{"id":364,"date":"2007-10-15T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2007-10-15T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T19:25:00","slug":"feminist-all-stars-at-new-school-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/10\/15\/feminist-all-stars-at-new-school-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist All-Stars at New School Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RxO0ckklvzI\/AAAAAAAAAkQ\/xzrUXekbH9I\/s1600-h\/img_masthead.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RxO0ckklvzI\/AAAAAAAAAkQ\/xzrUXekbH9I\/s200\/img_masthead.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As Ann over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\">feministing<\/a> says, it&#8217;s like the work\/life all-stars over at the New School tomorrow.  Just a reminder to come hear the preeminent thinkers on women, work, motherhood, and the so-called &#8220;opt-out revolution&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>WORKING MOTHERS: WHO&#8217;S OPTING OUT?<br \/>Tuesday, October 16, 7 p.m., $8 admission<br \/>The New School, New York City<br \/>Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve read the articles&#8211;and gotten angry at the debate. Are vast numbers of working mothers bolting the career track&#8211;or dreaming of doing so? Are elite women betraying feminism by staying home with their children? Or do the Opt-Out stories rely too heavily on anecdotal evidence&#8211;while shoving aside actual labor statistics and working families&#8217; needs?<\/p>\n<p>JOIN US as some of the KEY THINKERS and CRITICS of the &#8220;opt-out&#8221; storyline DISCUSS &amp; DEBATE the real state of working motherhood in America today.<\/p>\n<p>Moderated by E.J. Graff, senior researcher, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, Brandeis University, collaborator on <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Getting Even: Why Women Don&#8217;t Get Paid Like Men and What to Do About It.<\/span>  The panel includes Joan Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and author of <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It<\/span>; Linda Hirshman, lawyer, professor emeritus Brandeis University and author of <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Get to Work<\/span>; Heather Boushey, senior economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research, and co-author of <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Hardships in America and The Real Story of Working Families<\/span>; and Ellen Bravo, author of <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Taking On the Big Boys: Why Feminism Is Good for Families and Business and the Nation<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>More info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschool.edu\/generalstudies\/events.aspx?id=11640\">here<\/a>.  I&#8217;m totally planning to go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ann over at feministing says, it&#8217;s like the work\/life all-stars over at the New School tomorrow. Just a reminder to come hear the preeminent thinkers on women, work, motherhood, and the so-called &#8220;opt-out revolution&#8221;: WORKING MOTHERS: WHO&#8217;S OPTING OUT?Tuesday, October 16, 7 p.m., $8 admissionThe New School, New York CityWollman Hall, 65 West 11th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[431,21938],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-research","tag-worklife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}