THE CARSEY INSTITUTE
WOMEN AND WORK COLLOQUIUM
FALL 2006
Presentations are held in the UNH Memorial Union Building (MUB) Room 302 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm. All are welcome to attend.
Wednesday, September 20
Wives’ Relative Earnings and Labor Force Participation: Does She Exit if She Earns More?
With Kristin Smith, Family Demographer, Carsey Institute
Do primary breadwinner wives exit the labor force? Using nationally representative survey data, this presentation explores several factors that influence labor force transitions of married mothers with children, with a specific spotlight on the role of wives’ earnings relative to their husbands.
Friday, October 20
Working Hard: The Survival Strategies of Single Mothers and Married Couples in a Rural County.
With Margaret Nelson, Hepburn Professor of Sociology, Middlebury College
This presentation compares the survival strategies of single mothers and married couples in one rural county in Vermont. Using an expanded notion of work, to include domestic activities and self provisioning as well as employment, Nelson illuminates some of the special problems faced by single mothers in rural communities.
Wednesday, November 1
The Gender Earnings Gap in New Hampshire: Comparing the economic status of working women in NH with NY and other states.
With Marilyn Gittell, Director of the Howard Samuels Center, CUNY Graduate Center and Bill McKinney, Deputy Director of the Howard Samuels Center.
And with Ross Gittell, James R. Carter Professor of Business and Economics and Allison Churilla, Carsey Policy Fellow
Two presentations will examine the economic status of working women in