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APPENDIX B
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members and Staff
ALICE STONE ILCHMAN is president of Sarah Lawrence College. Previously, she was
assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs and associate director of the
U. S. International Communication Agency. Prior to her government service, she was dean
of WellesTey College and a founder of the Wellesley College Center on the Research of
Women. Ilchman has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. from the London
School of Economics. Her scholarly interests include the economics of education and political
and economic development in South Asia. She is chair of the pane! on parents and work of
the Economic Policy Council at the UN Association, a member of the Smithsonian Council,
and on the board of directors of the Markle Foundation.
CECILIA PRECL\DO BURCIAGA is associate dean for graduate studies and research at
Stanford University. She served previously as assistant provost and also as assistant to the
president and adviser to the provost for Chicano affairs. She serves a wide variety of
organizations concerned with higher education, the status of women, and the interests of
minorities. For example, she has served as a commissioner ofthe California State Commission
on Civil Rights, as cochair of the National Network of Hispanic Women, as a commissioner
with the Ford Foundation Stucly on the Status of Minorities in Higher Education, and as
a member of the board of trustees of the Educational Testing Service. She has also consulted
for a wide variety of agencies and foundations, as well as taught and conducted research in
the field of education. She has a B.A. from California State University at Fullerton and an
M.A. in sociology and policy studies from the University of California.
CYNTHIA FUCHS EPSTEIN is professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York and a resident scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. She has
been codirector of a National Institute of Mental Health training grant on the sociology and
economics of women and work at the Graduate Center and was codirector of the program
in sex roles and social change at Columbia University. She has a B.A. in political science
from Antioch College, an M.A. Tom the New School for Social Research, and a Ph.D. in
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sociology from Columbia University. She is a member of the American Sociological Asso-
ciation and the Eastern Sociological Society (serving as president in 19841. She was a White
House appointee to the Committee on the Economic Roles of Women, advising the Council
of Economic Advisers. Her research and writing have centered on women in the professions,
business, and politics; on the salience of gender in the maintenance of the social order; and
on the impact of social change on men and women in the workplace.
HEIDI I. HARTMANN is study director of both the Committee on Women s Employment
and Related Social Issues and the Panel on Technology and Women's Employment at the
National Research Council. She previously served as associate executive director of the
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education and as research associate to
the Committee on Occupational Classification and Analysis. In that capacity she coedited
(with Donalc:l I. Treiman) the committee's final report on comparable worth. Her research
has concentrated on employment issues related to women and minorities, particularly dis-
crimination and internal labor markets, and on political economy and feminist theory. She
is the author of several articles on women's economic status; she lectures frequently on that
and other topics and has testified in congressional hearings on comparable worth. She has
a B.A. from Swarthmore College and M.Ph. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University, all
in economics.
LAWRENCE M. KAHN is professor of economics and labor and industrial relations at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research has encompassed the economics of
trade unionism, job search, unemployment and turnover, statistical issues in assessing the
extent of labor market discrimination by employers, and issues relating to age discrimination.
He received a B. S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a Ph. D. in economics
from the University of California, Berkeley.
GENE E. KOFKE was director of human resources at American Telephone and Telegraph
Company in New York. After a long managerial career in both line and staff roles in an
operating subsidiary, he has since 1974 had corporate responsibilities in many major areas
of human resources, including management training and development; equal employment
and affirmative action; planning and policies; and employee attitudes, motivation, and quality
of work life. Most recently he was instrumental in sponsoring nationwide union-management
worker participation efforts. He retired from AT&T on December 1, 1984, and is now an
independent personnel consultant.
ROBERT E. KRAUT is a social psychologist on the technical staff at Bell Communications
Research and an adjunct faculty member in the department of psychology at Princeton
University. He has previously held positions at Bell Laboratories, Cornell University, and
the University of Pennsylvania. His research has been on the way people judge themselves
and others, on interpersonal interaction, and on the social impact of new information tech-
nologies. He has a B.A. from Lehigh University and a Ph.D. Tom Yale University.
JEAN BEER MILLER is clinical professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of
Medicine, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, and scholar-in-residence at the Stone
Center for Developmental Services and Studies at Wellesley College. She has been a lecturer
at the London School of Economics at the University of London and an associate at Tavistock
Institute and Clinic in London. A psychoanalyst, she is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College
and has an M. D. from Columbia University Me(lical School. Her professional activities have
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included membership on the board of trustees of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis,
the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and the Elizabeth Stone House; she was principal
faculty of the NIMH StaffCollege course on mental health needs of women. Her publications
include books on the psychology of women and numerous professional papers.
