Speakers

Michàlle Mor Barak, Ph.D

Michàlle Mor Barak, Ph.D., PhD, is a Professor at the University of Southern California with a joint appointment at the School of Social Work and the Marshall School of Business. She holds the Lenore Stein-Wood and William S. Wood Professorship of Social Work and Business in a Global Society and is the Chair of the Social Work in the Workplace concentration.

A Principal Investigator on several large research projects, she has published extensively in the areas of global workforce diversity and inclusion, industrial/occupational social work practice, and stress, social support and work family integration. She has authored three books, Social Networks and Health (Garland, 1991), Social Services in the Workplace (Haworth, 2000) and Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace (Sage, 2005). Her most recent book won the prestigious Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 by the Association of the College and Research Libraries.

Professor Mor Barak has received awards of distinction, including a Fulbright award, the Lady Davis award for international exchange scholars, the University of California Regents Award, the Mellon Foundation’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship, and the Franklin C. Sterlin Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship. She has been invited to give key note addresses and received grants to lead several prestigious conferences around the world, including the Rockefeller Foundation’s grant to lead an international conference on global workforce diversity in Bellagio, Italy, and the Borchard Foundation’s grant to lead a global think tank of scholars on diversity management at the Chateau de la Bretesche, France.

Rosalind Chait Barnett, Ph.D

Rosalind Chait Barnett, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist and the Executive Director of the Community, Families, and Work Program at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. Alone and with others, she has published over 100 articles, 26 chapters, and seven books. Her refereed articles have appeared in such journals as Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Psychology, Journal of Family Issues, Work and Organizations, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. With her co-author, Caryl Rivers, she has recently published, Same Difference: How Gender Myths Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our Children, and Our Jobs, (Basic Books, 2004, paperback, 2005). She and Caryl also write Opeds on such gender-related issues as leadership, management style, math abilities, and modes of communication. Their recent Opeds have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, the Boston Globe, WomensEnews, and the Washington Post. Dr. Barnett is the recipient of several national awards, including the American Personnel and Guidance Association’s Annual Award for Outstanding Research, the Radcliffe College Graduate Society’s Distinguished Achievement Medal and Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government’s 1999 Goldsmith Research Award. Roz is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and corporate functions.

Suzanne M. Bianchi

Suzanne M. Bianchi is currently Professor and incoming Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. She is a former Director of the Maryland Population Research Center, a past President of the Population Association of America, and current editor of the journal, Demography. Prior to joining the Maryland faculty in 1994, she served as Assistant Chief for Social and Demographic Statistics in the Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Dr. Bianchi’s research focuses on family demography, time use and gender equality in the workplace. She is currently engaged in a multi-disciplinary research project funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to design new models for explaining family change and variation. With funding from NSF and from the Working Families Program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, she has also conducted two U.S. time diary data collections. The results of these studies are highlighted in her forthcoming book, co-authored with John Robinson and Melissa Milkie, Changing Rhythms of American Family Life, which will be published in August 2006 by the Russell Sage Foundation as a volume in the ASA Rose Monograph Series. She is also collaborating with Katherine Abraham on analysis and improving data access to the new American Time Use Survey (ATUS).

Juliet Bourke, BA, LLB, LLM (Hons)

Juliet is a partner with Aequus Partners. Using her expertise as an employment lawyer, Juliet works with leading organizations to: develop and implement organizational change strategies to promote equity and diversity; deliver training programs; and conduct workplace investigations and mediations. Juliet is also a part-time chairperson with the Government and Related Employees Appeals Tribunal, in which capacity she conciliates and determines workplace disputes.

Juliet’s current key appointments include: Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Network of Australia (EEONA), President of the NSW EEO Practitioners’ Association (NEEOPA), and Chair of the Taskforce on Care Costs. Juliet was a judge of the 2004 Law Society of NSW EEO Awards and the 2005 NEEOPA People’s Choice Award.

Juliet has lectured in discrimination law at Sydney University (Faculty of Law) and in management at the University of NSW (School of Industrial Relations and Organizational Behaviour), and has published widely on employment related issues. She is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert author and speaker on diversity, flexibility and gender equity.

Juliet is the author of Corporate Women, Children, Careers and Workplace Culture (2000, UNSW) and co-author of Age Discrimination: Mitigating Risk in the Workplace (2005, CCH).

Kathleen E. Christensen

Kathleen E. Christensen founded and directs the Program on The Workplace, Work Force and Working Families at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Under her leadership, the Workplace, Work Force and Working Families program has played a vital role in developing work-family scholarship and in supporting effective workplaces that meet the needs of working parents and older workers. To that end, in 2003, the Foundation launched the National Initiative on Workplace Flexibility, a collaborative effort designed to make workplace flexibility a standard of the American workplace.

