You want your kids back in school this fall because getting them to learn online last spring while you tried to act professional in work Zoom meetings was a lost cause. You worry that the new COVID-…, Q. You say that during times of crisis, we tend to fall back on inequitable patterns. Why is that the case, and what does that mean for working women?, A., As much as there has been progress around professional women and dual-working families over the past two to three decades, there were still patterns of inequity where more of the “second shift” of…, Q. Do you see those support systems for working families returning?, A., There’s such uncertainty around if, how and when any reliable supports for working parents are coming back, and that’s been nagging me. You could argue that the situation is even more stark right…, Q. What are those unintended consequences?, A., I’m concerned that in the absence of these social systems that support working families, people are going to do a mishmash of their own thing: putting their kids in unregulated child care settings…, Q. Many companies have been able to let employees work from home during the pandemic. Could this signal a larger change in how companies treat working parents?, A., Early on, this was actually a good thing for those of us who were calling for companies to be more understanding of who employees are both inside and outside of the workplace. The severity of what…, Q. When the pandemic finally ends, what will be the lasting effects in the workplace?, A., I’m not one of those people who think, “Oh, the great work from home experiment — we’ll never go back to the office again.” I don’t think that would be a good thing. But one silver lining to this…
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LOWELL- June 18, 2015: The Committee charged with conducting the search for a new Chancellor began its work today saying it would seek to maintain UMass Lowell's"standard of leadership excellence"…, Co Chairman: R. Norman Peters, Member of the UMass Board of Trustees and founding partner of Peters &Sowyrda, Co Chairman: John Pulichino'67, '14 (H), Chairman and CEO, Group III International Ltd., Lisa Abdallah, Chairwoman and associate professor, School of Nursing, UMass Lowell, Lawrence Carpman, Member of the UMass Board of Trustees and Partner, Northwind Strategies, Michael Carter, Chairman and associate professor, Department of Economics, and president of the Faculty Senate, UMass Lowell, Julie Chen, Vice Provost for research, UMass Lowell, James Christopher, UMass Lowell Student Government Association president, Jerry Colella '78, President and CEO, MKS Instruments, Nancy Donahue '13 (H), Community leader and co-founder of Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Robert Giles, Professor of physics and director, Submillimeter Wave Technology Lab, UMass Lowell, Anita Greenwood, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, UMass Lowell, Charlie Hoff '66, '04 (H), Chairman, The Hoff Foundation Inc., John F. Kennedy '70, Former president and CFO, Nova Ventures Corp., Margaret Koziel, Assistant vice provost of clinical and translational research, UMass Medical School, and co-director of the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2), Scott Latham I, nterim Dean of the Manning School of Business, UMass Lowell, Charlotte Mandell, Vice Provost for undergraduate education, UMass Lowell, Stephen McCarthy, Professor of plastics engineering, UMass Lowell, and co-director of the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) and the Center for Irish Partnerships, Carol McDonough, Professor of economics, UMass Lowell, and president of the Massachusetts Society of Professors Lowell, Keith Mitchell, Associate professor of English, UMass Lowell, Amanda Robinson, Student trustee-elect, UMass Lowell, Dana Skinner, UMass Lowell director of athletics, Kumble Subbaswamy, Chancellor, UMass Amherst, Marcellette Williams, UMass senior vice president for academic and student affairs and international relations, Margaret Xifaras, Member of the UMass Board of Trustees and attorney, Law Offices of Lang, Xifaras & Bullard. Contact: Jan Brogan 781-467-9900
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