For the first time in our history, half of all U.S. workers are women. Mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families. What does this mean for our country? What policies need to be changed to address this new reality? Join the editors of The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything for a discussion of the findings of their new report on women in the workplace.

Heather Boushey is senior economist at the Center for American Progress. Boushey studies working families and trends in the U.S. labor market. Prior to joining the Center, Boushey was a senior economist with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.

Ann O’Leary is a senior fellow at American Progress and is the executive director of the Berkeley Center for Health, Economic & Family Security at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. From 2001 through 2003, she served as legislative director for then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and from 1994 through 2000 she served in a number of positions in the Clinton administration.

This will be in Room 180, and this is a public event.

Related Media