Battle of Ideas 2013 | speaker

Nancy McDermott is an independent researcher with a special interest in the family, parenting, science and the public-private spheres. She writes regularly on women and the family for spiked. She is a non-academic affiliate of the CPCS and a former head and an advisor to Park Slope Parents.

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