"The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything"
"The Shriver Report" combines the work of economists and academics to analyze how women's changing roles are affecting major social institutions, particularing the U.S. labor market, government, business, media and faith. For the first time in our nation’s history, women are nearly half of all U.S. workers and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families. This is a dramatic shift from just a generation ago – in 1967 women made up only one-third of all workers – and a permanent cultural change, unlike more temporary spikes in female employment, such as when men went to war. The project's Web site offers a number of recent resources on women's status, including employment, pay discrimination and parental leave.
On Monday, October 19, 2009, the Center for American Progress will launch the project with a conference featuring keynote speakers Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT). The conference will convene the authors of the report, policymakers, policy analysts, state and local advocates to discuss and examine the ideas that have been raised by the report, which is the first comprehensive analysis of women's economic status since 1963.
The report is part of a project led by Maria Shriver Shriver -- the first lady of California and a former NBC News correspondent -- and the Center for American Progress, in partnership with Hewlett Packard, the Rockefeller Foundation and the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. NBC plans to highlight the project throughout the week, with a focus on the status of women in the post-recession economy.
