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Stay connected with the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs, the Elliott School's resource for curriculum, scholarly research, and engagement in the policy and practice of promoting and achieving gender equality globally.
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Registration for Spring 2020 begins on November 14.
Find the complete schedule of classes here.
Find the list of GEIA classes here.
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In This Edition | November 4
- Podcast Highlight
- 100 Years of Women's Rights Activism
- GEIA Update
- GEIA Events
- Course Highlight
- Student Spotlight
- Career & Internship Opportunities
- Other Upcoming Events
- Book Highlight
- Documentary Highight
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Women in International Security (WIIS) Words 2.0 is a podcast that allows members and listeners to engage in rich and diverse conversations about international security. WIIS hosts conversations with national and international security experts, gender analysts, WIIS members and international affiliates. The first episode in their new series focuses on gender parity in higher education.
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100 YEARS OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVISM
Showcasing pioneering women leaders and male allies
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The year 2020 marks the anniversaries of several pathbreaking policies, laws and events for women's rights. It will mark
In this series we explore the lives of the brave women and their male allies from across the world who have been champions of women's rights. In every issue of the Bulletin we will showcase pioneers of women's rights activism from across the world.
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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was an Indian freedom fighter, women's rights activist, social reformer, and artist. She is regarded as one of India's fiercest feminist voices.
Early in her life, Kamaladevi understood that the freedom struggle was a cataylst for social reconstruction. With the idea of mass movement as a means of social cohesion, she worked to bring more diverse voices in the process. She became a grassroots organizer, getting more women engaged in the freedom movement. She also ensured that women were at the forefront of large scale civil disobedience movements. She was arrested and spent five years in prison, where she devoted her time and energy to learning more about the rural economy.
After independence, she steered away from politics because she had become disillusioned by its imperial nature. However, she took an active role in social reform. When political discourse revolved around industrialization, and mass production of goods, she became a champion of the cooperative movement. She brought focus to the artisan community, and women's contribution in the unorganized sector. In order to promote artists and weavers, she set up several national institutions to revive traditional arts and crafts.
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Did you know?
When Mahatma Gandhi launched his Salt Satyagraha - a march to protest the salt tax imposed by the British government in India - his original protest force consisted entirely of men. It was Kamaladevi's relentless efforts that got him to change his mind, and make the demonstration more inclusive.
You can learn more about the suffrage movement in the United States at the following events/exhibits:
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Shall Not be Denied - Women Fight For The Vote
June 4, 2019 - September 2020
Monday - Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Southwest Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building
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This year, numerous DC museums and institutions are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment.
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GEIA will be hosting a student led conference on each of these breakthrough moments in history in March 2020. More information will be provided in future editions of the Bulletin.
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On Tuesday, October 15, the Elliott School hosted the Shapiro Lecture Series on Women, Peace and Security with Admiral Michelle Howard.
Admiral Michelle J. Howard has served 35 years in the United States Navy. She has led sailors and Marines multiple times in her career as the commander of a ship, an expeditionary strike group, a task force and a Naval theater. In 1999, she became the first African American woman to command a ship in the Navy. In 2014, she was the first woman to become a four-star Admiral in the U.S. Navy, and the first woman to be appointed to the position of Vice Chief of Naval Operations. She is the first African American woman to reach the rank of three- and four-stars in the U.S. Armed Forces.
She presented her analysis of the United States Strategy on Women, Peace and Security. In her opinion, the strategy can be strengthened if specific agencies are responsible for parts of the plan rather than directing various federal agencies to create action plans “that cover [its] entire portfolio.”
According to her, the lines of effort are to:
(1) support the meaningful participation of women in conflict and crisis decision-making;
(2) promote the protection of women and their access to safety from violence, abuse and exploitation around the world
(3) adjust U.S. programming to improve equality outcomes for women; and
(4) encourage partner governments to adopt policies that improve the meaningful participation of women in peace and security decision-making institutions.