Prior to joining the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Dr. Christensen was a Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School and University Center of City University of New York and before that served as a policy analyst at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Christensen has published extensively on the changing nature of work and its relationship to the family. Her books include Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition (Cornell University Press, 1998); Turbulence in the American Workplace (Oxford University Press, 1991); Women and Home-based Work: The Unspoken Contract (Henry Holt, 1988) and The New Era of Home-based Work: Directions and Policies (Westview Press, 1988). Her editorials have appeared on the national Op Ed pages of the Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and Atlanta Constitution.

Dr. Christensen is a member of the Conference Board’s Work-Life Leadership Council and has served on a number of national work-life advisory boards.

She received her doctorate from the Pennsylvania State University, where she was a Danforth Fellow, as well as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. She has also been a Mellon Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow. In 2004, she was awarded the Work-Life Legacy Award by the Families and Work Institute for her role in founding the field of work-life.

Tripti Pande Desai, Ph.D

Dr. Tripti P Desai earned her Ph.D in Psychology after completing her BA (Hons), MA and M.Phil in Psychology. She is a product of Delhi having passed out from Convent of Jesus and Mary (New Delhi) and the University of Delhi, India.

Post her M.Phil in Organizational Psychology, Dr. Desai felt the need to get first hand industry experience to facilitate understanding of Organizational Behaviour. Thus she joined a leading marketing Organization in New-Delhi at their head office and worked in various departments and in various capacities. She resigned after 5 years to go back to academics and joined the research faculty at Indian Institute of Management (IIM-A)-Ahmedabad, a leading business school of Asia.

After gaining rich experience she joined the Institute for Integrated Learning in Management (IILM) New Delhi, in 1997 and has been here ever since. She is currently the head of the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management Area and is a Professor in the OB-HR area.

Dr. Desai has also been a resource person for various organizations spanning the private and public sector, multinationals and has also trained senior government officials of the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service and other allied services of the Government of India.

She has published in various national and international journals and has chaired symposiums and presented in various international and national conferences of repute. She has been associated with various research studies including a Ford Foundation-USA study, where she was the country head and chaired the country workshop ‘Looking Backwards to Move forward-a study of Work-Personal Life Integration’. She is on the Board of Governors of a Manpower Development organization and has been the Director-Placements amongst other administrative functions of the institute. Currently alongwith other research, she is conducting a study on Work-Family conflict, as part of an international research team spanning 9 countries across the world. She is also co-editing a book ‘Emerging Concepts in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management -an Indian Perspective.”

Robert Drago

Robert Drago is Professor of Labor Studies and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and moderates the work/family newsgroup. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has been a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar. Recent research concerns biases against caregiving in the workplace, working time, the value of work-family policies, and includes studies of college and university faculty and of public policies around work and family, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Most recently, in conjunction with Jackie Rogers and Theresa Vescio, he completed research on the relative decline of women as intercollegiate coaches, with funding from the NCAA and NACWAA. He is president elect for 2006 of the College and University Work/Family Association, a co-founder of the Take Care Net, the 2001 recipient of the R.I. Downing Fellowship from the University of Melbourne (Australia), serves on the board of the Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, is a member of the Council on Contemporary Families and the International Association for Feminist Economics, and serves on the advisory board for the Ms. Foundation’s Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work day.

Articles since 1999 in:

Academe, American Behavioral Scientist, Australian Economic Review, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, Encyclopedia of Career Development, Feminist Economics, Handbook of Work and Family, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Sociology, Labor Law Journal, Monthly Labor Review, Perspectives on Work, Work and Family Encyclopedia.

Recently quoted in or interviewed by:

AP, the Australian, C-Span, CBS MarketWatch, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fast Company, HR Magazine, Indianapolis Star, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, National Report on Work & Family, Nature, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Paul Pioneer Press, UPI, Washington Post, Women in Higher Education, Working Mother, Working Woman, Work/Life Today.

Chai R. Feldblum

Chai R. Feldblum is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. Professor Feldblum graduated from Harvard Law School in 1985 and clerked for Judge Frank M. Coffin on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. As a legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union from 1988 to 1991, Feldblum was one of the lead lawyers who crafted and negotiated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. In 1993, Professor Feldblum founded the Federal Legislation Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches students the art of merging law and politics in the development and negotiation of legislation. Professor Feldblum has written and spoken widely on civil rights (including disability rights and gay rights) and on employment law issues. In 2004, Professor Feldblum launched and now co-directs Workplace Flexibility 2010, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded-initiative engaged in legal research, outreach and consensus-building to advance a national policy on workplace flexibility.

