Women, Wages & Work Conference

Date: June 9, 2008; 8:00am to 5:00pm
Location: UMass Boston Campus Center, Boston MA
Website: www.mccormack.umb.edu/centers/cwppp/womenwages&work.php 

Join us for a day of exciting speakers and strategy sessions to close the wage gap; advocate for family friendly benefits, retirement security, and work/life balance; and examine how to get women what they need in child care and job training.

Register Now:
Registration: $75.     Students: $35.
A limited number of scholarships are available. Click here to apply.
 
Featured Speakers (partial list):

• Lilly Ledbetter. Plaintiff in Supreme Court gender wage discrimination case: Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
• Eleanor Holmes Norton. U.S. Congresswoman (invited)
• Rosa DeLauro. U.S. Congresswoman (invited)
• Evelyn Murphy. Former Lt. Governor & Author of Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid as Much as Men and What to Do About It
• Teresa Heinz Kerry. Philanthropist and Trailblazer in Women's Retirement Security
• Suzanne Bump. Secretary, Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development
• Rocío Sáenz. President, SEIU Local 615
• Ann Bookman. Executive Director, MIT Workplace Center 
• Ellen Bruce. Director, Pension Action Center, UMass Boston 

Sponsored by the Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy at UMass Boston's McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies
 
PLANNING PARTNERS INCLUDE:

• Boston Women's Commission
• Crittenton Women's Union
• Mass Coalition for Women's Wage Equality
• Massachusetts  Commission on the Status of Women
• Service Employees International Union (SEIU Local 615)
• YWCA Boston 

SPONSORS INCLUDE (as of 4/30/08): 

• Catalyst ($5,000)
  John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies 
• Partner ($2,500)
  AARP
  Barbara Lee Family Foundation
  Crystal Transport
• Activist ($1,000)
  1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
  The Wage Project
• Supporter ($500)
  Center for Social Policy, UMass Boston
  The Ink Spot
  VA Boston Healthcare Systems
  Women's Bureay, U.S. Department of Labor Region I
  YWCAs of New England
• Friend ($150)
  Betty Taymor, Founder of Program for Women in Politics & Public Policy
  Institute for Women's Policy Research
  Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP
  Ruth Nemzoff, Bentley College 

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE (as of 4/30/08):

Boston College Center for Work & Family
Boston Women Communicators
Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women
Center for Women & Work, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Center for Women and Enterprise
Equality Commission
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
Greater Boston OWL, The Voice of Midlife and Older Women
Massachusetts Conference for Women
Massachusetts NOW
Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus
MIT Workplace Center, Sloan School of Management
National Council of Women's Organizations
One in 3 Boston
Political African-American Coalition, Inc. (PAAC)
Somerville Commission for Women
Voices for Workplace Change: Career
Counselors Advocating for Workers
Women in International Security - New England Chapter (WIIS)
Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts
Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts
Women's Leadership Institute, Bentley College
YWCA Cambridge
YWCA Greater Newburyport
YWCA Haverill
YWCA Malden, Center for Women and Families
YWCA Southeastern Massachusetts

For more information about the conference or how to become a sponsor, see www.mccormack.umb.edu/centers/cwppp/womenwages&work.php