August, 2015 – Women’s Seminar
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Tentative Schedule
Seminar on Women’s Status in the USA
Palm Beach State College, Palm Beach Gardens Campus
Friday, August 28, 2015
1:00 – 5:00PM, Room SC 127
1:00 Welcome and Introductions: Dr. Jean Wihbey, Provost and Edward Willey, Dean of Academic
Affairs
1:15 “Steps toward Equality” – Karen Wilkerson, League of Women Voters, PB County
1:35 “Reproductive Rights” – Joan Waitkevicz, National Organization for Women, PB County
1:55 “Economic Inequality” – Shirley Herman, National Organization for Women, PB County
2:15 “Title IX and Sex Discrimination” – Mareta Iosia-Sizemore, Palm Beach State College
2:35 BREAK
2:50 “Women and Education” – Eliana Mukherjee, Palm Beach State College
3:15 “Women in the Sciences I” – Lilian Jordan, Palm Beach State College
3:35 “Women in the Sciences II” – Becky Mercer, Palm Beach State College
3:55 “Gender and the Media” – Mary Pernal, Palm Beach State College
4:15 “Breast Cancer” – Ann Fonfa, National Organization for Women, PB County
4:35 “Sex Trafficking in the US” – Rosalie Alborg, National Organization for Women, PB County