| September 30, 2004 Discussion with Sylvia Ann Hewelett, Author and Economist At Fogartey's $20 entrance fee and cash bar The evening’s featured speaker was Sylvia Ann Hewlett, former Bronxville resident, economist and author most recently of Creating a Life. She discussed the balancing act we face in managing between work and life, career and children. Her talk focused on "Off ramps, On ramps, Byways, Feeder Roads and Acceleration Lanes: Creative Takes on the Career Highway." An accomplished scholar and policy analyst, Sylvia was a riveting speaker with a wealth of real world stories. Sylvia is Director of the Gender and Public Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She is the founding President of the Center for Work-Life Policy, a non-profit organization which seeks to develop policies that enhance work-life balance. She also heads up a new private sector Task Force entitled “The Hidden Brain Drain: Women and Minorities as Unrealized Assets.” The Task Force will tackle the urgent challenge of how to retain and advance highly qualified women and minorities, many of whom are opting out of mainstream careers. A recent study shows that fully 33% of women with MBA degrees are not in full time jobs – compared to 5% of their male peers. The first woman to head up the Economic Policy Council B think tank comprised of 125 business and labor leaders. Sylvia is well known for her expertise on gender and workplace issues. Her books include When the Bough Breaks (winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize), Creating A Life (named by Business Week as one of the top ten books of 2002) and The War Against Parents (co-authored with Cornel West). Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Harvard Business Review. She has taught at Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton Universities and held fellowships at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London and the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard. In recent years Sylvia has become the go-to person on issues of gender. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, Newsnight with Aaron Brown, NBC Nightly News, Oprah, The View, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation B and has been lampooned on Saturday Night Live. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, Sylvia earned her Ph.D. degree in economics at London University. |
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