Mid Century to the Next Century: The Future Is Female
LIVE Zoom Lecture
In a 50-plus-year race run by modern-day Suffragists, women’s opportunities for fairness, equality, pay equity, and quality of life have changed…who will be there to take the baton this decade? Houston’s top universities’ professors in Women’s Studies and Women’s History will be showcasing via Zoom how Suffragists continued the cause for women’s equality that was the catalyst of “The Future is Female” movement.
Learn about how the Equal Rights Movement from the 1970s kept the torch lit for the demand for equal opportunities in business ownership, community leadership, and representation in local and national politics and what “The Future Is Female” looks like tomorrow. Speaking points will include feminist economics, civil engagement and activism, the state of women in politics, overcoming cultural barriers and the generational gap, and closing the gap on women’s inequality.
Panelists:
Texas Southern University:
Dr. Karen Kossie-Chernyshev is a professor of History at Texas Southern University and founding director of SWATH (Summer Workshop on African American Texas History). She specializes in topics in African American History, African Diaspora, and women. She edited two scholarly books, “Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace” and “Angie Brown: A Jim Crow Romance”, which won the first-place 2019 Indie Award in the African American Literature category.
Email: Karen.Kossie-Chernyshev@tsu.edu
Rice University:
Dr. Diana Strassmann is the Carolyn and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor in the Practice at Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and she is the Director of Rice’s Program in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. She is the founding editor of the journal, Feminist Economics, now in its 27th year of publication, and was a co-founder of the International Association for Feminist Economics. Her current research focuses on the impact of feminism on economics.
Email- dls@rice.edu
Dr. Lora Wildenthal is the John Antony Weir Professor of History at Rice University. She also serves as Faculty Affiliate with the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She teaches on the History of Feminism and has authored two books "German Women for Empire, 1884-1945” and “The Language of Human Rights in West Germany”.
Email- wildenth@rice.edu
University of Houston:
Dr. Leandra Zarnow is an associate professor of History and affiliate faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Houston. There, she co-directs the digital humanities project, "Sharing Stories from 1977" on the National Women's Conference, which will launch its website on Women's Equality Day, 2021. She is the author of “Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug”, and co-editor of the essay collection “Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920”. (Click on books’ titles to purchase)
Email- lrzarnow@central.uh.edu
MODERATOR
Liz Lara-Carreño is the Director of Marketing & Outreach for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program where she has worked with more than 1,000 businesses. She currently serves as the executive director for LLC-Strategies, and prior to HCC, she served as the executive director for K9s4COPs. Liz also co-led Carreño Group Public Relations firm. Liz gained much of her expertise from her 21-year global career in leadership roles with Continental Airlines.
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Panel discussion: Historical and philosophical perspective from Houston’s top (Universities Women’s Studies and History Professors) of how women have climbed up the equality ladder since the 19th Amendment, the first National Women’s Conference in Houston 1977, and how can women achieve equality from this point forward.
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