GEIA Director, Dr. Shirley Graham, and Associate Professor of Practice in International Affairs, moderated the discussion. Her doctoral research has examined gendering processes within militaries that position women and men in particular roles formally and informally, supporting and/or inhibiting women’s access to peacekeeping missions.
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Somatic Encounter - The Politics of the Body in the Work of Irish Artists, Aideen Barry and Alice Maher
Tuesday, November 12 | 7:00 PM | 1307 L Street, NW, Abramson Family Auditorium
The event will look at the recuperation of the female voice in art and literature, with special emphasis on the social, political and cultural histories of a resurgent Ireland in a globally regressive context. It is hosted by Solas Nua, in collaboration with NYU Washington, DC. The event will feature the screening of the film 6SKIN, followed by a panel discussion. The discussion will feature the artists, Aideen Barry and Alice Maher, Dr. Tina Kinsella, Head of the Department of Design and Visual Arts at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin, Ireland. The event will be moderated by GEIA Director, Dr. Shirley Graham.
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Sports Diplomacy and Gender
Wednesday, November 20th | 12:00 - 1:15 PM
Room 602 | Elliott School of International Affairs | 1957 E Street, NW
Ms. Joanna Lohman is a sports diplomat and LGBT rights advocate. She played with the U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team from 2000-2007 and for the Washington Spirit (2015-2019) in the National Women’s Soccer League. Joanna leads programs in less developed nations around the world that promote gender equality, conflict resolution, cultural understanding, and economic development in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State.
Ms. Nora Summerville (GW MAIA ‘17), moderator, is a monitoring and evaluation specialist for PeacePlayers International. PeacePlayers is an organization that offers sports programming, peace education, and leadership development to those living in communities in conflict. Nora is also a former player for the San Francisco Nighthawks of the Women’s Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and Football Féminin Chênois GE of Geneva, Switzerland.
Light lunch will be provided!
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IAFF 6502: 1 Credit Skills Based Spring Course
Feminist Research Methods in Post Conflict Settings
Are you looking for an experience based Spring course?
This skills course will focus on research methods that can be applied to post-conflict development and give students insight into how feminist praxis can (and should) inform approaches to post-conflict intervention. Through experience, students will be introduced to practical research tools including Photovoice and Everyday Peace Indicators, which can be incorporated into program design and evaluation.
Jessica Smith, GEIA Research Fellow is the instructor. This course meets Saturdays, February 1st and 8th, 2020.
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Yuxin LeiYuxin Lei is a second-year graduate student in the Master of Arts in International Affairs program, with a dual concentration in Global Gender Policy and International Development. She has taken classes such as Gender, Disaster, Development, and is currently enrolled in Global Gender Policy, taught by GEIA Director, Dr. Shirley Graham. She has experience working on research related to women’s political participation and feminist foreign policies with different INGOs and think-tanks to practice what she has learned from her coursework.
“GEIA has offered me terrific learning opportunities, not only in class but also through my professors and events. The classes I have taken through GEIA have helped me put what I have learned in school into practice at work. I have been inspired and determinate to work for gender equality in my future career.”
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CAREER AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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- **NEW** Executive Director, The Leadership Council for Women in National Security
- **NEW**Program Coordinator, Institute for African Studies, Elliott School
- **NEW** Gender Specialist, World Vision
- **NEW** Senior Social Specialist - GBV, World Bank
- **NEW** Gender, Social Inclusion Consultant, Nathan Inc
- **NEW** Gender Smart Investing Specialist, Palladium
- **NEW** Paid Programs Intern, International Women's Media Foundation
- **NEW** Paid Digital and Brand Management Intern, Promundo
- **NEW** Spring Women's Rights Project Undergraduate Intern, ACLU
- **NEW** Spring Foreign Aid Policy and Advocacy Intern, Save the Children
- Program Assistant, Women Enabled International
- Program Intern, Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Specialist, Tetra Tech
- Program Coordinator (Sexual Harassment), DC Government
- Gender and Global Security Program Assistant, Women in International Security
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Women in Global Careers Roundtable
Thursday, November 7th, 2019 | 5:00 - 9:30 PM | City View Room | 1957 E St NW
The Roundtable will provide the opportunity for personal discussions regarding industry, positions and guidance on how women can excel in their chosen fields and the global arena. Industries to be covered include consumer products, financial and tax services, earth sciences, industrial security services, international trade, risk and crisis management. Roles include finance and accounting, HR, IT, marketing, research, strategy, consulting, sustainability, and more.
