Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 23, 2007|Volume 35, Number 22

Women's Faculty Forum hosts events exploring issues faced by working women, female scientists and more

The Yale Women Faculty Forum (WFF) will present a panel and conference this spring as part of its "Working Lives/Lives That Work" series, exploring how women and men in different segments of the workforce around the world respond to competing demands.

The panel, titled "Research on Working Women from Japan and the United States," will take place noon-2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4, in Rm. 122 of the Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.

The participants will use political science and sociological research from the two nations to discuss the ways in which labor markets, household obligations, education and child care structure work options for women and men in different economies.

Frances Rosenbluth, the Damon Wells Professor of International Politics at Yale, will moderate the panel. The participants will be Dhooleka Raj, associate research scientist in Yale's South Asian Studies Program and a lecturer in anthropology; Glenda Roberts, a visiting fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Yale and a professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Department of International Relations, at Waseda University in Tokyo; and Karen Hansen, professor of sociology and women's and gender studies at Brandeis University.

The WFF will also join with the national American Constitution Society and the Yale Law School's chapter of the American Constitution Society to host a conference exploring the meanings, confluence and implications of the terms "progressive," "family," and "values" for working women and men.

The Progressive Family Values Conference will take place 10 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, in the Yale Law School.

According to the organizers, "Articulating an understanding of the impact of this language, the common values it implies, and policies which signify progressive family values has proven difficult, frustrating, and ineffective on a national level. This conference is an effort to better address these issues ..."

Featured speakers will include Rosa DeLauro, nine-term congresswoman for Connecticut's Third District, whose work focuses on issues of economic insecurity, child care, educational quality and access, and health care; Ariela Dubler, vice-dean and professor of law at Columbia University; Mark Greenberg, director of social policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy and executive director of the Task Force on Poverty at the Center for American Progress; Jacob Hacker, professor of political science and resident fellow of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Karen Kornbluh, policy director for Senator Barack Obama; George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley and senior fellow at The Rockridge Institute; Robert Lerman, senior fellow in labor and social policy at the Urban Institute and professor of economics at American University; Nina Pillard, professor of law at Georgetown University; Judy Scott, general counsel to the Service Employees International Union and a partner at James & Hoffman; Neera Tanden, senior vice president for academic affairs at the Center for American Progress and policy director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

For further information about these events, or to RSVP, visit the website at www.yale.edu/wff/programs/seminar.html, call the WFF office at (203) 432-8847 or send e-mail to wff@yale.edu.

Other WFF events

In addition to the "Working Lives/Lives That Work" series, the WFF will host the following this spring:

"Intuition, Science and Decision Making: Lessons from the Field About Women in Natural Resources," Tuesday, March 27, 4:30 p.m., 380 Edwards St. Toddi Steelman, assistant professor at North Carolina State University's Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, will discuss her research. Steelman studies public and community involvement in environmental and natural resource management, focusing on the substantive areas of watersheds, land preservation, forest management and climate change. This event is co-sponsored by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the WFF.

"Women and Men in the Academy: Beyond Bias and Barriers," Thursday, April 12, noon-2 p.m., Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. This session will reprise the issues from the WFF "Beyond Bias and Barriers" panel about the National Academy of Science report on women in science held in December; it will also connect to what other universities are doing to turn things around. The featured speaker will be Alice Agogino, the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California-Berkeley.

"Future Formations: Gender as an Analytic/Women's Studies as a Location in the Academy," on Wednesday, May 2, time and place to be announced. The speaker will be Juliet Mitchell, professor of psychoanalysis and gender studies on the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, and fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge, England. Mitchell will consider the history and current structure of women's studies as a discipline, issues of gender mainstreaming and institutional forms of knowledge production.

For further information, visit the WFF website at www.yale.edu/wff.

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