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| Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D., is the Project Director of The Family, Gender and Tenure Project, at the University of Virginia, a nationwide study on parental leave policy funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Bankard Fund. Beginning her career serving in The White House during the Reagan Administration, Charmaine is now an author and political analyst.
Charmaine's research focus is on domestic and international social policy. She is the co-author of Mother in the Middle, an analysis of work/family and child care policy and she is currently working on her next book, Empowering Shakespeare's Sister: The Politics of Parental Leave. In addition to her current research on parental leave and work/family policy, she received a Mellon Fellowship which involved work on gender and the welfare state. As a recipient of Bradley, Olin and Kohler Fellowships, she has also done extensive work on tax policy, child care policy, adoption and welfare reform. As an expert on domestic social policy, Charmaine has provided testimony before the United States Congress and regularly provides political commentary in print and on television. She has appeared on all of the major networks and cable outlets, including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; CNN's Crossfire, NPR, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and she was a regular guest on Politically Incorrect. She has also been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The American Enterprise, and has been a guest columnist several times for USA Today.
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