Policies to Promote Women’s Economic Opportunity

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10 am – 3 pm
Oberndorf Event Center, North Building Room 302
655 Knight Way
Stanford, CA 94305

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On October 19, The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, LeanIn.Org, and Stanford Law School will co-host a forum at Stanford University exploring public policies to promote women’s economic opportunity.

The forum will include a fireside chat with Facebook chief operating officer and LeanIn.Org founder Sheryl Sandberg and remarks by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and Stanford Law School Dean M. Elizabeth Magill. The forum will also feature three moderated roundtable discussions on topics including: advancing women’s participation in the workforce; expanding access to affordable, high-quality childcare; and building lifelong economic security.

In conjunction with this event, The Hamilton Project at Brookings will release a new book entitled The 51%: Driving Growth through Women’s Economic Participation, which consists of policy proposals on a range of topics including: expanding access to paid sick leave, parental leave, and childcare; promoting fair scheduling and pay transparency; safeguarding the economic security of older women; and improving tax incentives for working women. The event will also include discussion of LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company’s Women in the Workplace 2017, a comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate America.

 

Agenda
Time Event
9:30 am Registration Opens
10:00 am Opening Remarks
M. Elizabeth Magill – Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean, Stanford Law School
Robert E. Rubin – Former U.S. Treasury Secretary; Co-Chair Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
10:15 am Roundtable: Making Work Pay: Advancing Women’s Participation in the Labor Force
Debra Ness – President, National Partnership for Women and Families
Heather Boushey – Director, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Laphonza Butler – President, SEIU Local 2015
Jesse Rothstein – Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment; Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: Marne Levine – Chief Operating Officer, Instagram
11:15 am Break
11:25 am Roundtable: Expanding Access to Affordable, High-Quality Child Care
Aparna Mathur – Resident Scholar; Economic Policy, American Enterprise Institute
Ingrid Mezquita – Executive Director, First 5 San Francisco
Cheryl Polk – President, HighScope Educational Research Foundation
Elizabeth Cascio – Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
Moderator: Diane Schanzenbach – Margaret Walker Alexander Professor and Director; The Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
12:25 pm Buffet Luncheon
1:00 pm Framing Remarks
Deborah Rhode – Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law; Director of the Center on the Legal Profession; Director of the Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship, Stanford Law School
1:10 pm Roundtable: Building Lifelong Economic Security
The Honorable Anna Eshoo – U.S. Representative, The 18th District of California
Nancy McPherson – State Director, AARP California
Karen Dynan – Professor of Practice, Harvard University
Sara LaLumia – Associate Professor; Department of Economics, Williams College
Moderator: Jay Shambaugh – Director, The Hamilton Project; Senior Fellow – Economic Studies,The Brookings Institution
2:05 pm Research Presentation: Women in the Workplace 2017
Rachel Thomas – President, LeanIn.Org
2:15 pm Fireside Chat: What Can Employers do to Support Women in the Workforce?
Sheryl Sandberg – Chief Operating Officer, Facebook; Founder, LeanIn.Org
Moderator: Shelley J. Correll – Barbara D. Finberg Director, Clayman Institute Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
3:00 pm  Forum Adjourns

Organizers

Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession

Stanford Law School