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sfbay: [swissnex events] Women Equality in Academia

From: Christian Simm <click for textversion of email address >
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:54:21 -0700
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Dear All,
Let us remind you of an upcoming three-day workshop at swissnex, with
top speakers ...

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TUESDAY JULY 12 to THURSDAY JULY 14, 2005
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«« Managing Equity in Swiss and American Universities »»
Multi-day workshop with top speakers from the USA and Switzerland.
Participation only in parts of the workshop possible. For a detailed
program in PDF format :
http://www.swisstalents.org/enews/documents/20056/managing-equity.pdf

PART 1 (Tue July 12, daytime)
- Historical Perspective on Affirmative Action and Employment
Discrimination Laws
- Swiss Introduction: Can University Administration Set the Tone?
- US Introduction: Can University Administration Set the Tone?
- US Introduction: Status of Women Faculty in Colleges and Universities
- Swiss Introduction: Status of Women Faculty in Universities
- Women in Research Universities: An Economist\u2019s View Over 30 Years

PART 2 (Tue July 12, evening)
- Art Exhibit Celebrating Women: A collection of Paintings by the women
artists of Mithila, India
- Shachi D. Shantinath, Founding Director, Woman-to-Woman International
- Keynote Moira Gunn, host, Tech Nation

PART 3 (Wed July 13, daytime)
- Angelica Stacy, Professor of Chemistry and Associate Vice Provost for
Faculty Equity, University of California, Berkeley
- US Introduction: Slow Steps to Change: 1971 to 2004 \u2013 A History of
Women\u2019s Issues at UCSF
- Gender Equality - Snapshot from Industry
- Building and Retaining a Diverse Workforce at Pacific Gas & Electric
Company
- Swiss Introduction: How to Measure Equity?
- How Stereotypes and Microinequities Undermine Gender Equity
Initiatives

PART 4 (Wed July 13, evening)
- Art Exhibit Celebrating Women: A collection of Paintings by the women
artists of Mithila, India
- Google's Global Diversity and Female EE / CS Talent Acquisition
Strategies and Policies
- Anne MacLachlan, Senior Researcher, Center for Studies in Higher
Education, University of California, Berkeley
- Keynote Denice Denton, Professor of Engineering and Chancellor of the
University of California, Santa Cruz

PART 5 (Thu July 14, daytime)
- Brown Bag Lunch (bring your own lunch)
- Panel Discussion: \u201cFurthering Women and Increasing the Impact of
Women\u201d
- Introduction to Brides of Frankenstein, an exhibition of work by
women artists who use new technologies to animate synthetic creatures,
opening at the San Jose Museum of Art on July 31, 2005

LOCATION : @ swissnex, 730 Montgomery St. between Washington & Jackson,
next to the Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco. For directions and
parking http://www.swissnex.org/about_location.html#directions

REGISTRATION
Separate registrations for the various parts of the workshop at
http://www.sciencelink.org/about/events.htm

____________________________________

Christian Simm - Executive Director
swissnex : connecting the dots
730 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111 (USA)
T (415) 912-5901 x104
F (415) 912-5905
www.swissnex.org
christian.simm_at_swissnex.org
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