National Press Club Forum to Release Findings of Presidential Candidate Survey on Work/Family Issues on Jan. 13

1/9/2004

From: Nancy Segal for Take Care Net, 301-270-3593 or nancy.segal2@verizon.net

News Advisory:

What: National Press Club Forum will release the findings of a Presidential candidate survey on work/family issues on Jan. 13.

Issues Addressed:

The presidential candidates' positions on early education and childcare, family and medical leave, paid and family-provided child and elder care, and work-family balance.

Personal testimony, research and polls all underscore the importance of work-family issues to American voters. Where do the presidential candidates stand? Take Care Net will release the results of its candidate survey.

When:

Jan. 13, 2004, 12-2 p.m.

Where:

National Press Club, 529 14th Street, N.W., 13th Floor, Washington, D.C. (Two blocks from Metro Center)

Moderator:

-- Kay Maxwell, president of the League of Women Voters (invited)

Speakers:

-- Ellen Bravo, executive director of 9to5, survey author, and member of Take Care Net Steering Committee

-- Janine Bacquie, Early Childhood coordinator, Montgomery County, Maryland

-- Kevin Knussman, former Maryland state trooper who successfully sued the state of Maryland after being denied leave to care for wife and newborn

-- Eileen Appelbaum, professor and director of the Center for Women and Work, Rutgers University, and member of Take Care Net Steering Committee

-- Celinda Lake, pollster

This event is sponsored by the Take Care Net and American University's Women & Politics Institute