Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy

[Marilyn T. Smith]

EVERYONE--MEN AND WOMEN--WELCOME!

"Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community
and Survive the New Economy"
Prof. Ann Bookman, Executive Director of the MIT Workplace Center

Thursday, Nov 10, 4 PM, MIT Bldg 68 Rm 274
(http://whereis.mit.edu)

Prof. Ann Bookman is a social anthropologist who will discuss her new
book, Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build
Community and Survive the New Economy (Routledge 2004), which extends the
discourse on work-family integration to include issues of community
involvement and civil society. Bookman has held a variety of teaching,
research, and administrative positions and has also worked in government,
as a presidential appointee during the first term of the Clinton
administration, as Policy and Research Director of the Women's Bureau at
the U.S. Department of Labor, and as Executive Director of the bipartisan
Commission on Family and Medical Leave.


Co-sponsored by Graduate Women in Science and the MIT Postdoctoral
Advisory Council

For more information, visit www.gwisboston.org
or email beuning at mit.edu
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