Heather Boushey - Heather Boushey is a senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Her work focuses on the U.S. labor market, social policy, and work and family issues. Dr. Boushey's work ranges from examinations of current trends in the U.S. labor market and how families balance work and child care needs to how young people have fared in today's economy and health insurance coverage. She has testified before the U.S. Congress and authored numerous reports and commentaries on issues affecting working families, including the implications of the 1996 welfare reform.
Ellen Bravo - Ellen Bravo is a long-time activist for working women. She began working for 9to5, National Association of Working Women in 1982, when she helped found the Milwaukee chapter, and served until 2004 as its national director. Now Ellen teaches Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, including masters level classes on Family-Friendly Workplaces and on Sexual Harassment, and serves as a consultant to 9to5. She coordinates the Multi-State Working Families Consortium, a network of state coalitions working for family-flexible policies. In addition to Taking on the Big Boys, Ellen co-authored (with Ellen Cassedy) The 9to5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and wrote The Job/Family Challenge: A 9to5 Guide (Not for Women Only. She's also written numerous articles and reports, including Quality Part-Time Options in Wisconsin, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and an article in the March 2007 special issue of the American Prospect.
E.J. Graff - Since 2001, E.J. Graff has been a Resident Scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. As an author and journalist, she has written widely about issues of marriage and family, women's lives, and the lives of lesbians, gay men, bisexual, and transgendered people. Her widely praised work is often cited in legal journals, reprinted for use in academic courses and textbooks, entered as courtroom exhibits, and quoted by government policymaking bodies.
Linda Hirshman - Linda Redlick Hirshman is a lawyer, feminist, and the author of The Woman's Guide to Law School and Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex. She is a retired Distinguished professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Brandeis University.
Joan Williams - Distinguished Professor Joan C. Williams, 1066 Foundation Chair at UC Hastings College of the Law and prize-winning author, is the director of WorkLife Law and co-director of the Project for Attorney Retention (PAR). The author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It, she was awarded the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. She has been widely quoted in the press, in publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Parenting Magazine, Working Mother and O.
Working Moms: A panel discussion with Joan Williams, Linda Hirshman, Heather Boushey, Ellen Bravo and moderated by E.J. Graff.
The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents a panel discussion exploring the current trend of news stories depicting working mothers as either leaving the career track or dreaming of doing so - a media trend that is framing the national discourse on motherhood and work in United States. Do these stories rely too heavily on anecdotal evidence while ignoring statistics and demographics?- The New School