The Barnard Summit: Women, Leadership and
the Future, to assess how the changing role
of women is altering society and the family
Historic
conference on Saturday, Oct. 27, features Janet
Reno, Gov. Jane Swift, Marian Wright Edelman,
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Gwen Ifill and others
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New
York, N.Y., Oct. 15, 2001 - To better understand
how the changing role of women is altering society
and the family, to assess the remaining barriers
to full equality between women and men, and
to recommend strategies for further progress,
Barnard College will host a day-long summit
on Women, Leadership and the Future, Saturday,
October 27, that will bring together women leaders,
scholars and social observers.
Speakers
include: former U.S. Attorney General Janet
Reno, Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift, Children's
Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman,
Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss
Kanter, and Catalyst President Sheila Wellington,
among others. Two panels will be moderated by
PBS's Gwen Ifill and Barnard President
Judith Shapiro, a cultural anthropologist.
"We
are at an historic crossroads in gender relations
where, for the first time in the history of
Western Civilization, women and men are on the
verge of sharing power," said Shapiro, chair
of the summit. "If we are to reach this goal
successfully, we need to better understand how
genuine equality will change our businesses,
families and communities - and to make sure
that the work traditionally done by women does
not become undervalued or abandoned."
The summit will examine how women's unprecedented
participation in the public world is transforming
the nation's political, judicial, and economic
institutions, as well as the family and women
themselves. It will address the social and cultural
basis of gender roles. It will compare changing
norms in the U.S. with those in other countries
in order to suggest ways for breaking through
the barriers to full gender equity. The summit
also seeks to focus wider public attention on
the historic changes taking place with the rise
of women's leadership - what it means for the
future of human welfare, and what the obstacles
are to further progress.
"The
summit will bring together some of the most
celebrated and thoughtful women of our time
to take stock of women's changing role in the
world and to explore how best to fulfill the
promise of full equality for future generations,"
said Richard Karz, producer of If Women Ruled
the World: A Washington Dinner Party, and
co-chair and executive director of the summit.
Janet
Jakobsen, director of the Barnard Center for
Research on Women, noted: "The summit offers
us the opportunity not just to focus on women's
leadership and how more women can become leaders,
but also on the effects of women's leadership
- how are the lives of both women and men changing
as power-sharing becomes a possibility?"
The summit will be preceded by a panel on The
Future of Women in Business on Friday, Oct.
26, that will focus on the current corporate
environment for female executives, on what the
best opportunities are today for women in business,
and on the balance of work and family.
Program
for Friday, Oct. 26:
The Future of Women in Business
3-5 p.m., Julius Held Lecture Hall, Barnard
Hall; reception to follow; admission free
Moderator:
Francene S. Rodgers, chief executive
officer of Work/Family Directions Inc.
Ellen Galinsky, president of Families
and Work Institute
Janet Tiebout Hanson, president and CEO
of Milestone Capital Management
V. Sue Molina, partner and national director,
retention and advancement of women, Deloitte
& Touche, LLP
Deborah Rosado Shaw, founder and chief
executive officer of Umbrellas Plus
Program
for Saturday, Oct. 27:
Registration
starts at 9 a.m., Barnard Hall, 117th Street
and Broadway.
Panel
I: Women and the Public World: Do Women Leaders
Make a Difference?, 10 a.m., LeFrak Gymnasium,
Barnard Hall
Moderator: Gwen Ifill, moderator and
managing editor, Washington Week, PBS
Cari M. Dominguez, chair, The U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission
Dina Dublon, chief financial officer,
JP Morgan Chase
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor of business
administration, Harvard Business School
Claudia Kennedy, general (ret.), U.S.
Army
Jewell Jackson McCabe, founder and chair,
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Janet Reno, former United States attorney
general
Naomi Wolf, author and cofounder, The
Woodhull Institute
Panel
II: The Future of Family and Community: Who
Will Do Women's Work?, 12:30 p.m., LeFrak
Gymnasium, Barnard Hall
Co-sponsored by Families and Work Institute
Moderator: Judith Shapiro, president,
Barnard College
Patrice Adcroft, editor-in-chief, Seventeen
magazine
Ann Crittenden, author, The Price
of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in
the World Is Still the Least Valued
Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder,
Children's Defense Fund
Jean Bethke Elshtain, professor of social
and political ethics, The University of Chicago,
and chair, the Council on Civil Society
Carol Gilligan, professor of gender studies,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Jane Swift, governor, Massachusetts.
Panel
III: Women of the World: Lessons from Abroad/Conclusion,
2:30 p.m., LeFrak Gymnasium, Barnard Hall
Moderator: TBA
Maleeha Lodhi, ambassador of Pakistan
to the United States
Mamphela Ramphele, managing director,
The World Bank
Judith Shapiro, president, Barnard College
Paivi Sinisalo, U.S. Correspondent, Finnish
News Agency
Sheila Wellington, president, Catalyst
Marie Wilson, president, Ms. Foundation
and The White House Project
Reception
will follow at the Rotunda of Low Library.
[Program
subject to change.]
The Barnard Summit: Women, Leadership and the
Future is led by a distinguished advisory board
and a steering committee including: Judith Shapiro,
Richard Karz, and Janet Jakobsen, director,
Barnard Center for Research on Women. The summit
will precede the national broadcast on PBS
of If Women Ruled the World: A Washington
Dinner Party, a roundtable discussion in
which Shapiro participated along with Senator
Kay Bailey Hutchison, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,
Betty Friedan, General Claudia Kennedy, and
Newsweek Contributing Editor Eleanor
Clift, among others.
As
part of the summit, a group of young women leaders
between 22 and 35 will participate in a series
of forums to identify the salient issues facing
women's leadership in an era of political, military
and global change; their questions have been
linked to the agendas of each panel. This parallel
gathering is called the Young
Women's Leadership Summit.
The summit is made possible in part by the generous
support of J.P Morgan Chase & Co., Milestone
Capital Management, The Goldman Sachs Foundation,
The New York Times, Families and Work
Institute, and The Ford Foundation. Hotel accommodations
are provided by Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts
and Essex House. Summit media partners are iVillage
and Seventeen.
Barnard College is an independent, highly selective
liberal arts college for women located in New
York City and affiliated with Columbia University.
Founded in 1889 and a pioneer in the higher
education of women, Barnard's 2,300 undergraduates
today are drawn from 49 states and more than
30 foreign countries.
What:
The Barnard Summit -- Women, Leadership and
the Future
Where: LeFrak Gymnasium, Barnard College, 117th
Street and Broadway
When: Saturday, Oct. 27, 10 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(Registration begins at 9 a.m.)
TICKETS
FOR THE SUMMIT ARE SOLD OUT. To reserve space
for the preceding Friday panel, contact Jane
Celwyn by email: jcelwyn@barnard.edu.
Click
here for parking
information.
Click here for nearby
accommodations.
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Barnard Public Affairs, 212-854-7907,
ptuomi@barnard.edu
Lucas Held, 212-854-7583, lheld@barnard.edu
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