May 3, 2012: Bernard Center president & CEO Michelle D. Bernard joins Current TV’s The War Room with Jennifer Granholm to discuss the GOP’s war on women and attack on personal liberties, endorsements of Governor Romney, recent swing state polls, the importance of Virginia this presidential election cycle, and state support for a “freedom to marry” […]
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Michelle D. Bernard at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan: Action-Based Learning to Action-Based Living
May 2, 2012: Michelle D. Bernard, president & CEO of the Bernard Center, opinion maker, and lawyer tells Ross graduates metrics for success in life at Spring Commencement. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — She dropped the Accounting for Lawyers class after one day and was urged not to take any more economics courses as an undergraduate. Not […]
Hardball with Chris Matthews: Democrats and Republicans Over Who’s Waging What War
April 13, 2012: Michelle D. Bernard, president & CEO of the Bernard Center and Newsweek’s Michelle Goldberg join guest host Michael Smerconish to discuss the “mommy wars,” Ann Romney, and presidential politics.
The Daily Run Down with Chuck Todd: The Conversation about Women in Politics
The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut, Michelle D. Bernard, president of the Bernard Center for Women, Politics & Public Policy, and former Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., join The Daily Rundown’s Chuck Todd to discuss women in politics and how the conversation seems to have a double standard as compared to men entering politics.
The War Room with Jennifer Granholm: Did Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Sign Laws that Send the Message that Women’s Lives Don’t Matter?
War Room host Jennifer Granholm asks how the GOP can continue to deny that a war on women exists. Michelle D. Bernard, president & CEO of the Bernard Center states: “Women are not demanding equal outcomes, but women demand equal opportunity.” Wisconsin’s legislation is “another message that seems to say women’s lives don’t matter.”
Women’s History Month “The Struggle Continues”
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War On Women
About 430 contraceptive-related bills have surfaced in the last two months- but Democrats think they’re on the right side of this issue. MSNBC’s Richard Lui, Alex Wagner Michelle Bernard and Traci McMillan talk about the fight to protect women’s rights.
Business, Politics, and the Economy
By Dean Alison Davis-Blake, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan As we enter the final stretch leading into the 2012 presidential election, the debate rages on over who has the best strategy to fix the U.S. economy. Depending on who’s speaking, a candidate’s business expertise can be presented as an obvious strength or key […]
Will ‘Swing-State Singles’ Decide the Presidential Election?
From The Daily Circuit, Minnesota Public Radio If you are single and planning to vote in the upcoming presidential election, you may be one of the most influential and sought-after voters of 2012. We’re taking a look at “swing-state singles” and their influence. This year there are 100 million unmarried adults eligible to vote and […]
Welcome to The Bernard Center
The Bernard Center for Women, Politics & Public Policy is a research and educational institution—a think tank— whose mission is to change the terms of the nation’s most critical domestic and foreign policy debates and challenge the media to discuss those issues in order to improve the socioeconomic status of women, ethnic and religious minorities; […]