TO: Principals, Deans, Academic Directors & Chairs
FROM: Edith Hillan, Vice-Provost, Faculty and Academic Life
DATE: January 10, 2012
RE: Bridging the Gender Gap in the News: A Public Talk and Panel Discussion
Please circulate the following announcement to your faculty and graduate students
Bridging the Gender Gap in the News: A Public Talk & Panel Discussion Tuesday, January 31, 12pm-2pm OISE Auditorium (G162)
Keynote Speaker:
Shari Graydon, The Top 7 Reasons Smart Women Should Speak Up Panel Discussants:
Megan Boler, Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Kathy English, Public Editor, Toronto Star Esme Fuller-Thompson, Professor and Sandra Rotman Chair in Social Work
Just how scarce are women's perspectives in public discourse, and what's behind their absence? Some of the answers are predictable, but others may surprise. Even though women constitute 61% of university graduates, women's perspectives account for less than 20% of the commentaries in Canada's largest daily newspapers and on public affairs talk shows. The Informed Opinions project is exploring the consequences and working with women and journalists to change the ratio. This talk and panel discussion will review the status of women in the news and discuss ways to bridge the current gender gap by supporting women in contributing their ideas and analysis to the public discourse.
Sponsored by:
Office of the Vice-Provost, Faculty & Academic Life and Strategic Communications
For more information: lisa.wilkes@utoronto.ca and claire@informedopinions.org
Register at: http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/link/events/miscevents/informed_opinions_2011.htm
BIO NOTES
Shari Graydon is an award-winning author and activist with 20 years experience on both sides of the microphone. A former newspaper columnist, TV producer and CBC commentator, she also served as press secretary to a provincial premier, and as president of MediaWatch. Shari received the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons' Case in 2007 and has written two best-selling media literacy books for youth. She is the driving force behind Informed Opinions, a non-profit project being funded in part by sales of her latest book, I Feel Great About My Hands.
Megan Boler is the Associate Chair of the Department of Theory and Policy Studies, Coordinator of the History and Philosophy of Education program, at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (UT), and Associate Faculty of the Center for the Study of United States and the Knowledge Media Design Institute also at UT. Previously she served as Director of Women's Studies at Virginia Tech in 2002-03. She speaks internationally on social justice in political and cultural contexts, pedagogy of discomfort; race, class, and gender in education and media, explored through cultural, feminist and communication studies.
Kathy English is Public Editor at the Toronto Star. She has reported and edited for six Canadian daily newspapers including the Star and the Globe and Mail, taught at Ryerson School of Journalism for 10 years and completed a Master's degree in Canadian history. She has launched websites for SunMedia, Transcontinental Media, and BabyCenter Canada. Kathy served on the board of the National Newspaper Awards for 5 years and currently sits on the board of the Association of Newspaper Ombudsmen, and on the Ethics committee of the Canadian Association of Journalists.
Esme Fuller-Thompson is cross appointed to the Faculties of Social Work, Medicine and Nursing at the University of Toronto. Esme's research has also had an influence outside the academic community. Her research on disability and poverty was discussed in Time Magazine's cover story (12/04/06) on "This Year in Medicine." Her studies have been featured in hundreds of newspaper articles on five continents including front page articles in The Chicago Tribune, The National Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail; as well as profiled in a television documentary on CBC's The National.
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