March 2nd, 12:15-1:30 PM, Van Munching Hall Atrium
The University of Maryland 2011 First Year Book committee selected Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, which chronicles the courageous stories of women who, through education and microfinance strategies, were able to break free from a life of sexual slavery, gang rape, or poor maternal health. The authors believe that empowering women is not only a moral issue, but also an economic and political issue that affects the well-being of individuals, the household, the community, the workplace, and the broader society. Half the Sky underscores the importance of providing an empowering education that enables both men and women to work together to solve these vital issues.
The School of Public Policy plays a critical role in educating our emerging policy leaders to engage in solving major societal issues and to embrace our responsibility to the rest of the world. Many of the issues in this book are directly addressed in the School’s teaching and research.
The School of Public Policy is pleased to host “Empowering Women in Developing Countries: Solutions and Policies,” to explore the issues raised in HALF THE SKY. Ioana Petrescu, Assistant Professor in International Development, will represent the School as part of an all-female panel designed to explore the large policy issues while addressing what specifically can be done to help solve the issues raised in the book. The conversation will also discuss how University of Maryland students can prepare themselves through their educational programs to effectively attack the broad social issues that the book so clearly identifies.
PANELIST
Caren Grown joined USAID as Senior Gender Advisor in the Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning. She is on leave as Economist-In-Residence at American University, where she also co-directs the Program on Gender Analysis in Economics. Formerly, she was Senior Scholar and Co-Director of the Gender Equality and Economy Program at The Levy Economics Institute at Bard College and Director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Governance team at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW).
Her recent books include Taxation and Gender Equity, co-edited with Imraan Valodia (Routledge 2010), The Feminist Economics of Trade, co-edited with Irene Van Staveren, Diane Elson, and Nilufer Cagatay (Routledge 2007), and Trading Women's Health and Rights: the Role of Trade Liberalization and Development, co-edited with Elissa Braunstein and Anju Malhotra (Zed Books 2006). She is the lead author (with Geeta Rao Gupta) of Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women (Earthscan Press 2005) and co-author (with Gita Sen) of Development, Crises and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives (Monthly Review Press 1987). Her articles have appeared in World Development, Journal of International Development, Feminist Economics, Health Policy and Planning, and The Lancet.
Dr. Grown is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics, a member of the External Gender Forum of the Asian Development Bank, and a founding member of the International Working Group on Gender and Macroeconomics (GEM-IWG), based at the University of Utah. From 2001-2004, she served as Senior Associate of Task Force 3 of the UN Millennium Project, an advisory group to UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan, on gender equality and women's empowerment. She has consulted with the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program. She holds a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research and a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Jody Zall Kusek has provided leadership in the area of results based management at the World Bank for eleven years. She is a leader in the World Bank on Monitoring and Evaluation and has co-developed the Results Based Country Assistant Strategy methodology. This business planning model has been successful in focusing investments to achieve targeted development outcomes on the ground. Currently she serves as Advisor within the Bank’s Health and Nutrition Group, with a focus on HIV and AIDS and development. She was the Cluster Leader within the World Bank’s Africa Region working on improving results management across the Sub- Saharan African countries.
Earlier, Ms. Kusek worked for the Clinton-Gore Administration in the United States, helping with designing and implementing the Government Performance and Results Act that is the hallmark of the US’s strategic and program planning model. She is the co-author of Ten Steps to Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation, now in its 5th printing and available in six languages. This handbook is used by academic institution, national governments, and developing partner’s worldwide to better understand the principles and practices of results based M&E. She also recently co-authored Making Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Work, published in June 2010. This book is on the Bank’s list of top ten selling books and has been used by the University of Witwaterstrand in South Africa to develop a curriculum on Public Management and Development. She is also the author of numerous papers on government management; results based management and poverty monitoring system development. Ms. Kusek has masters degrees from the University of Michigan and the George Washington University.
Nelly P. Stromquist is a professor of international education policy in the College of Education at the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in international development education and her M.A. and B.A. from the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies in political science. Dr. Stromquist specializes in issues related to international development education and gender, which examines from a critical sociology perspective. Her research interests focus on the dynamics among educational policies and practices, gender relations, social justice, and societal change. More recently, she has been studying how the processes of globalization are shaping structures and functions of education, especially at the higher education level.
Her most recent books are: Feminist Organizations and Social Transformation in Latin America (Boulder: Paradigm, 2006), (ed.) The Professoriate in the Age of Globalization (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2006), (ed.) La construcción del género en las políticas públicas. Perspectivas comparadas desde América Latina (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2006), Género, educación y política en América Latina (Santillana, 2004), and Education in a Globalized World. The Connectivity of Economic Power, Technology, and Knowledge (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). She has served as associate editor of the Comparative Education Review and is on the editorial board of various journals in the U.S., the U.K., Spain, South Africa, and Brazil. She has served as a consultant to several international organizations, including UNESCO, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, the International Institute for Educational Planning, USAID, and the World Bank. She is former president of the Comparative and International Education Society and a 2005-06 Fulbright New Century Scholar.
MODERATOR
Ioana Petrescu, Assistant Professor in International Development, holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College. Her research focuses on international health and international development. In her work, she assesses the impact of economic sanctions on child health as well as the deterrent effect of sanctions on military conflicts. She also writes on other topics, such as taxation and entrepreneurship in developing countries.
The program is made possible through a grant from the Pepsi Enhancement Fund.
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