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...work/family policy, tax policy, Child care, family and women's issues, expert testimony, drafts and Consulting assignments

For in everything, it is no easy task to find the middle . . .Aristotle
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WORK/FAMILY POLICY  

The Family , Gender and Tenure Project

Project Director, Charmaine Yoest, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Bankard Fund at the University of Virginia

   

Paid Parental Leave In Academia Is Rare, U.Va. Study Shows January 29, 2004 -- University of Virginia researchers today released preliminary results of a nationwide study of parental leave policies that found fewer than one-fifth of all institutions of higher education provide parental leave beyond maternity leave for new parents.

   
Institutional results of the nationwide study for the Family, Gender and Tenure Project

used with permission United Features Syndicate

Presentation to Claremont McKenna College

Empowering Shakespeare's Sister, February, 2004, Claremont, California (PowerPoint)
   
Empowering Shakespeare’s Sister: Parental Leave and the Level Playing Field
Delivered at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
 

Paid Parental Leave

Poster Presentation at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
 
What If . . . Parenthood wasn’t a Professional Peril on the Tenure Track?
Must Academics Parent and Perish?
Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, November 7-9, 2002, Dallas, Texas. Support for this research was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Bankard Fund of the University of Virginia.
 
Paid Parental Leave: Leveling the Playing Field
or Constructing a Cul de Sac?
As a public policy, paid leave is frequently cited as a solution to the work and family challenges faced by women professionals. But despite the widespread interest in the policy, there has been little analysis of its effectiveness, particularly in the American context.
TAX POLICY  
 
Income Splitting
A solution to the marriage penalty?
 
CHILD CARE  
 
Presented research at a Policy Forum "Child Care: Facts, Rhetoric, and Real Solutions."

 

Audio of Charmaine Yoest and William Gormley at Child Care presentation. RealPlayer required

 
FAMILY AND WOMEN'S ISSUES  
 
Discussion Leader, "Why Women: Is There a Uniquely Feminine Voice That Needs to Be Heard in the Public Arena?" Core Connections Conference.
 

 

"Race and Social Change in America With Juan Williams and Charmaine Yoest. The Symposium has been designed to stimulate serious-thinking about current issues, and to provide a forum in which the local community, students, and faculty may both be informed by and dialogue with experts."

 
EXPERT TESTIMONY
 

Senate Testimony, Child Care Symposium

"Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and Families met to discuss certain child care and parenting issues, receiving testimony from Charmaine Yoest."

 

"Senate Committee met to examine the need to continue funding Title X and other Federal health programs that benefit women after receiving testimony from Charmaine Yoest. "

 

House of Representatives Testimony, Women's Health Issues

"Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine the need to continue funding Title X and other Federal health programs that benefit women after receiving testimony from Charmaine Yoest." U.S. Congress, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, The Reauthorization of Title X of the Public Health Service Act, (testimony submitted by Charmaine Yoest ), 102nd Congress, 2nd session, March 19, 1991, p. 2.

 
Delivered testimony before the New Jersey State Senate.
 
Delivered testimony before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
 
Delivered testimony before the Commonwealth of Virginia School Board.
 
"America's Family Crisis" Delivered at the New Congress Orientation Conference, December 12, 1992.
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DRAFTS  
 
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON AND EXECUTIVE POWER: The Bricks and Mortar of the Great Society
 
Foundations of the American Presidency:
From Character to Charisma . . . and Cherry Trees to Big Macs
   
 

SELECTED CONSULTING ASSIGNMENTS  
 
Advise clients on what women want -- at home, at work, with family and with co-workers.
 
Expert Reviewer for "WOMEN'S EARNINGS: Work Patterns Partially Explain Difference between Men's and Woman's Earnings" Report to Congressional Requesters United States General Accounting Office GAO October 2003 WOMEN'S EARNINGS Work Patterns Partially Explain ...http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0435.pdf - 652.5KB - GAO Reports
 
Grant Reader, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, various projects.
 
Served on Virginia's Reading and Literacy Partnership, funded with a $15,000,000 competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the Reading Excellence Act.
 
Advised the State of South Carolina on welfare reform legislation through The Family Independence Act, South Carolina Works, and Putting Families First Foundation.

 
 

 

Award winning research recognized in 2002.

 
 
Project on Children Advisory Board, Pacific Research Institute, 1999
   
Retained as a writer for speeches, op-eds, book reviews and articles.
Confidential Clients

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