Gender Equality and Social Justice Event

Another interesting event this week:

Working with Men in Southern Africa for Gender Equality and Social Justice
Thursday, March 5, 12:30-1:30pm
Hess Student Commons

Please join the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health on Thursday, March 5 at 12:30 in Hess Commons for a special brown-bag seminar event.

We are proud to host Bafana Khumalo and Dean Peacock, Co-Founders and Co-Directors of the Sonke Gender Justice Network, as they present on, "Working with Men in Southern Africa for Gender Equality and Social Justice."

Please bring your own lunch. For more information on this special event, please visit:
http://www.mailmanschool.org/msphcal/event_display.asp?site=&event_id=2757

Transgender / Transsexual Bathroom - Restroom References

I believe one of the greatest problems that Transgender people are faced with is the usage of public restrooms. Due to the topic of this week, the following topic touches on the interdisciplinary focus of the course.

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http://etransgender.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=34

If you are a human resources manager in search of information pertaining to an employee's use of the bathroom the cites listed in this document will help you understand the legal and recommended dignified policy endorsed by the majority of corporations, citys, and organizations.

Employers facing the restroom issue for the first time are legally inclined to apply the "Principle of Least Astonishment", which is that a person who presents as a woman will be less astonishing using the women's restroom than the men's, vice versa for a person presenting as a man. If a concern arises, from the corporate Legal department or another employee the employer must provide alternative solutions for the employee complaining NOT the transgender individual.

(click on the link for the rest of the article)

The Senate discovers women

The Senate discovers women - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.com

The U.S. Senate is taking a welcome step: empowering a subcommittee specifically charged with global women’s issues. It’s the first time a subcommittee has had that mandate, and it will be led by Barbara Boxer of California, who will surely use her voice and spotlight to do some good on these issues.

Afghanistan's other voices: women's basketball team

Video: Afghanistan's other voices: women's basketball team | From the Observer | Observer.co.uk: "Afghanistan's other voices: women's basketball team

In a stadium on the outskirts of Kabul a new generation of young Afghan women, born in the midst of the country's conflict, train and talk about their hopes and fears for their country's future"

essay on gender and urban planning research

urban planning research � Blog Archive � Women’s Quiet Revolutions in Work, Home … and Travel?

What An African Woman Thinks: Welcome to the World, President Obama

What An African Woman Thinks: Welcome to the World, President Obama:

"...My hope is that you, being in many ways a citizen of the world, will help America come to the realisation that she is a part of the world, but that the converse is not true, that the world is not a satellite of America. I think that confuses America sometimes. I know we, the rest of the world, are not entirely exempt from blame in this regard [...]"

academic connections

This is a video Sung Park created for a fall 2008 course called Gender, Education, and Development. She made it to discuss the issue of the mistreatment of women in South Korea through informal employment roles.

Women’s Health: Resource Brief

Women’s Health: Resource Brief, MCH Library

"Resource Brief is an electronic guide to recent resources on Web sites, federal offices of women's health, and other related resources for health professionals and families. The brief, produced by the MCH Library, contains links to related bibliographies, knowledge paths, and organizations developed by the library. Topics include AIDS and HIV in pregnancy, assisted reproductive technologies, breastfeeding and working mothers, depression during pregnancy, domestic violence, maternal morbidity and mortality, nutrition and physical activity for women, nutrition during pregnancy, preconception and pregnancy, and smoking and substance use during pregnancy."

Global health is “the new pink”

The Lancet Student Archive Global health is “the new pink”:

"...To effectively practice medicine internationally, a doctor should be more than a doctor. He should be the health system administrator, public health advocate, policy maker and implementer, the economist, and the voice of the people he is serving. In theory, an effective global health doc would have an MD, MBA, MPH, JD, and a PhD all in one! In practice, people simply don’t have the money to go through 15 years of post-graduate work to help an underserved population."