Gender Committee Symposium

The CIES GENDER COMMITTEE
invites you to a three-part Gender Symposium on

Promoting and Deconstructing Gender Equality in Education in 2005: Issues and Challenges
Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 10:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m

The goals of Education for All (EFA) adopted in Dakar 2000 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) established 2005 as the first target date for achieving gender parity in education. Building on the unique convergence of higher education and development agency expertise at CIES, the Gender Symposium will explore and critique the ways in which international agencies, governments, and civil society organizations promote gender parity and gender equality in education discourse, policy, and practice.

GENDER SYMPOSIUM

    PART ONE (10:30 - 12):
"Promoting Gender Equality through the UNGEI: Successes and Challenges"
Dr. Cream Wright
Education Section Chief, UNICEF

"Promoting Gender Equality through USAID Programming"
Dr. Christina Rawley
USAID/WID EQUATE Project Director

"Deconstructing Gender Rhetoric in EFA and MDG Documents"
Dr. Mary Ann Maslak
Former CIES Gender Committee Chair
Assistant Professor, St. John's University

"Deconstructing Gender Equality in Development Discourse"
Dr. Beth Goldstein
Professor, University of Kentucky


    PART TWO (12:00 - 1:30):
The Eggertsen Lecture
Dr. Nelly Stromquist
Professor, University of Southern California


    PART THREE (1:30 - 3:00):
Roundtable Discussion: Panelists, Eggertsen Lecturer, and Discussants
Chair: Dr. Heidi Ross, Indiana University
Rapporteur: Dr. Suzanne Grant Lewis, Harvard University

The $20 fee for the Gender Symposium will include the Eggertsen lecture brown bag lunch and refreshments during symposium sessions.

Last Updated December 8, 2004