Culture & Identity

Sexism still permeates culture through the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes as well as misogynistic, negative and violent imagery in mass media. Perceptions of identity and gender roles are influenced, reflected and reinforced through myths, narratives and stories. Cultural cues about appropriate gender roles can have a negative and harmful impact by, for example, defining strength and rationalism as ”masculine” and submissiveness and emotionalism as ”feminine.” NCRW and its members are promoting awareness through research and critical analysis that uncover the tensions and assumptions involved in identity and gender roles.

"Of Words and Wounds.The Thin Evidence of Asylum Seekers."

Submitted by jmumbey on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 3:52pm
Member Organization: 
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Date/Time: 
03/02/2010

Pembroke Seminar Research Lecture

Didier Fassin
James D. Wolfensohn Professor
School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study

Location: Pembroke Hall, Room 305

*Reception immediately following

 

 

 

 

Gender is a Hot Topic in Asia Too

Submitted by afiorino on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 1:07pm

Asia is probably the region of the world that is both furthest ahead and farthest behind on the gender issue. In Singapore, many women are in management, while in Japan, less than 10% of management positions are held by women. Yet in both locations, the issue of gender is emerging as a key business lever.
 

URL: 
http://www.20-first.com/816-0-hot-topic-in-asia-too.html

Nationwide Study Finds That Teenage Girls Have Mixed Feelings About the Fashion Industry

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 12:19pm
Member Organization: 
Girl Scouts of the USA

February 10, 2010

 

 

Muslims Join U.S. Girl Scouts

Submitted by jmumbey on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 12:00pm

 

"It appears as though the U.S. might live up to its 'melting pot' moniker, as many Muslim girls have joined the American Girl Scouts. Priya David reports from Minnesota." 
 
- From CBS
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Member Organization: 
Girl Scouts of the USA

DIFFICULT DIALOGUES II

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 3:33pm
Member Organization: 
National Women's Studies Association
Date/Time: 
11/11/2010 - 11/14/2010

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Pink Magazine: Where career women connect, express, learn and support one another

Submitted by afiorino on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 6:45pm

Throughout your life pink has been symbolic. Since the day you were born and a pink cap was placed upon your head, the color partly defined who you were and who you felt you could or could not become. At times pink was confining, girlish, degrading, liberating or all of these.

But today a growing number of women who are at, or heading for the top, are comfortable with their own pinkness-the color, the attitude, and the opportunity it represents. They are embracing their femininity along with their strength, their compassion and resilience, power and passion.
 

URL: 
http://www.pinkmagazine.com/index.html

Activists Who Yearn For Art That Transforms: Parallels in the Black Arts and Feminist Art Movements in the United States

Submitted by jmumbey on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 5:35pm
Member Organization: 
Barnard Center for Research on Women
Date/Time: 
04/13/2010

 

Through this offering of comparative cultural and intellectual history, Professor Collins exposes links between the Black Arts Movement and the Feminist Art Movement in the United States to address a critical question that is too often tackled without seeing these movements as central: How did postwar cultural workers deeply immersed in sociopolitical movements in the United States see their role and work?

Girls’ Education in the 21st Century: Gender Equality, Empowerment, and Economic Growth

Submitted by afiorino on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 5:28pm

Much has been done to increase gender equality in education over the past 15 years. National governments and the international community have followed through on promises made in various international forums to increase investments in girls’ education. Overall female enrollment at the primary level in low-income countries has accordingly grown from 87 percent in 1990 to 94 percent in 2004, considerably shrinking the gender gap. This progress is the result of recognition of centrality of girls’ education in development and the overall progress made under the Education for All (EFA) agenda.
 

URL: 
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EDUCATION/Resources/278200-1099079877269/547664-1099080014368/DID_Girls_edu.pdf

Quiet Revolutions: Postcolonial Women's Writings and Structures of Solidarity

Submitted by jmumbey on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 5:22pm
Member Organization: 
Barnard Center for Research on Women
Date/Time: 
02/16/2010

Alison Donnell

This talk offers a new reading of postcolonial women's writings. The conventional model since the 1980s has been to emphasize issues of silence and invisibility, the desire for voice and narrative space, and self-representation as a form of empowerment and transformation. What is often eclipsed as a result is a valuable political ethic based on coalition and solidarity with oppressed and marginalized figures.

The Global Gender Gap Report, 2008

Submitted by afiorino on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 4:43pm

Through the Global Gender Gap Reports for the past three years, the World Economic Forum has been providing a framework for quantifying the magnitute of gender-based disparities, tracking their progress over time and designing effective measures reducing them. In addition, in 2008, the Global Gender Parity Group and Regional Gender Parity Groups were launched in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

URL: 
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/report2008.pdf
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