Center for Women and Work

Contact

50 Labor Center Way
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Ph. (732) 932-4614
Fx. (732) 932-1254
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cww/
cww@rci.rutgers.edu


The Center for Women and Work (CWW) addresses the needs of working women by studying public policies in the field; conducting, fostering and disseminating research on areas of concern; and sponsoring educational and skills development programs for working women, policy makers, corporate leaders, students, and community organizations. The Center's primary goal is to forge links and dialogue between researchers who study women and workplace issues and decision-makers in corporations, government, labor, and community organizations. The Center has a tradition of working with leading corporations on public programs. The goal is to improve the situation of working women by creating a dialogue that combines research findings with practical experiences. The Center is a member of the consortium of women's programs at Rutgers University.

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Principal Staff

Eileen Appelbaum, Co-Director
E-mail: eappelba@rci.rutgers.edu

Patricia A. Roos, Co-Director, Center for Women and Work
Ph. (732) 445-0974
E-mail: roos@rutgers.edu

Terri Boyer, Ed.D., Executive Director and Director, Education and Workforce Development Research
Ph. (732) 932-5473
E-mail: terri.boyer@rutgers.edu

Connie A. Ellis, Corporate Programs Director
Ph. (732) 932-2030
E-mail: ellisc@rci.rutgers.edu

Suzanne C. Eng, Program Coordinator, Education and Career Development Programs
Ph. (732) 932-5472
E-mail: sceng@rci.rutgers.edu

Mary Gatta, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Gender and Workforce Policy
Ph. (732) 932-0051
E-mail: gatta@rci.rutgers.edu

Glenda Gracia-Rivera, Associate Director of Education & Career Development Research & Programs
Nontraditional Career Resource Center
Ph. (732) 932-0054
E-mail: ggrivera@rci.rutgers.edu

Linda Houser, Policy Analyst Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education
Ph. (732) 932-4614
E-mail: lhouser@rci.rutgers.edu

Heather A. McKay, Director, Sloan Center on Innovative Training and Workforce Development
Ph. (732) 932-0052
E-mail: hmckay@rci.rutgers.edu

Karen White, Director of the Work and Family Programs
Ph. (732) 932-0081
E-mail: kswhite@rci.rutgers.edu

Carla M. LoMeo, Administrative Assistant
Ph. (732) 932-4614
E-mail: clomeo@smlr.rutgers.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Access & Disparities, Advancing Women's Leadership, Awareness & Education, Barriers & Opportunities, Corporations

Member Experts:


Projects & Campaigns

Corporations and Women
Leadership and Leadership Development

Helping Corporate Women to Achieve their Leadership Goals. There will be two initiatives for this project: 1) The Senior Leadership Program for Professional Women, an annual eight-month program for women preparing to move to upper levels of leadership within their organizations and 2) Corporate Leadership Forums which will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss critical issues facing corporate women.

Research Project on "Minority Women in the Executive Suite: A Research Initiative for Minority Women's Leadership." The project, under the direction of Professor dt ogilvie, faculty fellow, will examine successful multicultural women who have attained senior corporate leadership positions to increase understanding of successful leadership strategies for multicultural women.

WINGS (Women Investing in and Guiding Students) LINK is a college to career program for undergraduate female students to learn about the mentoring process before they enter the workforce.

 

Corporations and Women
Unions

Annual Series of All-Day Public Programs for Union Women. This annual series focuses on workplace violence, stress in the workplace, and sexual harassment in the workplace, among other topics.

Education & Employment (Career Development)

Rutgers Databank on Working Women. This database provides centralized, information on the status of working women in New Jersey and the nation, and collects and posts individual and aggregate data as it becomes available. This data is available on the internet, and can be accessed at http://www.cww.rutgers.edu. Additional data on professional women in the state and the nation is being collected and will be posted when completed.

The Sloan Center on Innovative Training and Workforce Development (ITWD), housed at Rutgers University, is dedicated to assisting State, County, and City Government Departments and Workforce Investment Boards institutionalize technologically-based flexible education and training alternatives, especially online learning opportunities,  for non-college educated workers throughout the nation.

The Education and Career Development components of CWW focus on the foundations that lead to gender equity in a high-skill economy, including the development and implementation of policy in our education and workforce systems.

We also offer assessment and technical assistance services, including the Nontraditional Career Resource Center, a nationally-recognized program funded by the New Jersey Department of Education that provides research and resources on gender equity and career development.   Since 2003, the NCRC has served over 4000 students in over 400 NJ school districts, as well as providing the latest in research and information to over 3000 educators, parents, and policy makers by way of presentations, consultations, in-services, and participation in state advisory committees, in the attempt to effect core systemic changes. 
 
Building on the success of our recent report to the New Jersey State Employment and Training Commission Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education, Legal Talent at the Crossroads, we have begun a long-term initiative on Women in the Law.   We are building three components to continue our work: a forum for research dissemination and training, action-research, and a proposed training program for senior-level women lawyers.  For more information about this initiative and to contribute your support, contact us as listed below.
 
We also seek to bring together major stakeholders of gender equity in a high-skill economy.  A key example of this is the Women in the Science and Tech Workforce Collaborative, a group of representatives from industry, government, education and community organizations with an interest in the representation and advancement of women and girls in the science and technology workforce for the tri-state region.
Our education and career development initiatives also work with other local, state and national organizations through funded research projects, technical assistance to schools, industries, and organizations, and collaborations with government and policy-makers.

Reports & Resources

Legal Talent at the Crossroads: Why New Jersey Women Lawyers Leave Their Law Firms, and Why They Choose to Stay, 2009 report >> read full Adobe PDF

New Jersey's Women in Science and Technology 2008 Summit Report >> read full report Adobe PDF 

New Jersey Women Count (1994), a compilation of social indicators regarding the status of women in New Jersey.

Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership, ed. Professor Sue Cobble (1993).

"The Role of Family Status in Explaining Race Differences in Access to Hierarchical Authority Structures among Women," CWW Working Paper, Ryan A. Smith and dt ogilvie (1990-1991).