Joan C. Williams

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Joan C Williams (2016)

Joan C. Williams (born 1952 ) is an American lawyer and gender researcher.

Life

Joan C. Williams comes from the wealthy upper class and grew up in Princeton , New Jersey . She graduated from Yale University (BA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA), and received a JD from Harvard Law School . She married James X. Dempsey, who is also a lawyer, and they have daughter Rachel Dempsey. Her father-in-law was a foreman and Williams learned about the living conditions of the American white working class.

Williams is the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law in San Francisco . She teaches law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law . She writes for Harvard Business Review , Huffington Post, and Psychology Today . Williams conducts research on the working conditions of women, and her work has received numerous awards.

In 2016, following Donald Trump's election victory, Williams published an essay in the Harvard Business Review on why members of the white working class (WWC) voted for Trump, the article was viewed 3.2 million times. Williams stressed that the Democratic politicians failed to respect the dignity of these people.

Fonts (selection)

  • White working class . Harvard Business Review Press, 2017
  • Joan C. Williams: What So Many People Don't Get About the US Working Class . Harvard Business Review , November 10, 2016
  • White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America . Boston Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press, 2017
  • with Rachel Dempsey: What works for women at work: four patterns working women need to know . New York: New York University Press, 2014
  • The flexibility stigma , in: Journal of Social Issues , 2013, 2, pp. 209-405
  • Reshaping the work-family debate: why men and class matter . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010
  • with Cynthia Thomas Calvert: Solving the part-time puzzle: the law firm's guide to balanced hours . Washington, DC: National Association for Law Placement, 2004
  • Unbending gender: why family and work conflict and what to do about it . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Simon Kuper : The despair of the white working class . Interview, in: Financial Times , May 13, 2017, S. L & A1, S. L & A17
  2. ↑ Amy Chozick: Hillary Clinton Calls Many Trump Backers 'Deplorables,' and GOP Pounces , in: The New York Times , September 10, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Joan C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and gender researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1952