Achieving Equity For Women:
Policy Alternatives for
the New Administration

April 2, 2009

Sponsored by the Institute for Women's Policy Research and the Wellesley Centers for Women

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Panel Videos and
Secretary Solis Keynote Address
(Videos below are in Windows Media Files)

Opening Remarks and Women in the Economic Recovery panel featuring Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Jared Bernstein, Ph.D., Chief Economist, Office of the Vice President of the United States- watch

Retirement, Social Security, and Aging panel - watch

Keynote Address: Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor - watch

Expanding Quality Early Care and Education panel - watch

Women and Health Care Reform: Quality, Affordability, and Access panel, Closing Remarks by Tina Tchen, Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States and Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls - watch
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Speaker Power Point Presentations

Women and Economic Recovery, Rebecca M. Blank, Ph.D.

A New Deal for Pensions: Beyond the 401(K) and the 3-legged Stool, Teresa Ghilarducci, Ph.D.

Social Security and the Changing Economic Role of Women, Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D.

The Importance of Quality Early Care and Education to Children and Families, Nancy L. Marshall, Ed.D.

Employment Based Strategies for Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: The Role of Social Security, Maya Rockeymoore Ph.D.

Health Reform and Women: Shaping a Women’s Agenda, Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D.

Path to a High Performance Health System: A 2020 Vision and Policies to Pave the Way, Cathy Schoen, Ph.D.

The Economic Importance of Early Care and Education, Mildred E. Warner, Ph.D.
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Symposium Speakers

Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D., Executive Director, Wellesley Centers for Women
Jared Bernstein, Ph.D., Chief Economist, Office of the Vice President of the United States
Rebecca Blank, Ph.D., Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Martha Darling, Board Chair, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Representative, Connecticut 3rd District
Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, National Women's Law Center
Danielle Ewen, Director, Child Care and Early Education Policy, Center for Law and Social Policy
Kim Gandy, President, National Organization for Women
Teresa Ghilarducci, Ph.D., Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Economic Policy Analysis, New School University
Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D., President, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Dora L. Hughes, MD, MPH, FAACP, Counselor for Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, DHHS
Barbara Kennelly, President & CEO, National Committee to Preserve Medicare and Social Security and former U.S. Representative, Connecticut, 3rd District
Charles Kolb, President, Committee for Economic Development
Carolyn Maloney, U.S. Representative, New York 14th District
Nancy Marshall, Ed.D., Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director, Wellesley Centers for Women
Gwen Moore, U.S. Representative, Wisconsin, 4th District
Kathryn Olson, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Social Security, House Ways and Means Committee
Vivian Pinn, M.D., Director, Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health
Maya Rockeymoore, Ph.D., President and CEO, Global Policy Solutions
Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D., Vice President and Director of Women’s Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
Susan Scanlan, Chair, National Council of Women's Organizations
Cathy Schoen, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Commonwealth Fund
Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor
Tina Tchen, Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States, Executive Director, White House Council on Women and Girls
Mildred Warner, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
Linda Wertheimer, Senior National Correspondent, National Public Radio
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