| Lauren Appelbaum works as a Lecturer at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her research focuses on attitudes toward poverty and poor people, specifically the factors involved in making decisions about the distribution of aid. Previously, Appelbaum worked at the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, conducting research projects examining public opinion toward policies and issues affecting low-income families and children. Before working at NCCP, she received a post-doctoral fellowship through the Social Science Research Council to conduct attitudinal research at the Free University of Berlin in Germany. Appelbaum also serves as a representative to the United Nations through the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Lauren Appelbaum received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Yale University.  |
| Heather Boushey is a senior economist with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. She was formerly a senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Her work focuses on the U.S. labor market, social policy, and work and family issues. Dr. Boushey’s work ranges from examinations of current trends in the U.S. labor market and how families balance work and child care needs to how young people have fared in today’s economy and health insurance coverage. She has testified before the U.S. Congress and authored numerous reports and commentaries on issues affecting working families, including the implications of the 1996 welfare reform. She is a co-author of "The State of Working America 2002-3" and "Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families." |
| Françoise Carré, Ph.D. is Research Director at the Center for Social Policy, J. W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Carré is an expert on labor economics and industrial relations, specializing in socio economic inequality, work transformation, and temporary work. She is completing the National Study of Alternative Staffing Services, sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Previous works include: "Looking for Leverage in a Fluid World: Innovative Responses to Temporary and Contract Work." F. Carré and P. Joshi. In F. Carré, M. A. Ferber, L. Golden, and S. Herzenberg, eds., Nonstandard Work: The Nature and Challenge of Changing Employment Arrangements (Industrial Relations Research Association/Cornell University Press, 2000). She previously served as research director at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies . She also is an Affiliated Fellow, Center for Women and Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College, and she received her Ph.D. from the Department of Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. . |
Eileen L. Collins is a Milwaukee -based economist focused on emerging science and technology issues and their implications for people both inside and outside the research community.Dr. Collins conducted and directed numerous studies of the complex inter-linkages among government policies, investments in science and technology, and their social and economic outcomes as an analyst and manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Her most recent accomplishment while at NSF was launch of a pilot web site to help researchers and the public locate data and research about the social and economic implications of information technologies.In 1994, Dr. Collins served as Acting Assistant Director for Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President. She subsequently managed the "Assessment Process" for OSTP and the Committee on Fundamental Science of the President's National Science and Technology Council for which she wrote the report "Assessing Fundamental Science." She earned the B.A. in economics from Bryn Mawr College and the M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin--Madison. |
| Niki T. Dickerson is an Assistant Professor in Rutgers' Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations. Her specialization is in race/gender occupational segregation and labor market stratification. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Dickerson is co-editing a book with David Williams and James Jackson that include eight empirical studies which focus on coping mechanisms utilized by African-Americans to manage racial discrimination. Upcoming work includes a study of the role of residential segregation on race/gender occupational segregation and a study on segregation among and within colleges with Jerry Jacobs. |
| Sarah Gammage is an Economist and the Washington D.C. representative of the Centro de Estudios Ambientales y Sociales para el Desarrollo Sostenible, a Non-Governmental Organization in El Salvador she is also an affiliate at the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University. Her research includes examining the effects of macroeconomic policy and globalization on women in Latin America; exploring the impact of migration, internal displacement and refugee status on the intergenerational transmission of poverty; and analyzing human-environment interactions in diverse ecosystems. Over the last ten years, she has worked with a number of development organizations including the United Nations Development Programme, the International Center for Research on Women, and the International Institute for Environment and Development. She is the board chair of the Ecumenical Program in Central America and serves on the Latin American Committee of the American Friends Service Committee. She has a master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and doctorate in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies. She is an active member of the Latin American Studies Association, the International Association for Feminist Economics and the American Economic Association. |
| Lonnie Golden is Ph.D. in economics and is currently Associate Professor of Economics at Penn State University, Abington College. His research primarily focuses on the economics of the labor market. In particular, it analyzes trends in working hours, overwork, labor market flexibility and the non-standard work force. He is co-editor of the books, Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy (with Deb Figart, Routledge Press, 2001) and Nonstandard Work: The Nature and Challenge of Changing Employment Arrangements (with F. Carré, M. Ferber and S. Herzenberg, Champaign, Ill: Industrial Relations Research Association/Cornell University Press, 2000). Some of his most recent research studies include, “Time After Time: Mandatory Overtime Work and Reforming Federal and State Overtime Hours Provisions,” “The Benefits to Organizations of Work Schedule Flexibility,” “Doing Something about Long Hours,” Is Labour Input Becoming More or Less Flexible?, “Mandatory Overtime: Evidence and Collective Bargaining and Legislative Solutions,” “Forced Overtime in the Land of the Free: From Problem to Solutions,” “The Failure to Reform the Workday,” “Compensatory Time Off Target,” “Alternative Approaches of Regulating Hours: Labor Demand, Labor Supply or Institutional Innovations?” Over-Supply of Labor: Behavioral Economic Roots of Labor Supply and Overwork,” “Which Workers are Nonstandard and Contingent and Does it Pay?” “Overemployment: Characteristics of Workers Employed Beyond their Usual Workweek,” Flexible Work Schedules: As Employee Benefit or Productivity Enhancement Tool?” and “The Flexibility Gap: Differential Access to Formal and Informal Flexible Work Schedules (funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.) |
