Intercontinental Hotel, Sutter Room
888 Howard Street, San Francisco
Followed by Boalt Hall’s Celebration of Women Leaders
(6:00 to 8:30 p.m.)
In the fall of 2009, First Lady of California Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress released The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything, in partnership with the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security at UC Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley CHEFS). The report centered around the fact that for the first time in American history, women are half of all U.S. workers and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families.
A team of Boalt alums, faculty and staff played a major role in producing this report, including Ann O’Leary, Karen Skelton, Maria Echaveste, and Mary Ann Mason, who will highlight the report’s major findings and then discuss policy and societal impacts. Together the panel will explore questions including: What implications does the shift have for our major societal institutions, from government and businesses to our faith communities? What policies are needed to accommodate this major social change? How have immigrant women been affected? How has the role of men changed?
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything is available at
http://www.awomansnation.com/
Panelists:
Ann O’Leary
Executive Director, Berkeley CHEFS, co-editor of The Shriver Report, and co-author of “Family Friendly for All Families” in The Shriver Report
Karen Skelton
Founder, California Office of the Dewey Square Group, Executive Producer of The Shriver Report
Maria Echaveste
Senior Distinguished Fellow, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, and author of “Invisible Yet Essential: Immigrant Women in America” in The Shriver Report
Mary Ann Mason
Professor of the Graduate School, faculty co-director of Berkeley CHEFS, and author of “Better Educating Our New Breadwinners” in The Shriver Report
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