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WEBINAR: Helping Women Return to the Workforce, with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)

  • April 27, 2021
  • Veronica Goodman

On Tuesday, April 27th, PPI hosted a webinar with special guest Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on policies to help women return to the workforce following the devastating effect of the pandemic on women’s labor force participation. Our panel included policy experts on labor, child care, and gender equity.

Keynote Speaker:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)

Moderator:

Veronica Goodman, Social Policy Director, Progressive Policy Institute

Panel:

Chandra Childers, Study Director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Elliot Haspel, Author of Crawling Behind: America’s Child Care Crisis and How to Fix It
Rhonda V. Sharpe, founder & president, Women’s Institute for Science, Equity, and Race

Watch the event here. 

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