Events Archive 2005-2006
October 2005
“Kim Gandy on Current Events” Discussion
October 5
Co-sponsorship American Constitution Society and Yale Law Women
Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization of Women joined WFF and the law students to discuss current issues on Supreme Court Nominations and the recent NY Times Article on the Ivy League and Motherhood.
Surviving after Work: Pensions and Social Security
An “Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private” Seminar
October 5
Cosponsored by Yale WorkLife Office
- Kim Gandy, President, National Organization of Women
- Karl Ulrich Mayer, Director, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Professor, Sociology Department, Yale University
- Robert Shiller, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University
- Sharon Oster, (moderator) Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics & Management, Yale University
As the step out of our working lives, social security and pensions become primary issues. Within the context of the United States, we looked at issues of privatization and the long-term solvency of traditional Social Security benefits. We placed this national discussion in a comparative conversation with global perspectives on occupational structures.
Click here for more information on the "Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private" Seminar Series.
The First Decade of Coeducation: A Woman’s View, Master’s Tea Series
Shelley Fisher Fishkin ’71
November 1
Bobbi Mark '76 and Vera Wells '71
November 7
Women graduates joined the Yale community for Master’s Teas to discuss their undergraduate experience at Yale during the first decade of coeducation. The Master of Saybrook College, Mary Miller, and the Master of Calhoun College, Jonathan Holloway, hosted the teas. The women spoke about their experiences in various fields of work and about their history with respect to different aspects of undergraduate life.
Women’s Leadership and Scholarship Around the Globe Reception
October 11
Cosponsored by the World Fellows Program
This reception recognized international women leaders and scholars visiting Yale through several different campus programs, including the World Fellows. The event enabled honorees and attendees to share and discuss research and innovations to further gender equality around the world.
“What's the Purpose of a Yale Education?” A Forum on Gender, Education, and Career in response to the NY Times Article
October 19
Panelists: Louise Story, Journalist; Peter Salovey, Dean of Yale College; Meg Urry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Margaret Doherty, Yale College ’07; Nels Ylitalo, Yale Law School ’07.
In response to the recent article "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood," this panel addressed the accuracy of the article’s conclusions. In addition to the “truth of the trend,” we asked what beliefs and opinions are part of the decision of young privileged and educated women to seemingly give-up that privilege to be “only” stay-at-home-moms?
November 2005
Empowering Women’s Voices: Student Publications at Yale
November 2
A panel discussion on women’s student publications at Yale University highlighted graduate and undergraduate women’s initiatives to create avenues of expression and dialogue. The event included those who organize and write journals such as Manifesta, Aurora, and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. This offered an opportunity to network around women’s writing at Yale, to build support, and address the barriers to such initiatives.
How Health Works Out: Healthcare Challenges throughout the Lifecycle
An “Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private” Seminar
November 16
Cosponsored by Yale WorkLife Office
- Sherry A.M. Glied, Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- Jacob Hacker, Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
- Jennifer Ruger, Assistant Professor, Division of Global Health, Yale University
- Carolyn Mazure, (moderator) Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
This session addressed a variety of health infrastructures and their effectiveness in creating health throughout the lifecycle. In a global context, health disparities continue to grow often disproportionately affecting women, children and the elderly. Questions addressed were: How can burdens of care be managed by addressing issues of access (coverage, cost, location, availability)? How do current national and global government-provided health systems and funding impact healthy lives? What possibilities exist for reform and what social values play a role in prioritizing future plans?
Click here for more information on the "Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private" Seminar Series.
December 2005
Gendering the Curriculum Town Meeting
December 6
We gathered the Yale community to discuss how efforts can be made to “gender” the curriculum across the campuses. The meeting served as a networking opportunity to galvanize scholarship and teaching around issues of gender at Yale. We asked: What benefits or drawbacks come from integrating gender studies within departments and courses? How might this affect other efforts to diversify the content of courses and teaching? What on-going efforts need to be developed to connect the teaching of gender throughout the university? The department chair for Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Laura Wexler, facilitated the conversation with university administrators and faculty from a variety of departments and professional schools.
January 2006
"Until you are what you ought to be": Remembering King, Rekindling Hope Master’s Tea with Professor Jan Willis
January 16
Co-sponsored by Coalition for Diversity at Yale
Jan Willis is Professor of Religion and Walter A. Crowell Professor of the Social Sciences at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She has studied with Tibetan Buddhists in India, Nepal, Switzerland, and the United States for more than three decades, and has taught courses in Buddhism for over twenty-five years. One of the earliest American scholar-practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism, Professor Willis has published numerous essays and articles on Buddhist meditation, hagiography, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race. Her latest published project was the memoir, Dreaming Me: An African American Woman’s Spiritual Journey. In December of 2000, Time Magazine named Willis one of six “spiritual innovators for the new millennium.” Dr. Willis will talk about King's legacy of non-violent engagement, combined with a reading (from Dreaming Me) about marching with King in 1963.
