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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
New
York, N.Y., Aug. 9, 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. The panels will be
moderated by PBS's Gwen Ifill, CNN's Judy
Woodruff, 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, 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 forum on Friday, Oct. 26, at
Barnard, on The Future of Women in Business, moderated by
Francene S. Rodgers, chief executive officer of
Work/Family Directions Inc., and will include Ellen
Galinsky, president of Families and Work Institute, and
Janet Tiebout Hanson, president and CEO of Milestone
Capital Management, among others.
Program for Saturday, Oct. 27:
Panel I: Women and the Public World: Do Women Leaders Make
a Difference?, 10:00 a.m.
Moderator: Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing
editor, Washington Week, PBS
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
Panel II: The Future of Family and Community: Who Will Do
Women's Work?, 12:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Families and Work Institute
Moderator: Judith Shapiro, president, Barnard
College
Ann Crittenden, author, The Price of Motherhood:
Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least
Valued
Jean Bethke Elshtain, professor of social and
political ethics, The University of Chicago, and chair,
the Council on Civil Society
Patrice Adcroft, editor-in-chief, Seventeen
magazine
Carol Gilligan, professor of gender studies,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder,
Children's Defense Fund
Mary Gordon, professor of English, Barnard College
Jane Swift, governor, Massachusetts.
Panel III: Women of the World: Lessons from
Abroad/Conclusion, 2:30 p.m.
Moderator: Judy Woodruff, CNN
Mamphela Ramphele, managing director, The World
Bank
Rosario Robles, first woman mayor of Mexico City
Judith Shapiro, president, Barnard College
Sheila Wellington, president, Catalyst
Marie Wilson, president, Ms. Foundation and The
White House Project
[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.
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, and
the Families and Work Institute. 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: Barnard College, 117th Street and Broadway
When: Saturday, Oct. 27, 10 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Registration
begins at 9 a.m.)
Registration fee is $40 (includes lunch); free with
college ID. Please contact the Barnard Office of Public
Affairs, e-mail
summit@barnard.edu, or call 212-854-2037 for tickets.
Space is limited.
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Barnard Public Affairs, 212-854-7907,
ptuomi@barnard.edu
Lucas Held, 212-854-7583,
lheld@barnard.edu |
