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Joan C. Williams |
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Joan C. Williams has played a
central role in reshaping the debates over gender,
class, and work-family issues for the quarter
century. The culmination of this work is
Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class
Matter (Harvard, 2010). Williams' prize-winning
book Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict
and What To Do About It (Oxford, 2000), and reports
such as The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict
(co-authored with Heather Boushey); Opt Out or Pushed
Out: How the Press Covers Work-Family Conflict, and
One Sick Child Away from Being Fired: When Opting Out
is not an Option have influenced policymakers, the
press, and activists.
Williams, who is
Distinguished Professor of Law and 1066 Foundation Chair
at University of California, Hastings College of the
Law, has authored or co-authored six books and over
seventy law review articles, including one listed in
1996 as one of the most cited law review articles ever
written.
As Founding Director of the Center for
WorkLife Law, Williams has played a central role in
documenting workplace discrimination against adults with
family responsibilities. WorkLife Law works with
employers, employees, employment lawyers, unions and
public policymakers to eliminate discrimination against
caregivers, to develop best-practice workplace
flexibility policies, and to facilitate adoption of
public policies to reconcile work and
family. Williams also is co-founder (with Cynthia
Thomas Calvert) of the Project for
Attorney Retention, which has played a leadership
role for the past decade in helping the legal profession
advance and retain women, and offer work-life balance to
men as well as women.
Williams current research
focuses on how work-family conflict differs at different
class locations; on the "culture wars" as class
conflict; on how gender bias differs by race; and on the
role of gender pressures on men in creating work-family
conflict and gender inequality. Follow her work on
her Huffington
Post blog.
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Cynthia Thomas
Calvert |
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Cynthia Thomas Calvert is WLL
Senior Advisor for Family Responsibilities
Discrimination. Calvert practices law in the District of
Columbia and Maryland. She was with the D.C. litigation
firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, L.L.P.
(now Baker Botts LLP) for fourteen years, six as a
partner. At MCLL, she worked full-time, part-time, and
flex-time. She has now set up her own employment law
practice, in which she counsels businesses about issues
such as employment contracts, non-compete clauses,
employee manuals, sexual harassment prevention, and
terminations. See www.CynthiaCalvert.com.
Calvert speaks frequently about
attorney retention, alternative work arrangements, and
women in the law. She has written numerous articles that
have appeared in the ABA's Law Practice
Management magazine, The Legal Times and
Raising The Bar (Women's Bar Association of the
District of Columbia), and on the Internet. She is
co-author (with Joan Williams) of Solving the
Part-Time Puzzle: The Law Firm's Guide to Balanced
Hours (NALP, 2004). Calvert is a graduate of the
Georgetown University Law Center (cum laude,
1985), where she was a staff member and production
editor of the American Criminal Law Review. After
graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Thomas
Penfield Jackson, United States District Court for the
District of Columbia. She is married and has two
children.
Penelope Huang is the Research Sociologist at the Center for WorkLife Law and the Project for Attorney Retention. She has worked with PAR and WLL on a variety of projects including a qualitative study of gender bias in academia and a survey study of the gendered career trajectories of law school graduates.
In addition to her work at WLL, Penny is a senior research analyst with Applied Survey Research, where she conducts evaluation research for non-profit, state and county-administered programs and initiatives to evaluate efficacy and to render recommendations for program improvements. As an independent research consultant, she has advised on workforce development, diversity, and EEO compliance issues, and authored a comprehensive study on the work-life policies and practices of Atlanta area law firms for the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers which examines the mismatch between firm policies and attorneys’ needs.
Penny received a bachelor’s degree cum laude from UC Irvine, a master’s degree in Psychology from Brandeis University, and a doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Washington, where her dissertation assessed gendered inequalities in the workplace and family and examined public policy efforts at the work-family intersection. She received postdoctoral training in family demography at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and she has taught undergraduate courses in gender, family, and research methods at the University of Washington, Mills College, and Sonoma State University.
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Linda Marks |
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Linda Marks is Director of
Training and Special Projects for WLL. She has over
25 years experience in corporate consulting and training
and specific expertise in flexible work arrangements and
work-life balance. She previously directed the Work Time
Options in the Legal Profession project for New Ways to
Work (NWW), a nonprofit organization founded in 1972 to
promote workplace flexibility, and is co-author of
Negotiating Time: New Scheduling Options in the
Legal Profession. While at NWW she also directed
the FlexGroup, a consortium of 14 companies that were
taking the lead in moving workplace flexibility forward
as a business strategy. Included in this group were
Hewlett-Packard, Marriott International, Royal Bank of
California, Chevron and other major corporations.
In addition, Marks worked for WFD
(Work Family Directions), a Boston-based consulting
firm, and for Rupert & Company as part of their
flexibility consulting and training practices, working
remotely from her home in San Francisco. She is a
frequent presenter and has spoken to meetings of the
American Bar Association, Association of Legal
Administrators, NALP and the state bars of California,
Washington, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.
She is currently working with the Bar Association of San
Francisco on their Work/Life Balance task force. She
holds a bachelor's degree cum laude from
Brandeis University.
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Manar Sweillam Morales |
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Manar Sweillam Morales is Senior Advisor of WLL and Executive
Director of PAR. Morales practices law in the
District of Columbia and Maryland, where she is Of
Counsel with the firm of Barr & Camens. Prior to
joining Barr & Camens, she was an associate with the
firm of Woodley & McGillivary. She has represented
labor unions and employees in all aspects of labor
relations and employment law. She also represents and
advises employee benefit plans in all areas of employee
benefit law. Morales has litigation experience in
federal court, before federal administrative agencies,
and in arbitration. In addition, Morales is an adjunct
faculty member of Georgetown University, where she
teaches labor and employment law in Georgetown's
Paralegal Studies Program.
Morales is a 1997 graduate of the
Columbus School of Law, Catholic University. She is a
member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bar.
Morales is also a member of the Women's Bar Association
and on the Steering Committee for the Lawyers at Home
Forum. She is married and has two
children.
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