University of Delaware
Office of Public Relations
UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 22, March 6


                     Faith Wohl to speak March 10
     Faith A. Wohl, locally known for her pioneering
initiatives to help employees balance their work and family
life at the DuPont Co. and for her role in creating the
Child-Care Connection, will present a free, public
presentation on "Work, Women and Family: Challenges for the
Next Millennium" at 3:30 p.m., Monday, March 10, in the
Multipurpose Room of the Trabant University Center.
     Now director of the U.S. General Services
Administration's Office of Workplace Initiatives, Wohl will
focus in her talk on what a "family-friendly" workplace
looks like, the effects of new governmental and workplace
policies and initiatives on women's career advancement and
the status of such initiatives as elder care, flex time,
telecommuting and child care, as well as other related
work/family issues.
     In addition, Wohl designs new work/family initiatives
and volunteer and community outreach programs for GSA
employees, and she plays a critical role in incorporating
the recommendations made by Vice President Al Gore's
National Performance Review on how to make the government
more family-friendly.
     Wohl became director of the newly created Office of
Workplace Initiatives in 1994. Previously, she had been with
the DuPont Co. for more than 20 years, serving in successive
management roles as director of corporate communications,
corporate affairs and community affairs and public affairs
manager for textile fibers and employee relations
departments.
     Recognized for her accomplishments in family and
workplace issues by a number of national and community
organizations, Wohl was a recipient in 1994 of the
prestigious national Lewis Hine Award from the National
Child Labor Committee, for her work in developing quality
child care programs.
     Before and after her campus talk, resource tables with
representatives from University and community organizations
dealing with women's and work/family issues will be open,
and refreshments will be served.
     Wohl's talk is sponsored by the Career Services Center,
Office of Women's Affairs and Women's Studies
Interdisciplinary Program.
     For more information, call 831-1232 or 831-8063.
                                                -Beth Thomas