8:00-9:20 a.m., Saturday: Continental Breakfast and Mini-Plenaries
Affordable, High Quality Child Care: The Missing Link
Moderator:
Mark Greenberg
Senior Staff Attorney
Center for Law and Social Policy
Discussant:
Marlene Ruprecht
Member, German Bundestag
"'A Revolution But Half Accomplished': The Twentieth Century's
Engagement with Child-Raising, Women's Work, and Feminism
Cynthia Harrison
Associate Professor, History and Women's Studies
George Washington University
"The Future of Child Care: Improving Quality and Affordability"
Suzanne Helburn and Barbara Bergmann
Perspectives from the States: Economic and Political Gender Gaps
Moderator, William Beach
Director, Center for Data Analysis
Heritage Foundation
Amy Caiazza
Editor, The Status of Women in the States Institute for Women's Policy Research
Heidi Hartmann
President and CEO
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Prof. Linda Williams
Government Department
University of Maryland
Reducing Work-Family Conflicts: Public Policy, Dual Earner Families, and the Shorter Work Day
Moderator:
Eric Brown
Director of Communications
Center for a New American Dream
"Building the Dual Earner/ Dual Career Society: Policy Lessons from Europe"
Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers
Baruch College, CUNY
Columbia University
"Bifurcation of Working Hours: Incentive-Based Policy Prescriptions to Reduce Work-Family Conflict"
Jerry A. Jacobs
University of Pennsylvania
"Work Time and Gender Equity: Lessons from Europe"
Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari
Richard Stockton College
"The Movement Toward a 24-Hour Economy: A Work and Family Policy Issue?"
Harriet Presser
University of Maryland
9:30-10:50 a.m., Saturday: Panel Sessions
Measuring Women as if Women Mattered: Social Indicators of Women's Status
Moderator:
Heidi Hartmann
President and CEO
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Discussants:
Ann Crittenden
Journalist, author of The Price of Motherhood
Alia Gana
Research Associate, CREDIF
University of Tunis
"Recommendations from IWPR's Working Group on Social Indicators of Women's Status"
Amy Caiazza
Institute for Women's Policy Research
"Incorporating Disparities Among Women into the
Measurement of Women's Economic Status"
Leslie McCall
Department of Sociology and Women's Studies Program, Rutgers University
"Gender-Based Policy Analysis and National Statistical Programs on Gender: A Comparative Analysis"
Ellen Mutari
Richard Stockton College
Gender and Aging Bias in the Health Care System
Moderator:
Clara Schiffer
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(retired)
Discussants:
Joan O'Sullivan
University of Maryland Law School
Maryland Delegate TBA
"Gender Differences in Health Care Utilization and Cost of Care in the Last Year of Life"
Chloe Bird, Lisa Shugarman, and Joanne Lynn
RAND Corporation
"Gendered Practices of Health Care Systems Can be Detrimental to Women's
Well-Being: A Feminist Perspective"
Laura Dreuth
School of Social Work, Southern Illinois
"Is There a Gender Bias in the Treatment of Elderly Surgical ICU Patients?"
Lynn Hydo and Philip Barie
New York Presbyterian Hospital- Weill Medical College of Cornell
Overlooked Necessities: Family Leave and Medical Leave in the 21st Century
Moderator:
Carla Katz
President, CWA Local 1034
Discussant:
Donna Lenhoff
National Partnership for Women and Families
"Pregnant Workers and the Road Not Taken: Paid Leave and the Social Democratic Alternative in 1940s America"
Eileen Boris
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Ensuring the Link Between Family Leave and
Economic Security in the United States: Is it all Talk?"
Ute Klammer
Institute for Social and Economic Research
"Ensuring the Link Between Family Leave and Economic Security in the United States: Is it
All Talk?"
Tiffany Manuel
Radcliffe Public Policy Center, Harvard University
"Compensating American Families for Births and Adoptions"
Wayne Vroman
Urban Institute
Technology and Privatization: Women and The New Economy
Moderator:
Mitsuko Horiuchi
Special Regional Advisor
Director, Tokyo Branch
International Labor Organization
Discussant:
Max Sawicky
Economics
Economic Policy Institute
"Why Privatizing Government Services Would Hurt Women Workers"
Annette Bernhardt, Laura Dresser, and Catherine Hill
Center on Wisconsin Strategy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute for Women's Policy Research
"Women and Broadcast Media Employment: Is the FCC's EEO Policy Working?"
Mari Paredes Casteneda
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Missing in Action: An Analysis of the 1998
Privatization of Bergen Pines Hospital and Its Impact on County Employment
of Women and Minorities"
Carolyn York
AFSCME, Women's Rights Department
Women After Welfare Reform: Surviving or Thriving?
