When: Thursday, October 19, 2017, 1:00 — 6:00 EDT | 10:00 a.m. — 3:00 p.m. PDT
Where: http://www.hamiltonproject.org/events/policies_to_promote_womens_economic_opportunity
What:
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. Roundtable participants will include: Marne Levine, chief operating officer, Instagram; Debra Ness, president, National Partnership for Women and Families; U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-18); Laphonza Butler, president, SEIU Local 2015; Aparna Mathur, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Ingrid Mezquita, executive director, First 5 San Francisco; Heather Boushey, director, Washington Center for Equitable Growth; and Nancy McPherson, state director, AARP California, among other leading advocates, scholars, and policy experts.
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 child care; 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.
For updates on the event, follow @hamiltonproj, @LeanInOrg, and @StanfordLaw and join the conversation using #The51Percent.