Awareness & Education

Women's Empowerment Principles: Equality Means Business

Submitted by kpeterson on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 4:33pm

Together, UNIFEM and the UN Global Compact have developed The Women’s Empowerment Principles to provide a set of considerations to help the private sector focus on key elements integral to promoting gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community.

Principles in Brief
1. Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality.
2. Treat all women and men fairly at work – respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination.
3. Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers.
4. Promote education, training and professional development for women.
5. Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women.
6. Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy.
7. Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality.

URL: 
http://www.unifem.org/attachments/stories/WomensEmpowermentPrinciples.pdf

Paths to Power: Advancing Women in Government

Submitted by kpeterson on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 1:30pm

When it comes to women’s advancement, few achievements can compare with the rising role of women in government. The move to achieving full gender parity may be slow and uneven, but women are increasingly being elected and appointed to positions of power.

URL: 
http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Global/Local%20Assets/Documents/Public%20Sector/dtt_ps_pathstopower_010310.pdf

Diversifying the Leadership Project Advisory Committee

Submitted by vivhdem on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 4:24pm

Advisory Committee for Diversifying the Leadership

Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Chair), Director, Women's Research & Resource Center, Spelman College 

Inés Hernández Ávila, Director, Chicana/ Latina Research Center, University of California, Davis

Damary Bonilla, Latina Initiative Project Manager, Girls Incorporated

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Location: 
United States
39° 44' 20.9544" N, 104° 59' 4.9308" W
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Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)

Judith S. White is the executive director of Higher Education Resource Services (HERS), an educational non-profit that provides leadership and management training for women in higher education administration. The main offices of HERS are located on the campus of the University of Denver. Previously Dr. White was assistant vice president for campus services and adjunct professor of women’s studies at Duke University. She has taught and held administrative positions at Dartmouth College, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Charlotte, and Queens College. Dr. White was a Senior Fellow of the Association of American Colleges and Universities from 2003-05, serving as an advisor to AAC&U’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Global Initiatives and the Project on the Status and Education of Women and as chair of the advisory board of Campus Women Lead. Judith attended Salem College before finishing her B.A. at Princeton University. She received her M.A.

Location

Denver, CO
United States
39° 44' 20.9544" N, 104° 59' 4.9308" W
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United States
34° 10' 0.8112" N, 118° 8' 10.3344" W
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Applied Women's Studies Program

Linda M. Perkins is Associate Professor of the Claremont Graduate University. She holds an interdisciplinary university appointment in the departments of Applied Women's Studies, Educational Studies and History. Perkins is a historian of women's and African American higher education. Her primary areas of research are on the history of African American women's higher education, the education of African Americans in elite institutions and the history of talent identification programs for African Americans students. She has served as Vice President of Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and has also served as a member of the Executive Council of AERA. She is currently on the editorial boards of the History of Education Quarterly and the Review of African American Education.

Location

Claremont, CA 91104
United States
34° 10' 0.8112" N, 118° 8' 10.3344" W
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United States
40° 42' 51.3684" N, 74° 0' 21.5028" W
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The Feminist Press CUNY

Gloria Jacobs is Executive Director of the Feminist Press, a non-profit publisher affiliated with the City University of New York. The Press has been publishing books by and for women around the globe for 36 years, and also publishes WSQ, the Women’s Studies Quarterly. A journalist, author and feminist activist, Ms. Jacobs was for many years the Executive Editor of Ms. magazine. She is the co-author, with Barbara Ehrenreich and Elizabeth Hess, of Re-making Love: The Feminization of Sex, which analyzed the convergence of the women’s movement and the sexual revolution. Her articles have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Guardian (UK), Mother Jones, Working Mother, and New York Woman. Working as a consultant for the United Nations, she edited and wrote several major reports on the status of women around the world.

Location

New York, NY
United States
40° 42' 51.3684" N, 74° 0' 21.5028" W
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Red Networks: Women Writers and the Blacklist in Television

Submitted by jmumbey on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:22pm
Member Organization: 
Center for the Study of Women in Society
Date/Time: 
03/13/2010

Carole Stabile, Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society; Professor, English and School of Journalism and Communication, will talk about the blacklisting of women television writers during the anti-communist crusade at this CSWS “Road Scholars” presentation.

“Understanding Disabled Women’s Experience with Abuse: Recasting Identities while Conducting Collaborative Anticipatory Research”

Submitted by jmumbey on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:12pm
Member Organization: 
Center for the Study of Women in Society
Date/Time: 
03/10/2010

Deborah Olson, assistant professor, Special Education

This project complements research being conducted by the Trauma Healing Project, which is examining how survivors experience trauma in order to understand the mechanisms of healing and to promote healing practices to service providers and the community.

The research will be expanded to include women with disabilities who are also survivors of trauma.

Location: 330 Hendricks Hall, Jane Grant Conference Room

Finding Face: A Film About Violence Against Women

Submitted by jmumbey on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:05pm
Member Organization: 
Center for the Study of Women in Society
Date/Time: 
03/04/2010

“‘Finding Face’ details the controversial case of Tat Marina, who was attacked with acid in Cambodia in 1999. At 16, Marina was a rising star in Phnom Penh’s karaoke music scene. She was coerced into an abusive relationship with Cambodia’s Undersecretary of State, Svay Sitha, and subsequently doused with a liter of nitric acid—allegedly by his wife—that disfigured her face. A decade later, despite the fact that there were multiple witnesses to the crime, no charges have ever been filed in the case” (from the Finding Face website).

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