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Wednesday, April 27,
2005
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
VCU Student Commons
Salon Rooms (2nd Floor)
907 Floyd Ave. (between Harrison and Cherry streets)
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What are the theological, biological and social roots of gender roles? In particular, why do women have lower status than men in most societies? Why are women excluded from church leadership in many major denominations of Judaism, Islam, Christianity and other major religions? Are their reasons valid? What do social science experts say about male-female psychological, cognitive or behavioral differences? Why do some people have such strong reactions to the notion that there may be biological differences in cognitive or psychological domains? What will happen with this category over the next 25, 50, 100 years?
Forum panel members
Anjum Ashraf Ali, co-founder of the Advocacy Center for Muslim Women
Archana Bhatt, Ph.D., Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond
Deirdre Condit, Ph.D., L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, and Women's Studies Program, VCU
Charles Demn, Catholic Studies program, VCU
Steven E. Rhoads, Ph.D., professor of politics, University of Virginia, author of �Taking Sex Differences Seriously�
Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D., MSW, FGSA, FCSBC, VCU Life Sciences and School of Social Work
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