Title: Announcing: "After Birth: Policies for Healthy Women, Families and Workplaces"

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Section/SPIG: Maternal and Child Health

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What: An exciting one-day conference that will examine the critical issues of women's employment after childbirth, the role of family and medical leave policies and families' division of household labor. Nationally recognized speakers, including Susan Maushart, PhD, author of "The Mask of Motherhood:How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It Doesn't," are included on the agenda.

Who: The conference is designed to bring together university faculty, staff and students, activists, policy makers, health care professionals, employers and community members.

When: Friday, Oct. 1, 2004; 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Where: University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Cowles Auditorium, 301 19th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55455.

Visit <www.hhh.umn.edu/afterbirth/> to learn more and to register online.