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WGSS Alumni Speaker Series
Friday, November 22, 2019School of Media and Public Affairs | 805 21st St NW, Room 309
Event Details and RSVP
The WGSS Alumni Speaker Series continues this Fall with Susan Markham, partner at Smash Strategies, Trey Johnston, Associate Director, Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute, and Gina Chirillo, Senior Program Officer, Gender at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
The WGSS Alumni Speaker Series showcases and celebrate the many accomplishments and diverse paths our alumnae have taken, through a dialogue on challenges and opportunities in working toward change on issues related to women, gender, and sexuality, here in the United States, and around the world.
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Gender, Families, and Climate Justice
Tuesday, November 5 | 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Johns Hopkins SAIS | 1740 Massachusetts Ave NW
Climate justice needs women’s voices, experience, and leadership. Women’s Learning Partnership is bringing together thought-leaders on climate justice and women’s rights to discuss the role of women and youth in confronting the climate crisis. Women have suffered the greatest from natural disasters, loss of arable land, and forced migration, and have been on the forefront of working towards sustainable solutions. This event promises a lively and thought-provoking discussion and poetry reading about the nexus between the fight for climate justice and addressing political, social, and economic inequalities.
Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will be the keynote speaker. A panel of distinguished speakers will be moderated by Musimbi Kanyoro, WLP Board Chair and Former President of Global Fund for Women. A session on “Lifelines: The Poetry of Human Rights” will be moderated by Abena Busia, Poet and Ghanaian Ambassador to Brazil.
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The Fletcher School's Conference on
Gender and International Affairs 2019November 15 - 16, 2019 | The Fletcher School, Tufts University
The 5th Annual Conference on Gender and International Affairs, hosted by The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, will be held on November 15-16, 2019.
The theme of the Conference will be [En]gendering Change: A Rally for Action. There will be five panels: Marginalized Masculinities; Women in Peace Conflict; Bodies as Battlegrounds; Decoding the Patriarchy; and International Activism: Lessons from the Field. The Conference will also hold workshops on Breaking Down the Binary: A Toolkit for Gender Inclusive Programming and Policy Making; Gendering Research Design; Empowering Future Leaders: The Steps to a Successful Political Campaign; and the Anatomy of an Ally.
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Would you like your event featured in our Newsletter? Interested in co-sponsoring an event with GEIA? Submit your inquiry and we'll be in touch as soon as we can.
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Women and Gender Perspectives In The Military: An International Comparsion
The book compares the integration of women, gender perspectives, and the Women, Peace, and Security agenda into the armed forces of eight countries plus NATO and United Nations peacekeeping operations. This book brings a crossnational analysis of how militaries have or have not improved gender balance, what has worked and what has not, and who have been the agents for change. The country cases examined are Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, and South Africa. Despite increased opportunities for women in the militaries of many countries and wider recognition of the value of including gender perspectives to enhance operational effectiveness, progress has encountered roadblocks even nearly twenty years after United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 kicked off the WPS agenda.
The book has been edited by Robert Egnell and Mayesha Alam. Published in 2019 by Georgetown University Press, the book features a foreword by GIWPS executive director Amb. Melanne Verveer.
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This film by Xavier Hamon and Hannah Stapleton opens the conversation about gender roles, women's empowerment, masculinity, women’s coffee and the importance of working towards gender equality for the sustainability of the coffee industry. Filmed between January and March 2018, from Mexico to the United States, the film follows the story of women and men involved in the production, transformation and consumption of coffee.
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