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Gender Equity: Local and Global Gender Equity Council Report 2008-09 ***** Spring 2009 Events The Provost's Spring Lecture on Gender Equity: Video (click and scroll to bottom)
Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Abigail Stewart is Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is past Director of the Women's Studies Program and the founding Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She currently is Director of the UM ADVANCE Program, a multi-level program designed to improve the campus environment for all faculty—particularly women and underrepresented minorities—in terms of recruitment, retention, climate and leadership. She has published many scholarly articles and several books, focusing on the feminist theory and the psychology of women's lives, personality, and adaptation to personal and social changes. Her current research, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods, includes comparative analysis of longitudinal studies of educated women's lives and personalities; a collaborative study of race, gender and generation in the graduates of a Midwest high school; and research and interventions on gender and science and technology with middle-school-age girls, undergraduate students, and faculty. Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Law Auditorium ****** Fall 2008 Events The Provost's Fall Lecture on Gender Equity: Rationales for Diversity in Science and Technology
Evelynn Hammonds is Dean of Harvard College at Harvard University and Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and Afrian American Studies. Dean Hammonds earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University, an S.M. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.E.E. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Insstitute of Technology, and a B.S. in physics from Spelman College. From 2005-08, she served as Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard and advised the provost and president on faculty appointments and on issues related to the tenure process, supported the recruitment and advancement of minorities and women and oversaw the administration of funds designated to facilitate appointments of outstanding scholars who also increased the diversity of faculty. Her current work focuses on the intersection of scientific, medical, and socio-political concepts of race, the history of disease and public health, gender in science and medicine, and African-American history. She is completeing a history of biological, medical, and anthropological uses of racial concepts entitled, The Logic of Difference: A History of Race in Science and Medicine in the United States, 1850-1990. She is also co-editing the MIT Reader on Race and Gender in Science. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Council on Gender Equity, Gender and Women's Studies, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, and others. *****
Gender Equity Council Report 2008-09 Related Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Inside Illinois news story on the Gender Equity Council Feb. 2008 Videos of the Provost Lectures on Gender Equity Virginia Valian, Fall 2007 Nancy Hopkins, Spring 2007 Abigail Stewart, Spring 2009 Related Links: Equity
Materials from Gender Equity Project:[Hunter College, CUNY] Global Gender Equity Sites: Gender
Equality Architecture and UN Reforms ******* Council on Gender Equity Spring 2008 Request for Proposals for Faculty Development Projects ******* Past Events Spring 2008 Provost's
Spring Lecture on Gender Equity: Souad Halila (PhD in History from the University of Southern California, 1988) is Assistant Professor of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Tunis Al-Manar. Prior to that, she has taught at the University of the Center in Sousse, Tunisia for eight years and at King Saud University, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for 11 years. Totally dedicated to teaching and research (and gardening too), she makes a point of introducing new subjects to the department's curriculum every two years, teaching American history, contemporary issues in Britain and the USA, research methodology, and focusing on Multiculturalism, Black Studies, Islamic Issues, Civil Society, and Environmental Issues. A three-time Fulbright scholar to the United States, the last was under the program, "Direct Access to the Muslim World" (September-October 2006). She is the author of several articles about Black, Islamic, and Environmental issues. She lectures in Saudi Arabia, France, Spain, and the USA. She is fluent in Arabic, French, and English. At the World Universities Forum in Geneva in early 2008, she spoke on the changing poition of intellectuals in the Muslim world.
***** Fall 2007 Events Provost's
Annual Lecture on Gender Equity
April 26, 2007, Nancy Hopkins, MIT Center for Cancer Reearch, Women in Science at MIT: A Generation of Change (1971-2007), Beckman Auditorium, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, sponsored by Office of the Provost, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, and Women in Engineering
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Provost's
Inaugural Lecture on Gender Equity