Janet C. Gornick

Janet C. Gornick, a Political Economist (Harvard Ph.D. 1994), is on the faculty at the City University of New York (CUNY). She is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Political Science at Baruch College.

She is also Associate Director (and incoming Director) of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), a cross-national research institute and data archive based in Luxembourg.

Most of her research is comparative — across the industrialized countries — and concerns social welfare policies and their impact on family well-being and gender equality. Her core interest is in public programs that affect parents’ capacity to combine employment with caregiving, such as child care, paid family leave, the regulation of working time, and income supports targeted on families with children.

Professor Gornick has published numerous academic articles on the subject of work-family policies. Her book — Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Work and Family — co-authored by Marcia Meyers, was published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2003, and released in paperback in 2005. She has also published her work in popular venues, including The American Prospect, Dissent, and Challenge Magazine.

She is currently serving as Guest Editor for “Work-Family Reconciliation Policies in High-Employment Economies: Policy Designs and their Consequences,” a Special Double Issue of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice.

Her research has been supported by several sponsors, including the Russell Sage Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Governors’ Association, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

She serves on several advisory boards, including the Council on Contemporary Families; A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center; and the Journal of European Social Policy.

Steven Haider

Steven Haider is an Associate Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, whose research focuses on labor supply, poverty, and aging. His work on poverty has examined the effects of the 1996 welfare reforms, the allocation of resources within households, and government assistance programs more generally. His work on the aging has examined food stamp use among the elderly and the decision to work. Haider received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Diane F. Halpern

Diane F. Halpern is Professor and Chair of Psychology and Director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children at Claremont McKenna College. She has won many awards for her teaching and research, including the 2002 Outstanding Professor Award from the Western Psychological Association, the 1999 American Psychological Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Outstanding Alumna Award from the University of Cincinnati. Diane has published over 350 articles and many books including, a special two-volume edited issue of the American Behavioral Scientist entitled Current Issues at the Intersection of Work and Family (edited with Heidi R. Riggio, 2006) and From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction: Changing the Metaphor (edited with Susan Murphy, 2005). Diane was 2004 President of the American Psychological Association. In addition, Diane has served as president of the Western Psychological Association, the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and the Division of General Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Diane has been invited to speak at numerous conferences and venues around the country and internationally. Most recently (2005), Diane participated in the National Academy of Sciences convocation on Women in Academe. Recent work includes studies of the effects of California’s paid leave insurance, how flexible work policies affect stress and health, and a school-to-work project for low-performing high school students. She is also working with Fanny Cheung from Chinese University on a cross-cultural book based on more than 60 interviews with women in powerful leadership positions with substantial family responsibilities.

Mona Harrington

Mona Harrington, who holds degrees in political science and law from Harvard, is Program Director at the MIT Workplace Center where she chairs a project for the formation of a Massachusetts Work-Family Council. She is also a writer who examines connections between American political culture and social policy. Her recent work focuses on the policy implications of the transformed roles of American women. Her latest book, Care and Equality: Inventing a New Family Politics (Routledge, 2000) calls for a national conversation about new ways to connect families, care, women, and work. Her comment on these issues in the last presidential election, “Women, the Values Debate, and a New Liberal Politics,” appeared in Dissent (Winter 2005).

Ariane Hegewisch

Ariane Hegewisch is international scholar at the Program on WorkLife Law American University and University of California Hastings School of Law. She also is a visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management in the UK. She is an economist and specialist in comparative human resource management, with a particular focus on working time, work life balance and labor market flexibility. Prior to coming to the United States, she taught at Cranfield University School of Management in the UK, where she was a founding researcher of the Cranet Survey on International Strategic Human Resource Management, the largest independent employer based survey of HRM policies and practices globally. After growing up in Germany she got a BSc in economics from the London School of Economics in 1981, followed by an M Phil in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex. Before joining Cranfield in 1989 she worked for six years as a policy advisor on gender, employment and industrial policy in local government in London.

She is the editor of Working Time for Working Families: Europe and the United States, Friedrich Ebert Foundation: Washington (2005); Women, Work and Inequality: The Challenge of Equal Pay in a Deregulated Labour Market (with J. Gregory and R. Sales); MacMillan: London (1999), Policy and Practice in European Human Resource Management: The Price Waterhouse Cranfield Survey (with C. Brewster) Routledge, London (1994) and numerous articles and book chapters. Her research and consultancy clients include the ILO, the European Commission, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the European Federation of Public Service Trade Unions. From 1990 to 1997 she served on the executive board of the UK-based Pay Equity Project, a campaign group concerned with comparable worth issues.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Sylvia Ann Hewlett is the founding President of the Center for Work-Life Policy, a non-profit organization which seeks to develop policies that enhance work-life balance. She is also Director of the Gender and Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. The first woman to head up the Economic Policy Council think tank comprised of 125 business and labor leaders. Dr. Hewlett is well known for her expertise on gender and workplace issues. Her books include When the Bough Breaks (winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize), Creating A Life (named by Business Week as one of the top ten books of 2002) and The War Against Parents (co-authored with Cornel West). Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Harvard Business Review. She is the co-author, most recently, of “Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success” (Harvard Business Review, March 2005) and “Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives” (Harvard Business Review, November 2005). She has taught at Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton Universities and held fellowships at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London and the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, Newsnight with Aaron Brown, NBC Nightly News, Oprah, The View, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, and has been lampooned on Saturday Night Live. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, Hewlett earned her Ph.D. degree in economics at London University.

