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Pembroke Center Associates Events
Commencement Forum
Brown Women: Breaking Barriers in the Workplace 
Saturday, May 26th, 11:00 a.m.
List Auditorium, 64 College Street, Providence, RI
Last
year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. On Saturday, May 26th, four remarkable Brown women who broke ground in new careers for women join us
to share their personal stories and professional milestones. How has the role
of women in the workplace changed and how has gender inequality persisted?
Panelists:
Sharon B. Drager, M.D. ’67, vascular surgeon
Andrea I. Razzaghi ’82, Assistant
Director, Planetary Science Division at NASA
The Honorable O. Rogeriee
Thompson ’73, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Moderator:
Leah W. Sprague ’66, Retired Justice, Massachusetts Trial Court
Women 2012: Taking a Worldwide Reading
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 3:00 PM
Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Liberty Room, 33 Liberty Street, New York City
What is the status of women worldwide in 2012? Join the National Council for Research on Women to explore the gains and gaps in different regions with international and national experts.
Presenters:
Saadia Zahidi, Co-Author, World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report
Pat Mitchell, President and CEO, The Paley Center for Media (moderator)
The Pembroke Center is a founding member of NCRW and a cosponsor of this event.
This event is free and open to the public but pre-registration is required. Click here to learn more.
Making a Difference for Women Awards Dinner 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
5:30 PM Reception and Awards Dinner
Cipriani Wall Street - 55 Wall Street - New York City
Honorees
Beth A. Brooke
Global Vice Chair, Public policy, Ernst & Young, LLP
Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, and Gini Reticker
Co-Creators, Women, War & Peace
Anita F. Hill
Senior Advisor to the Provost, Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Women's Studies, Brandeis University
Soledad O'Brien
Anchor, CNN
Save the Date!Women's Leadership Conference:
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Pembroke Center 30th Anniversary Conference
Click here to see the video of President Simmons and Alison Bernstein.
Family Weekend Program: The Therapeutic Fix
Click here to see the video from this event.
Friday, October 14, 2011
4:00 pm
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI
From the apologies of disgraced public figures, to the confessions made on reality television, to the visions of fulfillment in self-help literature, therapeutic culture is pervasive in the United States. Conservatives claim therapeutic culture undermines individual responsibility while liberals argue it distracts attention from larger social and economic inequalities. Is there a therapeutic fix for what ails contemporary society?
- Lynne Joyrich AM’84 PhD’90, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media
- Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies
- Debbie Weinstein’93, Assistant Director of the Pembroke Center
Free and open to the public. Handicapped accessible. For more information contact: Pembroke_Associates@brown.edu
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