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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches
Pages 243-246

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... MAXINE BACA-ZINN is professor and senior associate in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. She is a former president of the Western Social Science Association; currently, she serves on the Committee for Public Policy Research on Contemporary Hispanic Issues of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research and the Social Science Research Council and on the board of directors of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
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From page 244...
... She served as chair of the faculty group that developed USC's curriculum for the specialization in social work practice with families and children. In addition to membership in the National Association of Black Social Workers, the National Association of Social Workers, and the Council on Social Work Education, she currently serves as a member of the editorial board of Child Welfare, the journal of the Child Welfare League of America.
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From page 245...
... She is former president of the Midwest Economic Association, was chair of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics, and is a member of the American Economic Association's Committee on Economic Education and Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. Within the broad field of the economic status of women, she has focused particularly on the standing of women in academia, the family as an economic unit, and international comparisons in the position of women.
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... Previously she was a visiting professor at the law schools of the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University; an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, Inc., a nonprofit, public interest law firm in San Francisco that she cofounded in 1974; clinical instructor at Stanford Law School; and a partner at Davis, Dunlap & Williams, a San Francisco law firm specializing in sex discrimination litigation. She has published numerous works focusing on sex discrimination in the workplace and is presently working on a casebook entitled Sex Discrimination: Causes and Remedies.
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