Bozeman Magazine

Sack Lunch Seminar, Wednesday, November 15th, Noon- 1 p.m., SUB 168 A Path to Gender Equality: Cities for the Elimination of Discrimination Against All Women— Join Jan Strout, co-leader of the City of Bozeman Equal Pay for Equal Work resolution and MSU Instructor, Lauren Gette-King, MSU Instructor in Modern Languages and Literature and women’s rights activist, and The Rev. Valerie Webster, a progressive Christian leader in Montana and at the UN Commission on the Status of Women for this Sack Lunch Seminar. These Bozeman area and campus members are organizing an exciting and inclusive campaign to encourage local governments, organizations and communities to become more gender equitable. Research shows that inadvertent discrimination (unconscious bias) is common without a pro-active review of city activities, programs and budgets to ensure they effect men and women fairly. This workshop has examples and tools from successful US cities across the country to show us how the implementation of formal comprehensive advocacy program to advance the status of women can translate into social action and change, providing gender equity within our own community and across the U.S.