For those of you in New York, there's an awesome event tomorrow at the New School featuring the preeminent thinkers on women, work, motherhood, and the so-called "opt-out revolution":
WORKING MOTHERS: WHO'S OPTING OUT?
Tuesday, October 16, 7 p.m., $8 admission
The New School, New York City
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)You've read the articles--and gotten angry at the debate. Are vast numbers of working mothers bolting the career track--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--while shoving aside actual labor statistics and working families' needs?
JOIN US as some of the KEY THINKERS and CRITICS of the "opt-out" storyline DISCUSS & DEBATE the real state of working motherhood in America today.
Moderated by E.J. Graff, senior researcher, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, Brandeis University, collaborator on Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men and What to Do About It.
The panel includes Joan Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and author of Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It; Linda Hirshman, lawyer, professor emeritus Brandeis University and author of Get to Work; Heather Boushey, senior economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research, and co-author of Hardships in America and The Real Story of Working Families; and Ellen Bravo, author of Taking On the Big Boys: Why Feminism Is Good for Families and Business and the Nation.
Seriously, it's like the all-star team of work/life issues...
Click here for more info. And if, like me, you can't make it to New York, fear not! They're going to be posting a video of the discussion online.
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I would love to go to this. Alas, I am stuck in the mid-west. I don't have kids yet, but evertime I read one of these articles I get angry at how it completely ignores a HUGE segment of the population of working mothers. Those which have to work, and those who want to work.
When I have a baby, I'll still need to work. Where's my article?
Woooo Brandeis!! *swings blue and white tassle* I wish I could be there.
(FTR, E.J. Graff can come off a little harsh, so don't be hurt if you go to talk to her and she's short with you. But Linda is AWESOME and you should totally go up to her.)