Working for Care: Families and the Workplace

February 27, 2005

On Tuesday, February 28th, at 6pm in room 129, Yale ACS,Yale Law Women, and Yale's Women Faculty Forum hosted an important session on child care and other related issues affecting individuals as they balance the demands of their work and family lives. 

You can watch streaming video of the event here. (You need RealPlayer to view the video, which you can get here.)

In addition to looking at how parents and other family members negotiate the relationship of family life and work life, the session's panelists examined understandings of public and private spheres that govern those negotiations.  They addressed such questions as the following:

How do contemporary concepts of individual and collective responsibility impact work/life policies?

How can legal and policy interventions create more family friendly work relations and better name discrimination biases?

To what extent are our goals shared or conflicting, and if so, can different visions be reconciled?

Panelists included:
Reva Siegel, Yale Law School
Nina Pillard, Georgetown University Law Center
Joan Williams, University of California Hastings College of Law
Chai Feldblum, Georgetown Unisversity Law Center
Kathleen Christensen, Sloan Foundation