Gendering the Campus: the Curricula of Coursework and Lifework, Working Group
January 23
Our first working group meeting will feature Carolyn Mazure, Associate Dean Yale School of Medicine Faculty Affairs and Director of Women's Health Research and Laura Wexler, Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Based on the groups comments from our December meeting, they will share their thoughts on ways to network and how networking between the medical school campus (nursing, medicine, labs) and central campus can benefit the goals of Gendering the Campus.Please RSVP if you plan to attend; we will offer a refreshments and a small lunch.
February 2006
Transitions Series: Grad Student to Post Doc to Faculty Member: the Real Story
February 7
Cosponsored by Graduate Career Services at the MacDougal Center and Women Mentoring Women
The Transitions Series has been created to advise graduate students openly about what to expect and how to be successful as they move beyond graduate school. The series will cover how to transition from the role of a graduate student to that of a faculty colleague, what being a faculty member is really like verses the myths graduate students and junior faculty have been led to believe, and how some PhDs have transitioned from their graduate work into different academic positions. This series is co-sponsored by Graduate Career Services at the MacDougal Center and Women Mentoring Women.
The 4 Ds
February 10
We all have enormous agendas we are tackling on a daily basis along with constant requests from colleagues and students to do more. Our "to do" lists range from the sublime to the mundane. How do we decide what to tackle, when, and how? This session gives an overview of two models that help make our "to do" lists more manageable, in some cases by saying no before it even makes our list. The first model is a subset of Stephen Covey's work looking at urgent versus important items, and the second model explores what to do with the resulting list through a "4 D's" paradigm.
This faculty development workshop will be given by Laura Freebairn-Smith, Director of the Organizational Development and Learning Center.
Gendering the Campus: the Curricula of Coursework and Lifework, Working Group
February 27
The GtC working group provides a place for graduate students, post-docs, and faculty to engage in a constructive, interdisciplinary conversation on issues of gender. The main foci of the group are how to achieve gender mainstreaming throughout the curriculum, interrogating the lived experience of gender outside the classroom (but still within the academic setting of the University), and gaining a better understanding of how gender is used (or not used) as a category of analysis. The working group supports networking initiatives to sustain an on-going conversation about these issues across the campus. Each session was 60 minutes; we began with a short presentation by an invited guest then open for discussion within the larger group. This spring the working group fpcisedits efforts on these issues as they pertain to Yale.
Working for Care: Families and the Workplace
A“Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private” Seminar
February 28
Cosponsored by Yale Work/Life Office, American Constitution Society, and Yale Law Women
- Kathleen Christensen, Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Chai Feldblum, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
- Nina Pillard, Professor of Law, Georgetown University
- Joan Williams, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
- Reva Beth Siegel, (Moderator) Nicholas deB Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale University Law School
This session considered child care and other related issues affecting individuals as they balance the demands of their work and family lives. In addition to looking at how parents and other family members negotiate the relationship of family life and work life, we examined understandings of public and private spheres that govern those negotiations. How do contemporary concepts of individual and collective responsibility impact work/life policies? How can legal and policy interventions create more family friendly work relations and better name discrimination biases? To what extent are our goals shared or conflicting, and if so, can different visions be reconciled?
Click here for more information on the "Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private" Seminar Series.
March 2006
Women, HIV/AIDS, and Faith: Perspectives from African Women Theologians
March 1
Co-sponsored by Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and the Yale Divinity School Women’s Initiative on HIV/AIDS
Women, HIV/AIDS, and Faith: Perspectives from African Women Theologians highlighted the work of two visiting “Faith Fellows” from Sub-Saharan Africa to discuss their work on the intersection of HIV/AIDS, religion, and faith practices in their home regions.
Transitions Series, Myths of the Academy: What being a Faculty Member is Really Like?
March 2
Cosponsored by Graduate Career Services at the MacDougal Center and Women Mentoring Women
The Transitions Series was been created to advise graduate students openly about what to expect and how to be successful as they move beyond graduate school. The series covered how to transition from the role of a graduate student to that of a faculty colleague, what being a faculty member is really like verses the myths graduate students and junior faculty have been led to believe, and how some PhDs have transitioned from their graduate work into different academic positions.
April 2006
Renegotiating Public and Private: Focus on Issues of Social Security, Healthcare, and Childcare
A "Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private" Seminar
April 19
Cosponsored by Yale Work/Life Office
- Carolyn Mazure, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
- Sharon Oster, Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics & Management, Yale University
- Reva Beth Siegel, Nicholas deB Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale University Law School
The fourth panel was comprised of the WFF moderators from the first three panels. Within the areas of Social Security, Healthcare and Child/dependent care, the speakers addressed what policies and structures guide our current balance of work life demands and what change initiatives to pursue, learning from national and international models. The panelists shared insights from the three previous discussions as well as challenges when articulating responsibility for such changes.
Click here for more information on the "Working Lives: Renegotiating Public and Private" Seminar Series.
Transitions Series: Academic to Administrator
Cosponsored by Graduate Career Services at the MacDougal Center and Women Mentoring Women
The Transitions Series was created to advise graduate students openly about what to expect and how to be successful as they move beyond graduate school. The series covered how to transition from the role of a graduate student to that of a faculty colleague, what being a faculty member is really like verses the myths graduate students and junior faculty have been led to believe, and how some PhDs have transitioned from their graduate work into different academic positions.