GENDER WEEK 2008

“Out of the Cube:  Aesthetic, Political, Medical, and Discursive Approaches to Gendered Identities”

Thursday and Friday, September 25 and 26, 2008

Symposia Presentations

Clemens Hall 120 

Baldy Center/Law School Conference on Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession

Full program details on the Web at
http://law.buffalo.edu/baldycenter/probono.htm

All events are free and open to the public!

The following gender-related courses will be offered in the fall of 2008 at the University at Buffalo.  The links indicated will lead to a university catalog off the Gender Institute site.   Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it if you know of a course not listed here.

Janice L. Moritz Lectureship Fund with the Institute for Research & Education on Women & Gender

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The 2008 JANICE L. MORITZ LECTURE

LORNA ARRINGTON

Women MUST Use Their Voice:

Policy and Power


Friday, April 25, 2008 @ 3 pm
105 Harriman Hall, South Campus                  
A reception will follow the lecture

It is essential that women become more involved wherever they can influence and improve policies that affect equitable treatment in the workplace and the welfare of families. Pay Equity Day was held on April 22 this year, and it highlights the fact that the average salary for a women (at $0.77 for each $1.00 earned by men) still trails that of men. Women work almost 16 months to earn what men earn in 12.

The under-utilization of the power that women can have is evident in the carefully built federal legislation (recently vetoed) that would have expanded health care coverage for children.  As women assume more leadership roles, they have an opportunity to have a significant impact on other policies involving trade, labor conditions and the environment. Union workers in the US can negotiate for its “left behind” workers when jobs are shipped abroad. Higher salaries, wages and better benefits for workers outside the US can help level the field and would reduce abuse of those workers.