Jody Heymann

Jody Heymann holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy and is founding director of the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy. Dr Heymann is a professor in the Faculties of Medicine and Arts at McGill University, as well as founding director of the Project on Global Working Families and founding chair of the Initiative on Work, Family, and Democracy.

For more than a decade, Dr Heymann has been involved in research on working families and their children in North America and globally. With support from the Sloan Foundation, she is fielding a national survey on work, family, and community. With support from the Ford and Annie Casey Foundations, she is developing case studies on private companies who are economically succeeding while improving the lives of employees, their children and other family members who have lived in poverty. With support from the Ford Foundation, Dr Heymann’s team has developed a global index examining public policies that affect children and families. She has received FIRST and Shannon Awards from the National Institutes of Health to examine the relationships among community services, parents’ work conditions and children’s health. She was principal investigator on "The Behavioral and Cognitive Development of Children Living in Poverty," a research project funded by the William T. Grant Foundation. As a Picker Commonwealth Scholar, Dr Heymann has been the principal investigator on a study which examines the health conditions faced by high need and resource poor families. Dr Heymann served as chair of the Johnson Foundation program, supported by the Packard Foundation, on Work, Family, and Democracy.

She has served in an advisory capacity to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among other organizations. Dr Heymann received her PhD. in Public Policy from Harvard University, where she was selected in a university-wide competition as a merit scholar, and her MD with honors from Harvard Medical School. She trained in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Boston.

Dr. Heymann has more than a hundred publications, including, among others, Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2006), Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action (Oxford University Press, 2006), Unfinished Work: Building Democracy and Equality in an Era of Working Families (New Press, 2005), The Widening Gap: Why America’s Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done about It (Basic Books, 2001), and Equal Partners: A Physician’s Call for a New Spirit of Medicine (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).

Stuart J. Ishimaru, Commissioner

Stuart J. Ishimaru was sworn in on November 17, 2003, as a Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to serve the remainder of a term expiring July 1, 2007. Mr. Ishimaru was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 14 and confirmed by the full U.S. Senate on October 31, 2003.

As a member of the Commission, he participates with the other Commissioners on all matters which come before it — including the development and approval of enforcement policies, authorization of litigation, issuance of Commissioner’s charges of discrimination, and performance of such other functions as may be authorized by law, regulation, or order.

Mr. Ishimaru previously served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice between 1999 and 2001, where he served as a principal advisor to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, advising on management, policy, and political issues involving the Civil Rights Division. He supervised more than 100 attorneys in high-profile litigation, including employment discrimination cases, fair housing and fair lending cases, criminal police misconduct, hate crime and slavery prosecutions, and enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Prior to this, as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division for five years, Mr. Ishimaru provided advice on a broad range of issues, including legislative affairs, politics and strategies. He maintained liaison between the office and Members of Congress, and supervised fair housing and fair lending, equal employment opportunity, education, and Voting Rights Act litigation. He also testified before Congressional Committees on fair housing issues.

In 1993, Mr. Ishimaru was appointed by President Clinton to be the Acting Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and from 1984–1993 served on the professional staffs of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights and two House Armed Services Subcommittees of the U.S. Congress.

Mr. Ishimaru, a native of San Jose, Calif., received his A.B. in Political Science and in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his law degree from the George Washington University. He is married to Agnieszka Fryszman, an attorney, and they have two sons, Matthew and Benjamin.

Sumiko Iwao, Ph.D.

Sumiko Iwao is a social psychologist and a Professor Emeritus of Keio University.
She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from Yale University in psychology. Her academic appointments include visiting professor at Harvard University and visiting fellow at King’s College, Cambridge University.

In addition to her academic activities, Dr. Iwao has held numerous public positions, especially in the area of women and children. She currently chairs the Committee on Basic Issues of Gender Equality in the Cabinet Office and formerly was the chair of the Gender Equality Council in the Prime Minister’s Office. She was the head of the Japanese delegation to Women 2000, the Special Session of the U.N. General Assembly in 2000. She served as a member of the OECD higher experts group on Women and Structural Change. She is a founding member of the International Group for the Study of Women and served as its first chair.

