Gender equity expert to speak April 19
Michael Kimmel, gender equity expert and shriver report author will speak at 7 p.m. April 19 in honor of Equal Pay Day in Balch Auditorium Scripps College.
The American Association of University Women-CA, Intercollegiate Women's Studies of the Claremont Colleges and Scripps Gender & Women's Studies Department will sponsor a series of events April 19 featuring Kimmel.
Kimmel will discuss "Mars and Venus, or Planet Earth: Why Women's Equality is Good for Men, Too" and address "workplace equality, the glass ceiling, pay equity, work-life balance, sexuality, and sexual assault, making the case that women's equality is in everyone's interest."
Kimmel will also visit classes, conduct a pay equity workshop for students and meet informally with faculty.
The events are sponsored with funding from AAUW-CA's Gloria Weston Campus Outreach Fund, which supports programs at California colleges on gender and pay equity and funding from IWS, according to the news release.
Kimmel, a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has written extensively on men and masculinity, violence against women and privilege and other topics.
Kimmel's chapter for The Shriver Report, "Has a Man's World Become a Woman's Nation?," on men's responses to women's entry into the workforce, can be found at: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/10/womans_nation.html.
Interviews with Kimmel can be at:
http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/interv/kimmel.html and
http://www.feministing.com/archives/018406.html.
The American Association of University Women-CA, Intercollegiate Women's Studies of the Claremont Colleges and Scripps Gender & Women's Studies Department will sponsor a series of events April 19 featuring Kimmel.
Kimmel will discuss "Mars and Venus, or Planet Earth: Why Women's Equality is Good for Men, Too" and address "workplace equality, the glass ceiling, pay equity, work-life balance, sexuality, and sexual assault, making the case that women's equality is in everyone's interest."
Kimmel will also visit classes, conduct a pay equity workshop for students and meet informally with faculty.
The events are sponsored with funding from AAUW-CA's Gloria Weston Campus Outreach Fund, which supports programs at California colleges on gender and pay equity and funding from IWS, according to the news release.
Kimmel, a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has written extensively on men and masculinity, violence against women and privilege and other topics.
Kimmel's chapter for The Shriver Report, "Has a Man's World Become a Woman's Nation?," on men's responses to women's entry into the workforce, can be found at: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/10/womans_nation.html.
Interviews with Kimmel can be at:
http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/interv/kimmel.html and
http://www.feministing.com/archives/018406.html.
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