[URPE] Columbia University Full Employment Seminar - Janet Gornick

[Matthew S Winters]

LOCATION: 1512 International Affairs Building, Columbia University, New
  York City

DATE: TUESDAY 7 February - 7:15 p.m. - 1512 IAB
  (Optional buffet dinner at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House)

SPEAKER:  Janet C. Gornick, City University of New York

TOPIC:  Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment: Drawing
  Lessons from Europe

Janet Gornick will speak about her cross-national comparative research on 
work-family policies aimed at simultaneously promoting child wellbeing, 
economic security for families, and gender equality.  Although the United 
States provides little in the way of public supports for working parents, other 
industrialized countries--especially the countries of northern and western 
Europe--have decades of experience providing public supports to families.  She 
will lay out a hypothetical package of public child care and paid family leave 
provisions, and discuss what it would cost to implement such a package in the 
United States

Janet C. Gornick, a Political Economist (Harvard Ph.D. 1994), is Professor of 
Political Science at Baruch College--City University of New York and at the 
CUNY Graduate Center.  She is also Associate 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.  It concerns the effects of family policies on child and family 
outcomes, especially public programs that affect parents' capacity to combine 
employment with caregiving--including child care, maternity and parental leave, 
the regulation of working time, and income transfers targeted on families with 
children.  Her recent book--Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Work 
and Family--co-authored by Marcia Meyers, (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003) is 
now in paperback.  She has also published numerous academic articles as well as 
popular ones in venues, including The American Prospect, Dissent, and Challenge 
Magazine.

***Please note that this seminar is on an UNUSUAL DAY--Tuesday 7 February--and 
is in an UNUSUAL PLACE--the Kellogg Center, Room 1512 on the 15th floor of the 
International Affairs Building.  If you do not have Columbia ID, please try to 
arrive early, as the building will be locked at 7:00.  Matt Winters, our 
rapporteur, will check for stragglers just before the seminar begins.***

Please RSVP to Matt Winters (msw22 at columbia.edu) by Friday 3 February.

Dinner is at 6:00 p.m. at Faculty House, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.  Enter via the 
gate on the east side of Broadway at 116TH STREET; go through campus and cross 
AMSTERDAM AVE.  Continue on West 116th past the Law School and turn left 
through the gate, turn right beyond Wein Hall on the right and go down the ramp 
to Faculty House.  Purchase a ticket for dinner ($19) at the ticket window on 
the first floor, and then the dinner buffet is in the DeWitt Clinton Dining 
Room on the fourth floor.

The seminar is at 7:15 p.m. in the KELLOGG CENTER on the 15th floor of the 
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BUILDING.  The street entrance for the International 
Affairs Building is on Amsterdam Avenue at the corner of 118th Street across 
from St. Paul's Chapel.

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