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Domestic Work, Migration and Gender

March 9, 2011

This forum, organized by DAMAYAN Migrant Workers Association and co-sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard Women's Studies, and the National…

Valuing Domestic Work

January 1, 2011

Domestic work—the daily maintenance of households and the labor of caring for children and other dependents—is crucial work. It enables workers to go out…

The Work-Family Dilemma: A Better Balance

July 1, 2010

Recognizing the need for a forum to discuss work-family issues that focused on issues across the economic spectrum, A Better Balance: The Work and…

Women, Work, and the Academy: Strategies for Responding to ‘Post-Civil Rights Era’ Gender Discrimination

April 1, 2010

This report is based on the Virginia C. Gildersleeve Conference at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, with keynote speakers Nancy Hopkins, Claude…

September 1, 2009

Contributors include Eileen Boris, Christine E. Bose, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jennifer Klein, Wendy Kozol, Pei-Chia Lan, Premilla Nadasen,…

Women and Work: Building Solidarity with America’s Vulnerable Workers

National Domestic Workers Alliance

June 15, 2009

Last year, BCRW hosted the first National Domestic Workers Alliance conference, bringing together domestic workers from across the country to develop a national agenda,…

Off-Ramps and On-Ramps

Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Elizabeth Vargas

April 1, 2009

Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett (top image, left) and news anchor and correspondent Elizabeth Vargas (second image, left) will engage in a discussion on the…

September 2, 2008

Women have always contributed to the workforce in formal and informal ways, but their labor has not always been recognized. Karl Marx stated that…

National Domestic Workers Alliance Conference

June 6, 2008

This June, BCRW joins Domestic Workers United in their educational efforts on fair labor standards for domestic workers in New York, including a living…

Breaking Down Barriers: Women and Their Experiences in the Sciences

Alison Williams, Nkechi Agwu, and Peggy Shepard

April 2, 2008

Despite the fact that enrollment of women studying in the sciences has risen to comparable numbers as that of white men in higher education,…

July 2, 2004

Contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Laura Coats, Rory Dicker, Ayun Halliday, Heather Hewitt, Anastasia Higginbotham, Lisa Johnson, Alison Piepmeier, Vanessa Raney, Amy Richards, Deborah Siegel,…
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