Whether you realize it or not, all that nagging housework can be eating into your job productivity and getting in the way of you getting ahead in your career – especially if you’re a woman, says Londa Schiebinger, director of Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Published on January 19, 2010 in Academe, Schiebinger’s study shows academic scientists spend about 19 hours a week on basic household chores. While the study singled out scientists, the patterns are familiar across much of the academic and professional worlds. The solution? Schiebinger urges universities and businesses to offer an employee benefit to pay for housework.
Panelists:
Londa Schiebinger: the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University and the Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute. Schiebinger’s work on the Housework benefit has appeared in the New York Times, the Economist Debates, and KALW.
Hilary Abell: Executive Director of WAGES Cooperative, a non-profit that builds worker-owned green businesses that create healthy, dignified jobs for low-income women.
Terry Desser: Associate Professor of Radiology and the Residency Program Director at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Desser was an Iris Litt Faculty Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
Diane Peck: Vice-President of Human Resources at Stanford University. Human Resources provides a variety of services for the university’s approximately 1,400 faculty members and 9,800 staffers.
Panel specifics:
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Location: Fisher Conference Center, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center; 326 Galvez Street; Stanford, CA, 94305
Free and open to all
Registration not required, but appreciated for purposes of planning
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More information: http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/Housework/index.html
Co-sponsored by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology