“Driving Change, Shaping Lives: Gender in the Developing World”

• Videos
• Post-conference Coverage
• Description
• Schedule
• Exhibitions
• Associated Events
• Speaker Biographies

Videos

Experience the proceedings on-line: streaming video of the conference is now available on Harvard's YouTube and iTunes channels:

• Welcome and Shifting Populations Panel
• Health Panel
• Welcome Back and Technology Panel
• Education Panel
• Politics Panel and Summation

Post-conference Coverage

News

“The Need for Men to Back Women” (Harvard Gazette)
Radcliffe conference explores gender issues in developing world

Summaries

“Driving Change, Shaping Lives: Gender in the Developing World” panel summaries

Description

This conference will bring together leading experts from different fields, countries, and perspectives at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to explore the complex roles of gender in the developing world. Academic scholarship will be interwoven with practical experience as scholars, practitioners, organizers, and political leaders engage with one another in panel sessions on health, education, shifting populations, politics, and technology and media. Discussions will investigate intersections among these topics, crossing boundaries both conceptual and geographic.

The conference is presented in cooperation with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School.

Schedule

12 p.m.	Registration
1 p.m.	Welcome Barbara J. Grosz, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Brigitte Madrian, Senior Advisor to the Social Sciences Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, Harvard Kennedy School
1:10 p.m.	Artistic Performance: Siyabulela Lethuxolo Xuza '12
1:15 p.m.	Shifting Populations Panel Moderator: Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; President, Hunt Alternatives Fund; Chair, The Institute for Inclusive Security Panelists: Valerie M. Hudson, Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University “Sex Selective Abortion in Asia: Issues and Policies” Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California “Migration as Indentured Mobility: The Moral Regulation of Migrant Women” Amy O’Neill Richard, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, United States Department of State “The Feminization of Modern Slavery”
2:45 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m.	Health Panel Moderator: Paula A. Johnson, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Executive Director, Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology; Chief, Division of Women's Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital Panelists: Joyce Banda, Vice President, Malawi “Community-Based Responses to Improving Maternal Health in Malawi” Mirai Chatterjee, Coordinator of Social Security for Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), India “Acting on the Social Determinants of Health: Some Experiences of the Self-employed Women’s Association of India” Kirk R. Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health, University of California at Berkeley “The Hearth Kills More than the Sword”
4:30 p.m.	Reception

Friday, March 4

8 a.m.	Registration
9 a.m.	Welcome Back Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
9:10 a.m.	Artistic Performance
9:15 a.m.	Technology Panel Moderator: Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard College Professor and Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Panelists: Taryn Dinkelman, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University “Electrification and the Household” Robert Jensen, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Los Angeles “Information Technologies and Women's Status in India” Kristine Pearson, Founder and CEO, Lifeline Energy “Energy—the Missing Millennium Development Goal: Empowering Women Through Power”
10:45 a.m.	Break
11:05 a.m.	Artistic Performance: Harvard Sangeet
11:15 a.m.	Education Panel Moderator: Fernando M. Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Panelists: Thuwayba Al Barwani, Dean, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman “Education and the Redefinition of Women’s Empowerment and Development: The Case of Oman” Jishnu Das, Senior Economist in the Development Research Group, World Bank “Education and Gender: What Do We Know from Around the World?” Cecilia María Vélez, Former National Minister of Education, Colombia
12:45 p.m.	Lunch and time to visit Technology and Schlesinger exhibits
2:20 p.m.	Artistic Performance: Harvard Bhangra
2:30 p.m.	Politics Panel Moderator: Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aloisea Inyumba, Senator, Rwanda Parliament “Garnering Support for Gender Balance” Humaira Awais Shahid RI ’10, Journalist and Provincial Parliamentarian, Pakistan “Hunkering Down for the Long Haul”
4 p.m.	Summation Jacqueline Bhabha, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Director of Research, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Lecturer on Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; University Adviser on Human Rights Education to the Provost, Harvard University

Exhibitions

New Ideas, Old Challenges: Innovation and the Developing World
Through Friday, March 4, 2011, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard

Visit Byerly Hall to see a display of technological innovations that have already improved or could potentially improve the lives of women and men in the developing world. Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, faculty members, and conference participants have shared their exciting ideas about how to generate electricity, reduce environmental damage, preserve health, grow food, and other fundamental ways to improve the quality of life around the world. These ideas and inventions complement the conference. This display is a testament to the power of new and innovative approaches to address old and entrenched challenges facing people in the developing world. 

Our Bodies, Ourselves: The Collective Goes Global
Friday, February 25, 2011–Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647

In conjunction with “Driving Change, Shaping Lives: Gender in the Developing World,” the Schlesinger Library has mounted an exhibit called Our Bodies, Ourselves: The Collective Goes Global. It features the work of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and its critical role in the worldwide dissemination of what has been heralded as “the bible of women’s health,” Our Bodies, Ourselves. Our Bodies, Ourselves was first published in Boston more than 40 years ago and has sold over 4 million copies in more than 25 languages. Implicit in its original conception was the notion that Our Bodies, Ourselves was a work to be read, discussed, shared, and responded to—a process that proved to be transformative for many of its participants.

• Videos
• Post-conference Coverage
• Description
• Schedule
• Exhibitions
• Associated Events
• Speaker Biographies