Scholars from WCW shared their expertise with Patricia Green, Ph.D., director of the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, during a special May meeting in Boston, MA. At the invitation of Jacqueline Cooke, regional administrator of the Bureau, Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director, was joined by Nancy Marshall, Ed.D., WCW associate director, and Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D., both WCW senior research scientists from the Work, Families, & Children’s Research Team, and Sari Pekkela Kerr, Ph.D., WCW economist/ senior research scientist, for the roundtable discussion with policy researchers. The priorities of the Women’s Bureau this year are child care and apprenticeship in new non-traditional fields for women, including technology, health, and transportation.