She currently serves on the Cabinet Secretary’s Advisory Council on Assistance to Women in Afghanistan. As a member of the Social Securities Council and the chair of its Task Force on Children in the Ministry of Welfare and Labour, she is currently working towards providing nurturing environments to children and care-givers, and is running a 3-year research project on promoting paternal child-care leave.

Another area of her contribution is to the public safety and policing. She has served for ten years as a member of the National Public Safety Commission overseeing the Police Agency and recently conducted research on prisoners in Japanese prisons.

She has been on the editorial board of Japan Echo, an English magazine since 1984, serving as editor-in-chief since 1997. She has published many books including The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality (New York: Free Press and Cambridge: Harvard University Press).

Donna M. Klein

Donna Klein is the President and Founder of Corporate Voices for Working Families, a 501(c)(3) non-profit coalition of leading corporations committed to building bipartisan public and private-sector support for federal and state public policies that strengthen working families.
Previously, as Vice President of Workplace Effectiveness at Marriott International, Inc., Washington, DC, Donna guided the strategic formation, planning, development, implementation and management of corporate-wide diversity and work-life initiatives for Marriott for 15 years.

Donna is past Chair of The Conference Board’s WorkLife Leadership Council, and a member of the Conference Board’s Diversity Council. She is Advisory Council member of Boston College’s Work and Family Roundtable, an Advisory Board member of The Berger Institute for Work, Family & Children, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, and a member of the Family & Children Committee of the National Academy of Science, Washington, DC. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Boston, MA, the Advisory Council of the Southern Institute on Children and Families, and the After School Alliance.

Donna and Marriott were recognized for her work by being selected to receive the Optimus Award for Corporate Courage, from the Personnel Journal, in l996. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Metropolitan Washington Work Life Coalition in December 1998. In l998 Donna as profiled in the National Association of Female Executives magazine and in 1999 Donna was honored to receive the Pacesetter’s Award from the National Restaurant Association’s Women’s Forum for her work on women’s leadership. In 2004, Donna was awarded the Work-Life Legacy Award from the Family and Work Institute.

Suzan Lewis

Sue Lewis is Professor of Organisational and Work-Life Psychology, currently at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and from June 2006 she will be at Middlesex University Business School, London. Her research and consultancy focuses on work and family issues particularly workplace practice, culture and change and the relationships between national social policy, workplace practices and employee experiences. She has led many national and international research projects on these topics and has recently completed an EU eight country study on work, family and well being in changing European workplaces.

She is founding editor of the international journal Community, Work and Family and a director of the Work-Life Research Centre. Her numerous publications include: The Work Family Challenge: Rethinking Employment (1996); The Flexible and Profitable Workplace. A Guide to Implementing Flexible Working Practices in Professional Services (2004); Work-Life Integration. Case Studies of Organisational Change (2005); The Myth of Work-Life Balance. The Challenge of our Time for Men, Women and Societies (2006).

She has advised governments and worked with employers and policy makers on work-life issues in Britain, the USA and Japan.

Shelley M. MacDermid

Shelley M. MacDermid is a Professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University, where she also directs the Center for Families. From 2000 to 2005 she also co-directed the Military Family Research Institute, also at Purdue. Dr. MacDermid earned an M.B.A. in Management in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies in 1990 from The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on relationships between job conditions and family life, with special interests in organizational size, adult development, and organizational policies, and has been published in scientific journals including the Journal of Marriage and Family and the Academy of Management Journal. Her research has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Henry A. Murray Center, the Department of Defense, and the state of Indiana; and has earned awards from the Groves Conference and Gamma Sigma Delta. Dr. MacDermid has served as chair of the Feminism and Family Studies section and president of the Indiana affiliate of the National Council on Family Relations, which awarded her Fellow status in 2005. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Family Issues, Family Relations, and Journal of Family and Economic Issues; and is a past member of the editorial board of the Journal of Marriage and Family. Dr. MacDermid’s work has been cited in the popular press around the world, including CNN, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, The Financial Times of London and Working Mother magazine. She works extensively with corporations, including directing the Midwestern Work-Family Association, a membership organization for employers interested in family issues and serving as a faculty fellow to the Boston College Work-Family Roundtable.

Jeff Madrick

Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union, and director of policy research at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is the author of several books, including Taking America (Bantam), and The End of Affluence (Random House), both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Taking America was also chosen by Business Week as one of the ten best books of the year. His most recent book is Why Economies Grow (Basic Books). He has written for many other publications, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Institutional Investor, The Nation, American Prospect, The Boston Globe, Newsday, and the business, op-ed, and magazine sections of The New York Times. He has appeared on Charlie Rose, The Lehrer News Hour, Now With Bill Moyers, CNN, CNBC, CBS, and NPR. He was formerly finance editor of Business Week Magazine and an NBC News reporter and commentator. His awards include an Emmy and a Page One Award. He was educated at New York University and Harvard University, and was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard. He is currently at work on a biographical history of the American economy, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, and a brief work on the purposes of government, to be published by Princeton University Press.

Phyllis Moen

Phyllis Moen holds a McKnight Presidential Chair in Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Prior to moving to Minnesota (fall, 2003) Moen spent 25 years at Cornell University, where she founded and directed both the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and the Cornell Work and Family Careers Institute. The Careers Institute, an Alfred P. Sloan Working Families Center, was the first (1996) such center established by the Sloan Foundation.

Dr. Moen’s research focuses on work conditions, employee health, and family well-being, over the life course and in the face of a changing workforce and a global economy. She studies women’s and men’s adaptive strategies when faced with the gap between 1) their family and personal goals and obligations at different ages and life stages, 2) nested layers of outdated policies, practices and cultures perpetuating inflexible clockworks — of workdays, workweeks, work years, and work lives, and 3) an economic climate of uncertainty and risk.

Her two most recent books report findings from the Ecology of Careers Study, a multi-method, multi-level investigation of working families and (gendered} life courses: The Career Mystique: Cracks in the American Dream (2005, with Pat Roehling), calls into question the policies, practices, and myths sanctioning a lock-step adulthood of continuous, full-time (or more), full-year employment, as the path to security, fulfillment and the good life. This book also challenges the “golden years” myth of continuous, full-time leisure in retirement. It’s about Time: Couples and Careers (2003) chronicles the ways dual-earner couples are navigating the multiple strands of their lives.

Earlier books include Women’s Two Roles (1992) and Working Parents (1989), she also co-edited Examining Lives in Context (1995), The State of Americans (1996), A Nation Divided (1999), and Social Integration in the Second Half of Life (2000). Moen’s published articles on gender, aging and the life course; work, retirement, civic engagement, and social policy; and the work-family-health interface.

Moen is currently collaborating with Erin Kelly in a study of flexibility policy change and its well-being implications for workers and their families in a major retail firm, headquartered in the Twin Cities. This study is funded by NICHD, as part of an NIH network initiative on workplace and family health and effectiveness.

Elinor Ochs

Elinor Ochs is UCLA Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Applied Linguistics and is Director of the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives of Families, which documents how working parents and their children sustain everyday family life across a spectrum of activities that reflect and construct valued ways of acting, communicating, thinking, and feeling. Drawing upon fieldwork in the United States, Samoa, Italy and Madagascar, Ochs co-pioneered the field of language socialization, which analyzes how novices are apprenticed through and into socio-culturally organized communicative practices. Ochs also has conducted research on the relation between language practices and psychopathology. Selected honors include: Honorary Doctorate, Linköping University (2000); Mac Arthur Fellow (1998-2003); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998).

Machiko Osawa

Graduate from Seikei University majoring in Japanese Literature. Received M.A. in Economics, Eastern Illinois University (1977), and Ph.D in Economics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1984), Hewlett Fellow at the University of Chicago (1984-86), Senior Researcher, at the Japan Institute of Labor (1987-90), Associate Professor, at Asia University (1990-96) and currently professor of economics at Japan Women’s University. Serves on Advisory Boards of Ministry of Health, Welfare and Labor, Prime Minister’s Office, and Ministry of Economy and Trade and Industry. Author of various books such as Economic Change and Women Workers: Japan U.S. Comparison (1993, Nihon-Keizai Hyoronsha), Economics of New Family (Chuo Koron Shinsya, 1998), Non-Standard Work in Developed Economies (ed. with Susan houseman, Upjohn Institute, 2003), Towards Work-Life Balance Society (Iwanami, 2006).

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D.

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., is Director of the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at BC. She received her B.A. from Tufts University, M.S.P. from Boston College, and Ph.D. from Boston University.

From 1990-1999, Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes conducted research at the Center for Work & Family at Boston College. In 1997, she founded the Sloan Work and Family Research Network. The Network provides resources about working families to business leaders and state legislators as well as to academics around the world. She continues to be the Principal Investigator of the Network and co-editor of the Policy Leadership Series.

Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes is currently the co-principal investigator of the research, the “National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development.” She was recently co-principal investigator of the study, “Understanding the First Job: Nurturing Families,” also funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This study gathered in-depth information about work, family, school, and community experiences from the parents and middle school-age children in 199 families.

