potential collaborations.
Encouraging the Development of Local Collaborations
A central goal will be to build new alliances among women who are active in all kinds of social justice movements: feminist organizing, religious social justice organizing, secular social justice organizing, community organizing, civil rights, and others. The workshop series will encourage women to develop their own collaborations across movements for change among women in their local communities and constituencies.
Women’s Action Agenda
The workshop series will encourage the development of a women’s action agenda based on women’s values. IWPR will present a draft national agenda, analysis of issues in the agenda, and exploration of language for women’s organizing that moves beyond traditionally “secular” and “religious” approaches. The document will serve as a “white paper” to spark conversation. Participants will be asked to engage and react to it, and will help mold the final version.
The cost of registration for the Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges workshop series is $90. Participants must pre-register for the series and will be sent background materials ahead of time.
The cost of attending the full two days of the Economic Justice Summit, including the workshop series, is $149 before March 1st or $199 thereafter. Students are eligible for a scholarship rate of $49 for the full Summit.
For more information on the Workshop Series,
please contact Erica Williams at williams@iwpr.org or 202-785-5100.
IWPR's Eighth International Women’s Policy Research Conference, When Women Gain, So Does the World
June 19-21, 2005
Thank You for Attending! View proceedings online in PDF format by clicking here.
A big thanks to all who participated.
View proceedings online in PDF format by clicking here.
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