WHCOE Newsletter - Women's Health Update Fall 2008
 

Women's Forum Fall Event
October 22nd, 7:30-9am
Join women faculty to discuss ways to create and promote a supportive community at Wake Forest.
 
Porn Wars Symposium
October 25th, 10am-4pm
Think porn is sexy? Join this free adult discussion.  Lunch provided.
Presented by WFU Women's & Gender Studies.
Featured speakers are Professor and author Jane Caputi, from Florida Atlantic University, who will show her film The Pornography of Everyday Life as well as images of pornographic attacks on Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Sara Palin; Law Professor and author Ann Scales, from UNC-Chapel Hill, will speak on New Legal Remedies to the Harm of Pornography; and Matt Ezzell, of the Stop Porn Culture Movement, will speak on Masculinity and Pop Culture.   
 
Sex[ism], Identity and Intimacy in a Pornographic Culture: A Powerful Multi-media Presentation
October 30th, 7-9pm (Anyone 18 or older is invited to this free event)
Presented by WFU Women's & Gender Studies.
Facilitated by Dr. Gail Dines, Professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College and national leader of the Stop Porn Culture Movement. In her powerful multi-media presentation, Dr. Dines uses examples from pornography, magazines, television shows, and movies to explore how femininity and masculinity are shaped by consumer-based, image driven-culture, and the ways that public images spill over into our most private worlds.   
 

** Save The Date ** Upcoming AAMC Workshops:
http://www.aamc.org/members/wim/meetings/start.htm

Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar
July 11-15, 2009 - Ritz-Carlton Washington, D.C. - Washington, D.C.

Mid-Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar
December 4-8, 2009 - Westin Kierland Resort & Spa - Scottsdale, Ariz.

Minority Faculty Career Development Seminar
September 11-14, 2009 - El San Juan Hotel & Casino - Carolina, Puerto Rico

The Washington Post featured an article on the growing interest in academic public health programs and courses. The article describes how globalization and public health issues such as HIV/AIDS and pandemic flu have helped to contribute to the increase in demand for both undergraduate and graduate public health courses and made public health a "hot field." To read the article, visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091804145.html?hpid=topnews.

Top scholars gather to share research findings and works in progress that explore why gender gaps persist in the professoriate and other prestigious jobs on campuses. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/09/22/women

Sexist attitudes and the wage gap:  It's no secret that some people get paid more than others for doing the same job, but the reason may have less to do with employers' attitudes, than those of the employees themselves. In a new study, two researchers from the University of Florida find that men who subscribe to "traditional" (read stereotypical) ideas of gender roles make more money than their peers who have a more egalitarian mindset.  http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1843323,00.html

Position Announcements from ELAM

·         Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine –Stanford U SOM

·         Chief, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility – Stanford U SOM

·         Vice Chair for Education, Dept of Ob/Gyn – Indiana U SOM

·         Chair, Dept of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine – Rush Medical College

·         Founding Chair, Dept of Neurology – U Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

·         Senior Associate Dean for Research – U Kentucky COM

·         Multiple positions, NIH: The Center for Scientific Review is seeking a Director Division of Translational Clinical Sciences, as well as a Director, Division of Physiological and Pathological Sciences. The closing date for applications to these two positions is October 17th.  At the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a search is underway for Director, Office of Communications and Legislative Activities, a Senior Executive Service (SES) career position. The submission deadline for the NHLBI position is October 24th.