Ariane Hegewisch Study Director Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR)

Ariane Hegewisch is a study director, working on workplace discrimination and work life balance, at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. She is a specialist in comparative human resource management, with a focus on policies and legislative approaches to facilitate greater work life reconciliation and gender equality in higher income economies. Prior to coming to the USA, she taught comparative European human resource management at Cranfield School of Management in the UK and worked as a policy advisor on gender and employment in local government in the UK. She is German and holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MPhil in Development Studies from the IDS, Sussex. She is also an international associate of the Center for WorkLife Law, U.C Hastings.

center publications

• Measures that Affect the Quality of Part-Time or Reduced-Hour Work (April 2009).
• Measures that Govern Rights to Alternative Work Arrangements (August 2008).

research

Completed

• Cross-National Policy Comparisons.