Women in the Labor Force
Heidi Hartmann
Thursday, 22 Mar 2007 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Heidi Hartmann is the President of the Institute for Women's Policy Research and a research professor at George Washington University. In 1994 she received a MacArthur Fellowship for her work in the field of women and economics. She is vice-chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations and coeditor of the Journal of Women, Politics and Policy. Hartmann is coauthor of Still A Man's Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap; Unnecessary Losses: Costs to Americans of the Lack of Family and Medical Leave; Equal Pay for Working Families; and Survival at the Bottom: The Income Packages of Low-Income Families with Children. Women's History Month Keynote Speaker.Cosponsored By:
- YWCA
- Dept of Economics
- George Gund Fund
- Women's Center
- Women's Studies Program
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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