ELEANOR HOLLIES NORTON is a professor of law at Georgetown University School of
Law. She served as the chair of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from
1977 to 1981. Prior to that time she was executive assistant to the mayor of New York City
and chair of the Commission on Human Rights (1910-19761; she server! as the assistant legal
director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1965 to 1970. A constitutional and civil
rights lawyer, she received a B.A. from Antioch College and an M.A. in American studies
and an LL. B. from Yale University. She has written numerous journal articles, coauthored
a legal text on sex discrimination, and received numerous awards and honors, including the
Louise Waterman Wise award.
GARY ORFIELD is professor of political science, public policy, and education at the
University of Chicago. He has held positions at the Brookings Institution, Princeton Uni-
versity, the University of Illinois, the University of Virginia, and the U.S. Civil Rights
Commission. His work deals primarily with minority rights, Congress, education, and urban
policy. He has participated in many civil rights lawsuits and been appointed to advise the
courts hearing school desegregation cases in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and San Francisco.
He has served as a consultant to numerous federal, state, and local agencies on civil rights
issues. He has a B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota and M.A. and Ph. D. degrees
from the University of Chicago.
NAOMI QUINN is associate professor of anthropology at Duke University. Her research
is on cultural models and their role in the organization of knowledge. Eler current work
focuses on Americans' cultural mode} of marriage. She has also taught and written on women's
position cross-culturally and has carried out field research in West Afiica as well as in the
United States. She has a B.A. from Radcliffe College and a Ph. D. from Stanford University,
both in anthropology.
BARBARA F. BE SKIN is a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois. During the
period in which she served as study director for the Committee on Women's Employment
and Relater! Social Issues, she was on leave from the Department of Sociology at Indiana
University. Subsequently she was professor of sociology and women's studies at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. Her research focuses on sex stratification, and she has published
extensively on sex differences in scientists' careers and, more generally, the operation.of
scientific reward systems. She has also investigated statistical methods for assessing dis-
crimination, how the courts use statistical evidence of discrimination, and jury decisions in
sexual assault cases. Recently she has been studying the concomitants of women's entry in
male-dominated occupations. She received B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in sociology
from the University of Washington.
ISABEL V. SAWHIT L is a senior fellow at Me Urban Institute. She previously served as
the Institute's program director for women and family policy (1975-1977) and later as program
director for employment policy (1980-1981~. Between 1977 and 1980, she was director of
the National Commission for Employment Policy an independent agency responsible for
advising the President and Congress on employment and training issues. She has lectured
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and written extensively on such topics as employment, inflation, income transfers, the
changing status of the family, and the role of women in the labor market. She is currently
codirecting a large three-year project to assess the social and economic policies of the Reagan
administration and their implications for the future. She attended Wellesley College and
received B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from New York University.
ROBERT M. SOLOW is institute professor in the Department of Economics at the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1949. He has B.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from Harvard University. He is an economic theorist whose research and experience
have been primarily in macroeconomics. He was senior economist on the Council of Eco-
nomic Advisers in 1961-1962, and a director of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank from 1976
to 1982 (chairman, 1980-19821. He has also worker] on the economics of unemployment ant!
is a member of the boars] of directors of Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation,
which has operated and analyzed federal and state experiments with supported work, youth
employment schemes, and work-welfare linkages. lIe is a member of the National Academy
of Sciences and past president of the American Economic Association and the Econometric
Society.
LOUISE A. TILLY is professor of history and sociology on the graduate faculty of the New
School for Social Research and chair of its Committee on Historical Studies. Previously she
taught at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and at the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She received an A.B. from Douglass College, an M.A.
from Boston University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She is treasurer of
the Social Science Research Council, a member of the Council of the American Historical
Association, and chair of the Pane} on Technology and Women's Employment of the National
Research Council's Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues. Her
current research includes a comparative historical study of the state, class, and the family
in French cities; she is completing a monograph on the labor force and the working class
in late nineteenth century Milan.
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DONALD I. TREIMAN is professor of sociology at the University of California at Los
Angeles. His research interests center on the comparative study of social stratification and
social mobility. He has written extensively on problems of occupational classification and
measurement, including a book analyzing occupational prestige data from 60 countries.
Previously he served as study director of the Committee on Occupational Classification ant!
Analysis at the National Research Council, which produced reports on job evaluation,
comparable worth, and the Dictionary of Occupational Titles; he was also study director of
the Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, which produced
two volumes on the value and usefi'Iness of basic research. He has a B.A. from Reed College
and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago, all in sociology.
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