Charmaine Yoest is the Project Director of the Family, Gender and Tenure Project in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. This a nationwide study focused on parental leave policy funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Bankard Fund . Dr. Yoest conducts in-depth research into social and family policy issues. Beginning her career in The White House during the Reagan Administration, Charmaine is now an author, and a political analyst.

As an expert on domestic social policy, Dr. Yoest has provided Congressional testimony before both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as testifying before the New Jersey State Senate, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, and the Virginia State School Board. She is the co-author of Mother in the Middle, an examination of work/family and childcare policy, and she is currently working on her next book, Empowering Shakespeare's Sister: The Politics of Parental Leave.

Dr. Yoest has appeared on all of the major networks and cable outlets, including NBC's Today Show, CBS' Evening News and CBS This Morning; NBC; MSNBC; Hardball with Chris Matthews; Hannity and Colmes; The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; CNN's Crossfire, Headline News, The Jesse Jackson Show; McLaughlin's One on One; Technopolitics with Jim Glassman; C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and she was a regular guest on ABC’s Politically Incorrect.

In print, Dr. Yoest has been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The American Enterprise, Policy Review, The Women’s Quarterly, and has been a guest columnist several times for USA Today. She has been quoted, among others, in The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The National Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Congressional Quarterly Researcher. She is the co-author of Mother in the Middle, (HarperCollins) an examination of work/family and childcare policy, and she is currently working on her next book, Empowering Shakespeare's Sister: The Politics of Parental Leave.

Previously, Dr. Yoest served as a Contributing Editor at Policy Review. She also served as Deputy Director of Public Policy for the Family Research Council, where she was responsible for policy development on family formation and women's issues. This included work on welfare reform, education, child care, adoption and poverty issues. Additionally, Charmaine has been an Instructor at the University of Virginia, teaching Politics and the Family. And, as a recipient of Mellon, Olin, Bradley and Kohler Fellowships, she has done work on tax policy, child care policy, welfare reform and gender and the welfare state and was nominated for the Bradley Prize.

Dr. Yoest has Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Virginian, an M.A. in American Government from the University of Virginia and a B.A. from Wheaton College. She also did graduate work at Oxford University in Ethics and Philosophy. She and her husband, Jack, are marathon runners and live with their five children in the Washington, DC area.

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