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Successful Career Tips from Savvy Career Women: The Four Patterns of Gender Bias
Presented by Joan C. Williams
September 3, 2012, at 7:00pm
Highlands Room, Festival Student and Conference Center

Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Thirty-five years of social science show that women may encounter pushback when they do the same things men do. This talk both will describe the patterns of bias documented by social science, and will share strategies successful women have used to navigate the unique challenges professional women often face.

Joan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Hastings Foundation Chair, Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She has played a central role in reshaping the debates over women’s advancement for the quarter century. According to The New York Times, “she has something approaching rock-star status” among work/life advocates. She won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2000). She has authored or co-authored seventy academic articles and chapters and five books, most recently Reshaping The Work-Family Debate: Men and Class Matter (Harvard Univ. Press, 2010).

Women's History Month Keynote Speaker: Loretta Ross
"Reproductive Justice & Human Rights: Being Better Together"
Wednesday, March 14 | 6:30 pm | Miller Hall 1101

Loretta J. Ross is a co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, a network founded in 1997 of 80 women of color and allied organizations that work on reproductive justice issues to fulfill a need for a national network that would organize women of color in the reproductive justice movement. SisterSong is headquartered in Atlanta, GA and one of its major projects is fighting the anti-abortion billboards and legislation around the country targeting African American communities. Loretta is an expert on African American women and abortion politics in the U.S., having written extensively for the past 20 years on the subject.

Ms. Ross was National Co-Director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history with more than one million participants. As part of a 35-year history in social justice activism, between 1996-2004, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia. She taught more than 1 million people about human rights violations in the United States, and helped many social justice activists learn how to use the human rights framework in their work.

Summer and Fall 2012 Course Offerings

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News

Last Fall 2010, the program advisory board with the support of students in the minor voted to revise the program name to Women's and Gender Studies.

Check out Harrisonburg's fabulous roller derby team, the Rocktown Rollers!

Be sure to check out the Women Students Caucus blog JMU Shout Out!

Spring 2012 course descriptions are available. Contact Dr. Mary Thompson at thompsmx@jmu.edu.


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