| Leslie McCall is a joint appointee in Sociology (75%) and Women's and Gender Studies (25%). Her areas of interest include social inequality (gender, race, and class), economic and political sociology, methods, and social theory. Leslie’s research falls within four general areas.First, she is interested in the sources and consequences of wage inequality in the United States. Second, Leslie maintains an interest in feminist social theory and methodology, in particular the conceptualization and empirical analysis of multiple dimensions of social relations from a social science perspective. Third, Leslie conducts research on labor market trends in the New Jersey economy and has published The State of Working New Jersey (1997 and 2002). Finally, Leslie has a longstanding interest in the formation of immigrant identities among Arab Americans. More information about Leslie can be found at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lmccall |
| dt ogilvie is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management on the Faculty of Management at Rutgers, and is on the Advisory Board of the Rutgers Center for Entrepreneurial Management. Dr. ogilvie is a Fellow of the Center for Women and Work, and is also a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow, an Institute for Research on Women Funded Faculty Fellow, and a GE Teaching Fellow. She earned her Ph.D. in Strategic Management from The University of Texas at Austin, her MBA in Strategic Management and International Strategic Management from the Executive MBA Program at Southern Methodist University, her BA in Sociology from Oberlin College, and attended The Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching interests lie in the areas of strategic management and creativity in business.View info |
| Kris Paap is a sociologist specializing in issues of gender, class, race, and work, with an emphasis on occupational safety, sexual harassment, and the cultures that support harassment and discrimination. Dr. Paap is currently collaborating with Dr. Nancy Wolff and Dr. Cynthia Blitz at the Rutgers University Center for Mental Health Services and Criminal Justice Research on a series of projects investigating the barriers and bridges to women re-entering society after serving time in prison. |
Michele Tuck-Ponder, Esq., president of Ponder Solutions, Inc., has an extensive background in politics, government, media relations and public policy. A former mayor of Princeton Township (NJ), she has served as Assistant Counsel to Governor Jim Florio, Assistant Director of the NJ Division on Women and NJ Division on Civil Rights, Director of Development and Public Affairs at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and congressional aide to former U.S. Representative Louis Stokes and Senator Frank Lautenberg. She also was a Community Builder Fellow with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Camden and has served as a lecturer at Princeton and Rutgers Universities. |
| Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She teaches courses in engendering development, economics of the family, and quantitative methods. Her research focuses on the economics of gender, the economics of children, and development economics. Recent publications have covered topics such as updating child support schedules, the effect of globalization on gender earnings inequality; the impact of protective labor-market legislation on women's employment and earnings; the role of occupational segregation in explaining gender wage gaps; and trends in wage structures and gender wage gaps over time. Her international positions include working as a Visiting Scholar at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research in Taipei, Taiwan, and serving as Project Assistant with the Harvard Institute for International Development in Indonesia's Finance Ministry. She has also maintained a regular consulting relationship with the World Bank. Professor Rodgers received her BA in economics from Cornell University in 1987 and her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1993. |
| Patricia A. Roos is a Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, and a Fellow at the Center for Women and Work. Her current research and teaching interests include work and occupations, gender, and stratification. She has published extensively on gender and work, including two books: Gender and Work: A Comparative Analysis of Industrial Societies (SUNY Press, 1985) and Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations with Barbara Reskin (Temple University Press, 1990). Related published or current work include articles on the feminization of academic sociology (with Katharine Jones); the feminization of HR management and sex differences in earnings among HR managers (with Joan Manley); and the gender gap in earnings, occupational integration and gender equity, and gender equity in higher education (the last three with Mary Gatta). With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, she is engaged (with colleagues at the IWL/CWW ) on a study exploring the intersection of work, family, and community. |
| John Schmitt is a Washington-D.C.-based labor economist, who has written extensively for academic and popular publications on economic inequality, unemployment, the new economy, the economic impact of the welfare state, and other topics. Much of his research has focused on international comparisons of economic performance, particularly between the United States and Europe. Schmitt currently works as an economic consultant in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, for clients that include the Global Policy Network, the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank, the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, the Economic Policy Institute, and others. |
| Diana Sharpe teaches and researchers in the broad area of international comparative organization analysis. She is an affiliated fellow of the Center for Women and Work and holds a position as assistant professor in the School of Business at Monmouth University, New Jersey. She holds a BSc Hons in Management and an MSc in Organizational Psychology from the University of Management- School of Management, UK, an MBA from City University Business School, UK and a PhD from Manchester Business School, UK. Previously she had tenured positions at Birmingham University and Warwick Business School, UK. |
| Mary Trigg, is the Director of Leadership Programs and Research at the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include the history of American feminism, women’s education and leadership development, work and family issues, and community organizations. She directs the Leadership Scholars Certificate Program, a leadership education honors program for undergraduate women, sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and has co-founded four additional leadership programs at Rutgers, including the IWL High School Leadership Certificate Program. |
| Julie M. Whittaker is assistant professor of public policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. She also holds a joint appointment with the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Whittaker is a co-author of "Fringe Benefits, Wages and Unions: The Trends From 1984 to 1995 Among Males Working Full-Time" in Unions and the Labor Market (Russell Sage Foundation, forthcoming), the "Evaluation of the Workforce Development Partnership Program: New Jersey's Individual Training Grant Program," (Heldrich Center, 2000), and of The State of Working Wisconsin (Center on Wisconsin Strategy, 1996). She has also worked for the Institute for Women's Policy Research as a study director. There, she managed both the Status of Women in States and the Social Indicators of Women's Status projects. |