Hofstra Cultural Center and Labor Studies Program present
Equal Pay Day 2016 Chore Wars! Gender Equality Comes Home Tuesday, April 12 2:20 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library First Floor, South Campus
Balancing the time demands of jobs and home life is nowhere more difficult than in the U.S. – the only advanced economy that does not require employers to offer paid vacation or parental leave. As women have increasingly moved into the formal labor force and as baby boomers pass retirement age, essential care work (child care, elder care, care for the disabled and home care) has increasingly shifted from the family domain to the market, raising important questions.
Trillium Fox, talent development principal at CA Technologies, a major Long Island employer ranked in 2015 among the 100 Best Places to Work nationwide.
Dr. Linda Houser of Widener University, author of major research studies on the employment and family impacts of recent paid leave policies.
Michael Elsas, founder and director of the Bronx-based Cooperative Home Care Associates, the largest worker-run cooperative in the U.S., with over 2,000 home care workers.
Admission is FREE and open to the public. For more information, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture. This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and Women’s Studies Program. 66143:3/16