She is currently a research fellow of the Work & Family Roundtable, a corporate membership group organized by the Boston College Center for Work & Family. Her articles have been published in a number of scholarly and practitioner journals. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes was a founding co-editor for the international journal, Community, Work and Family, and co-edited a special issue of the ANNALS of Political and Social Sciences: The Evolving World of Work and Family: New Stakeholders, New Voices. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes is the lead co-editor of The Work-Family Handbook: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches to Research, recently published by Erlbaum Publishers (2006).

Dr. Graeme Russell

Dr. Graeme Russell is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University in Australia and a Partner at Aequus Partners. He is an internationally recognised researcher, writer and consultant on workplace flexibility, diversity, work and life strategies, well-being, equal employment opportunities, organisational change and fatherhood. He has worked with many leading Australian and International Organisations on flexibility, diversity and work-life strategies, including leading Australian law firms, AMP, Alcoa, A.T. Kearney, Shell International, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Caltex, Colgate Palmolive, BP, IBM, Australia Post, Nestle, Westpac. Graeme is also the joint editor of an international book on Gender Equity and Organisational Change: International Perspectives on the Roles of Fathers and Mothers at the Workplace and a joint author of a recently released book First Time Father. He has co-authored several publications on flexibility, designed a flexibility training program for managers and has developed a return on investment model for flexibility initiatives.

Barbara Schneider

After eighteen years as professor of sociology and human development at the University of Chicago, Barbara Schneider has recently been appointed the John A. Hannah Chair University Distinguished Professorship in the College of Education and professor of sociology of education at Michigan State University. Dr. Schneider currently holds research appointments at the University of Chicago and NORC, where she is Co-Director of the Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work and the Director of the Data Research and Development Center, an IERI initiative. Interested in the lives of adolescents and their families and schools, Schneider has written widely on these topics. Her most recent publications include: The Ambitious Generation: America’s Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless, co-authored with David Stevenson, Yale University Press; Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work, co-authored with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Basic Books; and Trust in Schools, A Core Resource for Improvement, co-authored with Anthony Bryk, Russell Sage Foundation. She and Linda Waite have recently completed a book based on findings from the Sloan 500 Family Study exploring the lives of working families entitled Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance, Cambridge University Press. Schneider is currently conducting a new random assignment project, TEACH Research, that is designed to improve adolescents’ transition to post secondary education.

As the Co-Director of The Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work, she has examined how working families make investments in time and resources, how these choices are made, the effects these investments have on the quality of relationships in the both household and the workplace, and the resulting socialization of school-age children and adolescents. Her research interests focus on the issues facing working parents and their children by conceptually defining the research issues and exploring new research methodologies to understand how the working family conflict affects parents, children, and family life. Dr. Schneider studies the working family dynamic not only from the perspective of the adults in the household and in the workplace, but also through the perspective of the children. Concerned with issues of social justice and inequality, she uses a sociological lens to understand societal conditions and interpersonal interactions that create norms and values that enhance human and social capital. Her current interests include how social contexts, primarily schools and families, influence individuals’ interests and actions.

Schneider serves on a number of advisory boards including the AERA Grants Board. Recently, she was selected by the American Sociological Association as the new editor of Sociology of Education. Dr. Schneider received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Bradd Shore

Bradd Shore serves as director of Emory’s Center on Myth and Ritual in American Life (“MARIAL”), a Sloan Center on Working Families, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Program on Dual-Career Working Middle Class Families. The Emory Center promotes scholarly studies of myth and ritual among working families in the southeastern United States, helps train the next generation of scholars to focus attention on these areas, and aims to use its research insights to foster positive social change.

A cultural anthropologist, Shore’s research portfolio has made him a leading authority on Samoan culture and the study of Polynesian societies. His theoretical orientation also has been interdisciplinary, as he tries to reconcile interpretive approaches of cultural anthropology with findings in other fields such as cognitive psychology, ethics and literature. He is the only anthropologist ever to have been asked to give the Heinz Werner Lectures in psychology at Clark University.

An award-winning teacher, Shore has been a member of the Emory faculty since 1982. He previously was a member of the faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz and at Sarah Lawrence College. At Emory he teaches an unusual course co-listed in the English and anthropology departments called “Ritual in Shakespeare”.

Shore has been a member of the organizing committee for an exhibit based on Margaret Mead’s papers (some 800,000 documents) for an exhibit at the Library of Congress, and he has served as president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

Shore holds an undergraduate degree in English (with an emphasis on Shakespeare) from the University of California at Berkeley, and master’s and doctoral degrees in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago.

