Half Changed World

It seems to be my turn to be sick, so I don’t have the energy to write anything coherent tonight. And I owe people responses to their thoughtful comments on some recent posts.

So, I’m just sharing some resources tonight:

1)  Via the Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College, I learned that the November issue of the ANNALS of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, on "Mommies and Daddies on the Fast Track", edited by Jerry Jacobs and Janice Fanning Madden, is available for free until the end of March.

It looks like there are a lot of interesting articles there, including:

The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family, By Claudia Goldin
Family-Friendly Workplace Reform: Prospects for Change, By Amy L. Wax
Fast-Track Women and the "Choice" to Stay Home, By Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy
Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy, By Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden
Overworked Faculty: Job Stresses and Family Demands, By Jerry A. Jacobs and Sarah E. Winslow
The Mommy Track and Partnership: Temporary Delay or Dead End?, By Mary C. Noonan and Mary E. Corcoran
Mothers in Finance: Surviving and Thriving, By Mary Blair-Loy and Amy S. Wharton
The Evolution of Gender and Motherhood in Contemporary Medicine, By Ann Boulis
Mommies and Daddies on the Fast Track in Other Wealthy Nations, By Gwen Moore
Elite Careers and Family Commitment: It’s (Still) about Gender, By Scott Coltrane
Where We Are Now and Future Possibilities, By Joyce P. Jacobsen
Policy Alternatives for Solving Work-Family Conflict, By Heidi Hartmann
The Contemporary Myth of Choice, By Rosanna Hertz

2)  Next Friday, the Center on Law and Social Policy is having an audioconference featuring Kathy Edin, co-author of Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.  Edin’s last book, Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work dramatically changed the dialogue about welfare, forcing lots of liberals to acknowlege that many welfare recipients were in fact working but not reporting their earnings, and conservatives to acknowledge that it’s all but impossible to live on welfare benefits.  I’m very interested in hearing what she has to say about her new book.

3) Someone I know through an email list is helping put together a panel that will address gender equity in Math/Science for the NY United Federation of Teachers. The panel is May 21 and the conference is in Manhattan (NYC).  They are looking for a couple of speakers/panelists who are in science/medicine/engineering who are esp. willing to address the infamous Larry Summers comments re: women in science, and can pay for expenses.  If you’re interested, email me and I’ll pass your message on.

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