“Tracking Inequality: Current Administrative Policy Changes and Women’s Work”

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After registering at the above link, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link to join Tue., June 23 noon to 1:30 PM (ET).

Connie Cordovilla, Vice President, CWI will introduce and moderate this program. The Trump administration has done much and proposed more to keep women at home or in unpaid care work especially to produce children. For example, she will discuss education policies which limit graduate student loans for many women dominated professions.

Speakers include Ariane Hegewisch, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Ariane will provide data on women’s recent labor market experiences, including gender & racial wage gaps, labor force participation and employment, and changes in occupations. She will discuss how women’s paid work is being  impacted by federal policy changes made by the Trump administration such as cuts in the federal workforce, attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the dismantling of federal oversight and enforcement of labor standards and point to some state-level initiatives that are supporting women’s (and men’s) access to good jobs.  Lastly, she will address threats to the data infrastructure that allows us to track inequality and discrimination.

The second speaker is Katie O’Connor, Director of Federal Abortion Policy at the National Women’s Law Center with previous democracy experience at Demand Justice, the American Constitution Society, the Advancement Project and the ACLU. Katie will examine health policies developing in the pronatalism movement which will impede women from working to their best abilities or not at all.

The last speaker is Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation and Publisher of
Ms. Magazine. She will speak about the strides women have made and how they must not back down! In addition to implementing the ERA she will suggest what we should do to continue progress toward equality for women in the paid workforce and how we can elect candidates who will help!

Time permitting, these presentations will be followed by Q&A.