Jahan To Speak On Global Status Of Women
Dr. Rounaq Jahan will deliver a lecture “Women’s Empowerment: A Continuing Struggle” on Wednesday, April 9 at 7 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Thursday, April 3, 2008 01:59 PM
The lecture, which will discuss the status of women as global actors in the last 30 to 40 years, is free and open to the public.
Jahan, a native of Bangladesh, will use both personal experience and research to discuss issues facing women in the developing world. Her talk will focus on women’s access to education and employment, their contributions in decision making and political leadership, and their reproductive and economic roles in society. She will balance the success women have had with the constraints they still face.
Currently, Jahan is a senior research scholar at the Southern Asian Institute and adjunct professor of international affairs in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University
In addition to her research, Jahan has also worked in governance, health, and the politics of Bangladesh. Some of her work includes Bangladesh: Promise and Performance, which she edited, and The Elusive Agenda: Mainstreaming Women in Development.
Prior to her current positions, Jahan served in an advisory role for policymaking bodies for the Bangladesh government in the fields of education, culture, rural development, women, and population. She also headed the Program on Rural Women, Employment and Development Department at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. For two years, Jahan worked with the United Nations Asia Pacific Development Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia coordinating the Program on Integration of Women in Development.
For more information on this program or other Center for Ethics programs, please visit www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/ethics.
Muhlenberg College gratefully acknowledges the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation’s support of the Center for Ethics.
