Skanska Virtual Lunch & Learn: The Pandemic’s Impact on Employment and Empowering Women to Re-Enter the Workforce

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BWiC is pleased to welcome featured speaker Evelyn Murphy, President, The WAGE Project, Inc. for a Skanska sponsored Lunch & Learn. Please join us as she covers these critical topics facing professional women in all industries. 







How COVID effected the workforce, especially for women

•             Attrition due to pressure of family priorities – downshifting of careers
o             Taking care of a loved one (parents, grandparents, etc.)
o             Children being homeschooled
o             Children who are not yet school aged
o             Husband/wife/partner
•             Returning to work and negotiating competitively to make it work for you/your family needs
o             Work from home, part time, less travel, etc.
o             Women are feeling more pressure at work than men
             Companies need to do more to address this and realign norms and expectations
•             Loss of connectivity, bonding
•             Less opportunity for growth
•             Stress at home and at work
•             Unpaid care – shopping, cooking, cleaning, taking care of kids or parents in the household
 

Evelyn Murphy is President of The WAGE Project, Inc., a national organization to end wage discrimination against working women, and author of Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It, published by Simon & Schuster in October 2005.  She is Chair of the Board of Directors of SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company and a Director of Citizens Energy Corporation.

Evelyn Murphy earned a BA from Duke University in mathematics; a MA in economics from Columbia University; and a PhD in economics from Duke University.

In the late 1970s, she served as Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs with responsibility for the state's environmental policy and line management of 5,000 employees. Her leadership in opposing offshore oil and gas exploration in the fishing grounds of the Georges Bank and initiating state heritage parks earned her national recognition. After an unsuccessful campaign for Lt Governor in 1982, she was appointed the state's Secretary of Economic Affairs from 1983-1985, with responsibility for the state's economic policies including her initiative to develop businesses engaged in biotechnology, computer technology, marine sciences, polymers, and photovoltaics; and overseeing unemployment compensation and retraining programs.

In 1986, Evelyn Murphy was elected Lt. Governor and became the first woman in the state's 200 year history to hold constitutional office. Prior to that, despite the state's progressive image, no woman had ever been elected Governor, Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor, or US Senator in Massachusetts.

After campaigning for Governor in 1990, Evelyn Murphy became Managing Director of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer, a New England law firm. While managing the law firm, she became a corporate director of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts; and Shawmut National Banks of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, Fleet National Bank, Fleet Mortgage Company, and Fleet Credit Card Corporation. Blue Cross recruited her to the position of Executive Vice President to manage all federal and state, media and civic relations. While Executive Vice President, she founded and became President of the health insurer's HealthCare Policy Institute.

In her civic role, she is Honorary Chair of the Lost Coin Women's Fund, Inc., and on the Advisory Board of Rosie’s Place, a homeless women's shelter; the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective; the Center for Women and Work at UMass Lowell; the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, UMass Boston.

Dr. Murphy is a member of the International Women's Forum and the Boston Club; for eight years, she co-chaired the annual fundraiser for Rosie's Place. She is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees and over one hundred national, state, and local awards.

In her spare time, she has run the Boston Marathon many times and can be seen in the bleachers of Fenway Park cheering for the Boston Red Sox.

We are offering a virtual option for this program. If you would like to attend by Zoom please first register and then send an email to: Lisa Frisbie frisbie@agcmass.org

ATTENDEES:

 

Lisa	Frisbie	AGC MA
Debra	Caminiti	Caminiti Consulting Co., Inc.
Briana	Colantonio	Colantonio, Inc.
Jennifer	Smith	G. Greene Construction Co., Inc.
Wendy	Venoit	Hinckley Allen
Susan	Gray	Shawmut Design and Construction
Danielle	O'Connell	Skanska USA Building Inc.
Victoria	Clifford	Skanska USA Building Inc.
Kelly	Gillen	Turner Construction

Skanska
Bulman, Alison
Mollica, Valerie
Benitez, Pedro
Lee, Anna
Chouinard, Keith
OConnell, Danielle
Black, Deirdre
McKien, Dana
Scully, Mary
Modliszewski, Kara
Neal, Lisa
Nos, Iryna
Belizaire, Kelly
Haney, Stephen
Mirabito, Mitchell
Moll, Anna
Desmond, Carolyn
Siringo, Danielle
Wilson, Kathlyn
Abanes, Arlyn
Ventura, Marisa
Hirt, Kimberly
Stefanelli, Anthony
Zaporta, Marissa
Feldsott, Allison
Teixeira, Jennifer
Campos, Erika
Nauta, Ashlee
Hackney, Sveta
Leptich, Tom
Miller, Alexandrea
Albert, Steve
Inoni, Wassa
Jones, Erin
Hendrix, Rachel
Adams, Ayesha
Kim, Hannah
Alvarez, Sabrina
Hunt, Tracy
Handler, Russ
Martinez, Jamila
Plambeck, Kaisha
Ahlf, Lacey
Forde, Ashlee
Miller, Jessica
Eng, Cynthia
Berlinski, Daniel
DeMartino, Russell
Gunderson, Peter
Copeland, Amanda
Karpowicz, Cynthia
Clifford, Victoria