Women's Issues (Video)

The 114th Congress convenes in 2015 with just one fifth of the 535 House and Senate seats being filled by women -- a fact that causes UC Berkeley public policy graduate student Suzanne Merkelson to question whether half of the US population is being adequately represented on Capitol Hill. Series: "Public Policy and Society" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29119]

Karima Bennoune, Professor of International Law at UC Davis and author of “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here,” gives the keynote talk for the “Defying Extremism” conference focusing on how moderate Muslims, women and their allies can stand up to violent extremism. Bennoune is presented as part of the Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series at the Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. Series: "Peace exChange -- Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28819]

Award-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 College and has published widely on the Shoah in Eastern Europe. She is presented here as part of the Holocaust Living History Workshop at UC San Diego. Series: "Writers" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 28811]

Miss 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 Psychological Services; Elisa Bonora, Co-Producer/ Additional Editor of the documentary. Constance Penley, Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, moderates. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 28369]

In 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]

Panelists 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 Professor and Chair of Anthropology, UC Riverside. Series: "UC ADVANCE PAID" [Public Affairs] [Education] [Show ID: 25201]

Shirley 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]

Dallas 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]

Conversations 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 understand the condition of women in the academy, she highlights the tools at her disposal to bring change including the role of the legal system, especially Title IX, and the dissemination of information. Throughout the discussion Professor Mason analyzes the importance of understanding how changes in structure in institutions and culture together with attitudinal change by women can insure their hopes for equality Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Education] [Show ID: 25073]

Dr. 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: "Osher WISE: Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 24630]