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BUSH, WOMEN AND THE WAR: A DISCUSSION WITH LAURA FLANDERS AND FRANCES FOX PIVEN"
Laura Flanders (Barnard '85) , bestselling author of BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species , and host of The Laura Flanders Show on Air America Radio, will join scholar-reformer Frances Fox Piven for a conversaton on "Bush, Women and The War," on Tuesday, October 19, at Barnard. The event is open to the community.
Flander is editor of The W Effect: Bush's War on Women ; and Piven is a distinguished author and professor at the Graduate School and University Center of CUNY. Piven's landmark books include Why Americans Don't Vote (1989) and Why Americans Still Don't Vote, And Politicians Like it That Way (2000), and most recently, The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism ."
Professor Lorraine Minnite of the Barnard Political Science Department has organized and will be the moderator for this important and timely discussion.
The event will take place from 6-8 P.M. in Julius Held Lecture Hall, Room 304 Barnard Hall on the Barnard campus at 3009 Broadway at West 117 th Street.
It is free and open to the public. No R.S.V.P. is required. For more information: please contact the Barnard Office of Public Affairs, (212) 854-7583
The discussion will focus on the different ways women have been affected by the current administration. A few examples:
- More older women than men spend their last years mired in poverty. While President Bush says that eliminating taxes on dividends will "help America's seniors make ends meet," fewer than one-quarter of older Americans--and only one-fifth of older women--ever see a stock dividend. Only 6 percent of black and Hispanic women live in families that receive any stock dividend.
- The large numbers of women who don't have health insurance; these woman are forced to put off treatment for diseases in their early stages and often seek medical attention after it's too late.
- Contrary to the notion that women have weathered recessions better than men, the truth is that women's unemployment rates have grown faster than men's, and long-term unemployment among women has increased.
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Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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