2005-06 IPR Distinguished Public Policy Lecture

“The Earnings Gap and Women's Long-Term Economic Security”

by Dr. Heidi Hartmann
President, Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
McCormick Tribune Forum (map)
1870 Campus Dr., Evanston Campus

The event is free of charge and open to the public.

Heidi Hartmann is president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), a scientific research organization in Washington, D.C. that she founded in 1987 to meet the need for women-centered, policy-oriented research. Widely published, she is co-author of numerous reports, including "Still A Man’s Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap" (IWPR Report, 2004). Previously, Hartmann was on the faculty of Rutgers University and the New School for Social Research and worked at the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences. In 1994, she received a MacArthur Fellowship Award for her work in the field of women and economics. Hartmann is vice chair of the National Council of Women’s Organizations and a research professor at The George Washington University.

The Institute for Policy Research (IPR) is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute founded in 1968 at Northwestern University. Its mission is to stimulate and support excellent social science research on significant public policy issues and to disseminate the findings widely to students, scholars, policymakers, and the public at large.

Please contact Ellen Whittingham at 847-491-8704 or e-mail her at
h-whittingham@northwestern.edu for more information about the lecture.