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LA Catholic university studies how women are being left behind in the economy Los Angeles — April 9, 2024 A year after Ann McElaney-Johnson was appointed president of Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles in 2011, she oversaw the start of an academic research study called "The Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California." The findings were announced. The response was a bit muted. "We weren't known for this work, we put it out there, invited legislators and others in the community, and we didn't really have a big turnout from the public sphere," McElaney-Johnson recalls now. "Within a few years, we had people asking if they could come to our event because it had become an important tool. That's been very heartening." In March, the 13th edition of the study, a 70-page research project framed as "The Cost of Being A Woman: Advancing Solutions for Economic Equity," drew hundreds to a sold-out public event at the Skirball Cultural Center. Speakers included Gayle Goldin, the deputy director for the Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor; Los Angeles County supervisor Holly Mitchell; and authors Eve Rodsky and Pooja Lakshmin. The response reinforced to McElaney-Johnson not only how important it is to annually reevaluate data and process action items, but how the work continues to speak to the principles of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. The community came to Los Angeles in 1903 and founded then-Mount Saint Mary's College almost 100 years ago in 1925. Read more...
Los Angeles — April 9, 2024
A year after Ann McElaney-Johnson was appointed president of Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles in 2011, she oversaw the start of an academic research study called "The Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California."
The findings were announced. The response was a bit muted.
"We weren't known for this work, we put it out there, invited legislators and others in the community, and we didn't really have a big turnout from the public sphere," McElaney-Johnson recalls now. "Within a few years, we had people asking if they could come to our event because it had become an important tool. That's been very heartening."
In March, the 13th edition of the study, a 70-page research project framed as "The Cost of Being A Woman: Advancing Solutions for Economic Equity," drew hundreds to a sold-out public event at the Skirball Cultural Center. Speakers included Gayle Goldin, the deputy director for the Women's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Labor; Los Angeles County supervisor Holly Mitchell; and authors Eve Rodsky and Pooja Lakshmin.
The response reinforced to McElaney-Johnson not only how important it is to annually reevaluate data and process action items, but how the work continues to speak to the principles of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. The community came to Los Angeles in 1903 and founded then-Mount Saint Mary's College almost 100 years ago in 1925.
Read more...