Moderator:
Rich Stolz
Analyst
Center for Community Change
"Long-Term Use of AFDC & Work: Survival Strategies & Comparisons with Shorter-Term Use"
Elizabeth E. Bartle,
Dept. of Sociology, California State University, Northridge
"Facing the Facts of the Well-Being of Rural Low-Income Women in the Context of Welfare Reform"
Bonnie Braun and Maria Vandergriff-Avery
University of Maryland Department of Family Studies
"Food Stamp Receipt: Those Who Left Versus Those Who Stayed in a Time of Welfare Reform"
John J. Hisnanick and Katherine Walker
US Census Bureau
Around the World: An International Look at Women and Girls' Health and Well-Being
Moderator:
Martha Blaxall
Development Alternatives, Inc.
Discussant:
Julia Earnst
International Legislative Council
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
"Expanding Boundaries: Learning From Linked
Adolescent Reproductive Health and Livelihoods Programs"
Simel Esim, Sanyukta Mathur, Guadalupe Duron, Anju Malhorta and Charlotte
Johnson-Welch,
International Center for Research on Women
"A Cross-Cultural Study of Violence Against Women and Girls in Zimbabwe and Illinois"
Saliwe M. Kawewe
School of Social Work, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
"Gender and Adolescence: Aspirations, Sexuality and Economics: A View from the Developing World"
Anju Malhotra and Sanyukta Mathur,
International Center for Research on Women
11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Saturday: Panel Sessions
Women as Voters, Activists, and Leaders: U.S. Women's Political and Civic
Participation
Moderator:
Barbara Palmer
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Southern Methodist University
Discussant: Alma Morales Riojas
President and CEO
MANA: A National Latina Organization
"The Gender Gap and Turnout, 1992-2000"
Denise L. Baer,
George Washington University
"First, but More than First: New York City African American Women's Engagement with the State, 1945-1975"
Julie Gallagher
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Women's Civic Participation"
Heidi Hartmann and Amy Caiazza
Institute for Women's Policy Research
From Mergers to Managed Care: Are
Recent Trends in Health Care Reform Helping or Hurting Women?
Moderator:
Elena Cohen
National Women's Law Center
Discussant:
Lisa Beg
Director of Research Programs, Office of Research on Women
National Institute of Health
"How Woman-Centered Care is Faring Under Managed Care: Perceptions of Nurse-Midwives"
Lois McCloskey and Holly Kennedy
Boston University School of Public Health
"American Hospital Mergers: Implications for Women's Reproductive Health Services"
Marian Lief Palley and Theresa Kohler
University of Delaware
"Medicaid Managed Care and the Health of Children"
Mary E. Young
Southwestern University
New Insights into Paid Work and
Caregiving: Race, Class, Gender and Geography
Moderator:
Dawn Flythe
Maryland Lieutenant Governor's Office
Discussant:
Vicky Lovell
Institute for Women's Policy Research
"Across the Boundaries: Connecting Work, Family, and Community in Low-Income America"
Lisa Dodson and Tiffany A. Manuel
Radcliffe Public Policy Center
"Women as Long-Term Care Providers: Profiles of White, Black, and Hispanic Family Caregivers"
Maryam Navaie-Walise, Timothy Peng, Aubrey Springgs, and Penny Feldman
Center for Home Care Policy and Research
Women's Returns from Higher Education: Are Universities Making the Grade?
Moderator:
Sandra Hanson
Catholic University
Discussant:
Cheryl Lehman
Professor, Department of Accounting, Taxation, and Business Law
Hofstra University
"Keeping Women in Engineering: The Undergraduate Role"
Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman
Rowan University
"On the Adjusted Rate of Return to Women's University Education: A
Preliminary Study of OECD Countries"
Hiroshi Ono
Stockholm School of Economics
"Gender, Sex and Salaries in Academe: Is Productivity Enough?"
Janet Spitz and Alison Konrad
The College of Saint Rose School of Business
Temple University
Welfare Reform, Hardships and Social Isolation
Moderator:
Janice Peterson
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Discussant:
Evonne Tisdale
Assistant Director
Philadelphia Unemployment Project
"When Work Just Isn't Enough: Measuring Hardships Faced by Families after Moving from Welfare to Employment"
Heather Boushey, Chauna Brocht, and Bethany Gundersen
Economic Policy Institute
"Post Welfare Reform: Trends in Demand for Emergency Services"
Donna Haig-Friedman
McCormack Institute, University of Massachusetts, Boston
“Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility: Examining Social Capital
Amongst Low-Income African-American and Latin-American Mothers”
Celeste Watkins and Silvia Dominguez
Harvard University
Historical Perspectives on Women's Status
Moderator:
Margarita Mathiapoulous
British Aerospace Systems
Fredrich Ebert Foundation
Discussant:
Ellen Delaney
Delaney, Siegal, Zorn & Associates, Inc.
"Career or Family? An Examination of Life Trajectories of Radcliffe Graduates,
1900-1930"
Jo Anne Preston
Brandeis University, Department of Sociology
"Federal Policy and the Gender Gap for the 'Baby Boom' Generation"
Hilarie H. Lieb
Northwestern University, Department of Economics
"Global Diffusion of Democracy: Gender Challenges"
Barbara Wejnert
Cornell University
