Women's Issues (Video)
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsWomen's issues are human issues. Explore the major issues affecting women in business, politics, science, health, at home and beyond.
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Hitler’s Furies: Ordinary Women? Featuring Wendy Lower - Holocaust Living History -- The Library Channel
December 08, 2014 21:00 - 56 minutes - 506 MB VideoAward-winning historian Wendy Lower discusses the lives and experience of German women in the Nazi killing fields. Her study chillingly debunks the age-old myth of the German woman as mother and breeder, removed from the big world of politics and war. The women Lower labels “furies” humiliated their victims, plundered their goods, and often killed them, and like many of their male counterparts, they got away with murder. Lower is the John K. Roth professor of history at Claremont McKenna Coll...
Brave Miss World Discussion
July 07, 2014 21:00 - 36 minutes - 371 MB VideoMiss Israel Linor Abargil was abducted, stabbed, and raped in Milan, Italy at age 18. She won the Miss World competition only six weeks later. The new documentary, “Brave Miss World” follows her from the rape, to her crowning and through to her crusade to fight for justice for victims of rape. Panelists: “Brave Miss World” Director Cecilia Peck; Jill Dunlap, Director of Campus Advocacy Resources & Education & Women's Center Programs at UCSB; Cassie Pasquariello, UCSB Counseling and UCSB Psych...
Fighting for Women in India-Legally Speaking
January 20, 2014 21:00 - 58 minutes - 610 MB VideoIn a country where as many as 100,000 rape cases are now pending in its courts, human rights attorney Rutuparna Mohanty has devoted herself to fighting for the rights of abused women and their families. In September, as a guest of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Mohanty spoke with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 25720]
How Can We Promote the Advancement and Success of Tenured Women Faculty?
July 22, 2013 21:00 - 57 minutes - 556 MB VideoPanelists discuss the distinct challenges facing mid-career women in STEM and related data in an effort to evaluate best practices in mentoring and programming. Panelists: Sharon Walker, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering and Chair in Environmental Engineering, UC Riverside, Angelica Stacy, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Equity and Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, Linda Walling, Professor of Genetics, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside, Sang-Hee Lee, Associate Profe...
The Importance of Mentoring Women and Minority Faculty at Every Career Stage: A National View
July 01, 2013 21:00 - 59 minutes - 622 MB VideoShirley Malcom, Head, Education and Human Resources, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Malcolm is a leader in global efforts to improve science and engineering education and diversity. Series: "UC ADVANCE PAID" [Public Affairs] [Education] [Show ID: 25198]
Welcome and Research Context - Mentoring Faculty in an Inclusive Climate: Supporting Women and URM STEM Faculty at the University of California
May 31, 2013 21:00 - 18 minutes - 178 MB VideoDallas Rabenstein, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Riverside, Susan Carlson, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, UC Office of the President, and Yolanda Moses, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Excellence and Equity and Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside, set the stage for the April 2013 conference on mentoring faculty in an inclusive environment. Series: "UC ADVANCE PAID" [Public Affairs] [Education] [Show ID: 25197]
Achieving Equality for Women with Mary Ann Mason - Conversations with History
May 20, 2013 21:00 - 58 minutes - 618 MB VideoConversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Berkeley’s Mary Ann Mason for a discussion of the evolution of the women’s movement. In the conversation, Professor Mason, the first woman dean of the graduate division at Berkeley, discusses her career as a historian, lawyer, and university official. She explains her focus on the family and its importance as an indicator of both changes in society and the status of women. Recalling her efforts at the University of California to generate data to unde...
The Female Brain: Balancing Social Expectations with Your Own Health
February 04, 2013 21:00 - 1 hour - 658 MB VideoDr. Louann Brizendine is a neuropsychiatrist interested in all aspects of the human mind. The author of “The Female Brain” and “The Male Brain.” An expert in women's moods and hormones, she explores the pressures that women face. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 24630]
The Politics of the Veil (Conversations with History)
June 01, 2009 21:00 - 56 minutes - 371 MB VideoHarry Kreisler welcomes historian Joan Wallach Scott who traces her intellectual odyssey and recalls the impact of the women's movement on her research and teaching. She describes the intellectual influences that led her to write the now classic article, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." She also discusses the utility of critical history for elucidating contemporary policy debates with a focus on her recent book "The Politics of the Veil," an analysis of the political, cul...