Michael Smyer

Michael Smyer is co-director of the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Psychology, all at Boston College. A specialist in geriatric mental health research, his research interests include the impact of context on an individual’s adjustment to aging. Dr. Smyer is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Gerontological Society of America and a recent recipient of the M. Powell Lawton award for distinguished contributions to clinical geropsychology. He has been on the editorial boards of the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, Psychology and Aging, and, currently, Generations and is the co-author of Aging and Mental Health. Dr. Smyer is currently the co-principal investigator of the National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development, the Study of Aging and Work in Industry Sectors, and The Meaning of Work Study, all of which are being conducted by the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility. Dr. Smyer was a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.

Stephen Sweet

Stephen Sweet is an assistant professor of sociology at Ithaca College. His studies appeared in a variety of publications, including Family Relations, New Directions in Life Course Research, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Innovative Higher Education, Journal of College Student Development, and Community, Work, and Family. His books, College and Society: An Introduction to the Sociological Imagination and Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics have been extensively adopted in sociology courses. Most recently he coauthored (with Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Ellen Ernst Kossek), the Work and Family Handbook: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Methods and Approaches. He is currently writing a book concerning the challenges of working in the new economy and how they emerged, a series of articles on how couples manage job insecurity and career transitions across the life course, and developing resources for teaching work and family.

Linda J. Waite, Ph.D.

Dr. Linda J. Waite is the Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include social demography, aging, the family, health, working families, the link between biology, psychology and the social world. In addition to teaching, she acts as co-director of The Center on Aging, co-director of the Center on Parents, Children, and Work, an Alfred P. Sloan Working Families Center, and is a member of the Institute for Mind and Biology which motivates transdisciplinary research examining the interaction between the mind and the body’s biological system. In 2004, she became co-director of the dual degree MD/PhD Program in Medicine, the Social Sciences, and Aging with the Pritzker School of Medicine.

Professor Waite has performed extensive research in marriage and family structure, and is well-known for her books The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better off Financially (Doubleday, 2000), co-written with Maggie Gallagher; and New Families, No Families? The Transformation of the American Home, co-written with Frances K. Goldscheider (University of California Press, 1991). She has also contributed as editor of Aging, Health, and Public Policy: Demographic and Economic Perspectives; and as co-editor of Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and The Ties that Bind: Perspectives on Marriage and Cohabitation (Aldine de Gruyter, 2000). Dr. Waite has authored numerous papers, articles, and book reviews which have appeared in scholarly journals and volumes such as the Journal of Marriage and the Family, Population and Development Review, The Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and The Handbook of Population.

Since the beginning of her career, Dr. Waite has maintained considerable involvement in professional activities which includes the National Research Board of the National Marriage Project on which she has served since 1998 as well as membership on the DBASSE Advisory Committee with the National Academies. In 1995, Professor Waite served as President of Population Association of America. With the National Institutes of Health, she was a member of the Committee to Select the Director with the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research from 2003-2004. Currently Dr. Waite leads innovative research projects which have received generous grant support from the National Institute of Aging. Those projects include “Social Life, Health, and Illness at Older Ages” (co-Principal Investigator), “The Social Environment, Loneliness, Stress and Health” with John Cacioppo and Mary Elizabeth Hughes (co-Principal Investigator) and “The Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging” (Principal Investigator). Professor Waite received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Joan C. Williams, J.D. and M.A., Harvard Law School and MIT
B.A., Yale University

Joan C. Williams, a prize-winning author and expert on work/family issues, is the author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000), which won the 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. In 2006, she was awarded the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement award, and was invited to give the Massey Lectures at Harvard University. She has authored or co-authored four books and over fifty law review articles (including one of the most cited ever written); her work is reprinted in casebooks on six different subjects; she has given over two hundred speeches and presentations in North and Latin America to groups as diverse as the National Employment Lawyers’ Association, the Denver Rotary Club, the American Philosophical Society, and the Modern Language Association, and has lectured at virtually every leading U.S. university. Founding Director of WorkLife Law (WLL), she joined the faculty at University of California at Hastings as Distinguished Professor of Law in the fall of 2005. She has played a leading role in documenting workplace bias against mothers. Her “Beyond the Maternal Wall: Relief for Family Caregivers Who Are Discriminated Against on the Job,” 26 Harvard Women’s Law Review 77 (2003), (co-authored with Nancy Segal), was prominently cited in Back v. Hastings on Hudson Union Free School District, 2004 U.S. App. Lexis 6684 (2d Cir. April 7, 2004). She also has played a central role in organizing social scientists to document maternal wall bias, notably in a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues (2004), which she co-edited with Monica Biernat and Faye Crosby. Her current work focuses on how work/family conflict affects families across the social spectrum, with a particular focus on how caregiving issues arise in union arbitrations. For more information visit www.worklifelaw.org.