Gender out of Step? – 5th March 2009 – London
Making a difference: Gender in the state, the workplace and the family
International Women’s Day event
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, London School of Economics, Aldwych, London WC2A 2AE
Thursday 5 March, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
All welcome
The seminar on gender within society will be held to celebrate the following:
- 100 years of International Women’s Day
- 30 years of Girton admitting men into the college
- Girton College’s 140th anniversary
- University’s 800th anniversary
Speakers will present on an aspect of their work for 20 minutes, with time for questions and discussion after all three presentations.
The order of speakers will be as follows:
18.30 – 18.35: Chair (Mistress)-Introduction
18.35 – 18.55: First speaker: Dr Ben Griffin
18.55 – 19.15: Second speaker: Dr Mia Gray
19.15 – 19.35: Third speaker: Lady Hale
19.35 – 20.00: Chair (Mistress)- Questions/ discussion
20.00 – 20.05: Chair- concluding comments
20.05 – 20.30: Drinks Reception in the Senior Dining Room, LSE
Speakers:
Chairing the seminar: Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern
Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern has been Mistress of Girton College since 1998, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge for ten years until her recent retirement in 2008.
Baroness Hale of Richmond
Lady Hale is the first, and to date only, female law lord in the UK. Lady Hale is an alumna of Girton (matriculated in 1963), as well as being the College’s Visitor. She has been described as a ‘trailblazer’ amongst the British judiciary. She is an academic lawyer as well as having held a number of important judicial posts.
Dr Mia Gray
(Senior University Lecturer, Assistant Director of the Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies and Fellow of Girton College). Mia’s work explores the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in the workplace. She explores how social networks and the resources contained within them function differentially among workers to reinforce existing patterns of preferential access to the most desirable positions in the labour market.
Dr Ben Griffin
Ben Griffin is lecturer in History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of both Girton and Fitzwilliam Colleges. Ben’s research focuses on how male politicians responded to demands for women’s rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and what this can teach us about the history of feminism and liberalism, the history of masculinity, and the role of gender in political processes.
http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/alumni-roll/alumni-events/international-womens-day-event/
