Lecture: The End of Welfare: Married Fatherhood
The Center for Public Policy & Administration welcomes:
Gwendolyn Mink
Charles N. Clark Professor of Women's Studies at Smith College
"The End of Welfare: Married Fatherhood"
For the past five or six years, enormous political energy has been spent on making the father-headed family the focus of mothers' economic security. Current plans for welfare reform will bind the future well-being of mothers and children to the presence of a father in their homes. The income program that once aimed to mitigate single mother poverty now aims to end single motherhood.
Professor Mink earned her B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley (1974) and has a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. Gwendolyn Mink is the author of Welfare's End (1998; rev. ed., 2002), Hostile Environment: The Political Betrayal of Sexually Harassed Women (2000), The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942 (1995) and Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development (1986).
