Taking on the Big Boys:Wed May 30, 2007 19:16
Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation (Paperback)
by Ellen Bravo (Author)
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About Ellen
Ellen Bravo is a long-time activist for working women. She began working for 9to5, National Association of Working Women in 1982, when she helped found the Milwaukee chapter, and served until 2004 as its national director. Now Ellen teaches Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, including masters level classes on Family-Friendly Workplaces and on Sexual Harassment, and serves as a consultant to 9to5. She coordinates the Multi-State Working Families Consortium, a network of state coalitions working for family-flexible policies. In addition to Taking on the Big Boys, Ellen co-authored (with Ellen Cassedy) The 9to5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and wrote The Job/Family Challenge: A 9to5 Guide (Not for Women Only. She’s also written numerous articles and reports, including “Quality Part-Time Options in Wisconsin,” funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and an article in the March 2007 special issue of the American Prospect. Ellen is frequently interviewed by the media and is a leading spokeswoman on working women’s issues. A business editor once described her talks as “moving, witty and sometimes bawdy.”
Ellen has served on several state and federal commissions, including the bi-partisan Commission on Leave appointed by Congress to study the impact of the Family and Medical Leave Act. She co-chaired the Economic Sufficiency Task Force of the Wisconsin Women = Prosperity project led by Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton and serves as treasurer for the campaign of Congresswoman Gwendolynne Moore. She is a member of several boards and committees, including the Working for Good Jobs in America Fund, the Work-Life Law Advisory Committee, the Ms. Foundation for Women Advisory Committee, and the Grants Advisory Committee of the Milwaukee Women’s Fund. Among her commendations is a Woman of Vision award from the Ms. Foundation. Ellen lives in Milwaukee with her husband; they have two adult sons.
http://www.ellenbravo.com/about_ellen.htm
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Some point to recent gains for women – Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for President, Harvard’s appointment of its first woman president, equal pay for women tennis players at Wimbledon – as proof that women in this country are well on their way to equality. In Taking on the Big Boys, Ellen Bravo hails that hard-won progress but warns against “abracadabra arithmetic – thinking that one or a few equals plenty.” Find out why Ellen says we have to go beyond smashing the glass ceiling to redesign the building, for women and men, from the ground up. Read more about the book >>>
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- INTERVIEW WITH ELLEN BRAVO — Wed May 30 19:51
- The Corruption Within Justice — Wed May 30 20:00
- TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS LISTEN UP! — Wed May 30 19:35
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