BARNARD
SUMMIT DRAWS NEARLY 1000 GUESTS IN DISCUSSION
OF WOMEN, LEADERSHIP, AND THE FUTURE
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The Barnard Summit Audience
Former Attorney General Janet Reno
Barnard
President Judith Shapiro and Massachusetts
Governor Jane Swift
The
First
Panel
Jean Bethke Elshtain and Marian Wright
Edelman
Claudia J. Kennedy and Gwen Ifill
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NEW
YORK, N.Y. - The Barnard Summit: Women, Leadership
and the Future, drew more than 900 people
to the College's LeFrak Gymnasium in Barnard
Hall on Saturday, Oct. 27, for a daylong discussion
designed to take stock of gender equity, identify
remaining barriers, and suggest ways to make
further progress.
The three panel discussions included: Women
and the Public World; The Future of Family and
Community; and Lessons from Abroad/Conclusion.
A full report on the conference that will be
published in March Barnard and the Families
and Work Institute [www.familiesandwork.org]
are producing a full report on the conference
that will be published in March. The proceedings
will be the subject of a PBS special produced
by Connecticut Public Television.
The
audience included students at Barnard and elsewhere,
members of the public, alumnae, representatives
of organizations, and members of the media.
A parallel event linked to the summit called
the Young Women's Leadership Summit involved
20 young women leaders, each of whom mentored
a Barnard student.
The event was preceded by a forum on The Future
of Women in Business held Friday, Oct. 26.
The summit was made possible in part by the
generous support of J.P Morgan Chase & Co.,
The New York Times, The Ford Foundation,
The Goldman Sachs Foundation, Milestone Capital
Management, with the assistance of organizational
partners Families and Work Institute, The White
House Project, and the Winds of Change Foundation.
Hotel accommodations were provided by Crowne
Plaza Hotels and Resorts and Essex House. Summit
media partners are iVillage and Seventeen.
Contact:
Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-2037
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