Authors Discuss Strategies for Career/Family Parity Between Working Couples

Authors Discuss Strategies for Career/Family Parity Between Working Couples

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Tue, 03/02/2010 - 11:08am

Molly Selvin, School of Public Affairs Senior Fellow and assistant dean at Southwestern School of Law, joined authors Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober as the moderator of a career services-sponsored event, "Getting to 50/50, How Working Couples Can Have It All" held in the UCLA School of Public Affairs building on February 25, 2010.

Meers and Strober interviewed hundreds of parents and employers, surveyed more than a thousand working mothers, and combed through the latest government and social science research to examine the benefits of sharing family responsibilities between two working parents.  They shared their findings with graduate students from public policy, urban planning, social welfare, law, and business and offered strategies for working mothers facing gender bias in the workplace; advice to fathers new to the homefront; and tips for finding 50/50 solutions to deal with issues of money, time.

Pictured in this photo from the UCLA School of Public Affairs are (left to right): MPP student Lindsay Ross, Sharon Meers, Molly Selvin, associate dean Fernando Torres-Gil, career services director Sherry Dodge, urban planning master's student Priya Zachariah, public policy professor Amy Zegart, and Yvonne Denenny, career services director from the UCLA School of Law.

Molly Selvin, School of Public Affairs Senior Fellow and assistant dean at Southwestern School of Law, joined authors Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober as the moderator of a career services-sponsored event, "Getting to 50/50, How Working Couples Can Have It All" held in the UCLA School of Public Affairs building on February 25, 2010.