Explaining India’s Deficit of Girls : online discussion at PRB Thursday 6/11 at 1 pm

Population Reference Bureau PRB Discuss.
Chat online with Leela Visaria, researcher and president of the Asian Population Association, on the Asian countries imbalance of genders and the implications for the future.  June 11, 2009, 1 pm EDT.
India, along with China and several other countries, has a history of neglect for girls and women that produced lower [...]

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson speaking at UConn 4/28/2009

Dear Readers,
I received this email today:
Dear Fellow UConn Community Members,
On Tuesday, April 28, 2009, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson will be speaking at
the Torrey Life Sciences Building, Room 154 at 6:00PM. Admission is free.
Rev. Peterson’s address, which will examine how Barack Obama drew on
racist feelings within the black community and defrauding the white
community, is a stop [...]

April 28 : Equal Pay Day 2009

Equal Pay Day – Tuesday, April 28, 2009. What does that mean?
Do the math.
It takes a woman:
January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008
+ January 1, 2009 through April 28, 2009
to earn what a man would earn in the calendar year 2008

Are you outraged?

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Women’s History Month

Even though Women’s History is celebrated and studied all months of the year, March is the officially designated time to showcase our work and accomplishments locally, nationally, and globally. It’s a history that has been unknown to most, invisible to many historians, and so valuable for our daughters and sons. Our young girls need [...]

Tess Bird, feminist poet, spoke at Sunken Garden Poetry Festival

On June 25, 2008, our own UConn Women’s Studies grad, Tess Bird, read several of her poems at the Hillstead Museum’s Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. She was one of the winners in the Connecticut Poetry Circuit competition. Her feminist strength came through in all the poems but I especially liked her last poem where she [...]

Joan B. Kroc Institute For Peace&Justice: Womens Peacemaker Conference

Joan B. Kroc Institute For Peace&Justice: Womens Peacemaker Conference

IPJ Women PeaceMakers Conference

Crafting Human Security in an Insecure World
An international working conference to probe and address global acquiescence to impunity, gender violence and exclusion that continues to obstruct peacebuilding and deny human security.
September 24 – 26, 2008
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace [...]

Nadereh Chamlou to speak at Storrs on Tuesday

Tuesday, April 29, 3:30, BPB (Bio Physics Building) 130:
“The myth and reality of gender equality and women’s empowerment in the Middle East and North Africa Region.”  Lecture by Nadereh Chamlou.
Sponsored by the Office of International Affairs (OIA), the Women’s Studies Program, and the Middle East Studies Group
About the Speaker:
Nadereh Chamlou is Senior [...]

More Events for Sexual Assault Awareness Month – Storrs Campus

UWomen Listserv
Stalking and Cyberstalking: Identification and Safety on Campus
Monday April 21, 4 pm, Women’s Center
Linda Blozie, Director of Public Affairs: Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence will discuss how we can define and recognize stalking, share information about prevalence on college campuses, review strategies for risk reduction and primary prevention education. In particular, she will [...]

At UConn: Permanent Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) Public Hearing, Wednesday, February 27, 2008

PCSW Public Hearing Topic: Getting To A Better Tomorrow: Economic And Financial Security — Wednesday, February 27, 2008
A large number of Connecticut families are finding that their costs are rising faster than their wages. A recent report, Where Connecticut Stands, commissioned by the PCSW stated that 19%, or one-in-five Connecticut households lacks enough money to [...]

Molly Blank, filmmaker, on campus Dec. 4: Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the new South Africa

TESTING HOPE:
Grade 12 in the new South Africa
Film Viewing and Discussion
with Molly Blank
Filmmaker, Director, & Producer
Tuesday, December 4th 2:30-4:30 PM
Konover Auditorium-Dodd Center
Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the new South Africa tells the story of four students in Nyanga township outside Cape Town, who started school the year that Mandela was elected president, as they prepare [...]