A Brief Snapshot of Women’s Impact on the Labor Movement in WNY and Beyond
Women have played a key role throughout history in labor movements and securing workers’ rights in this country. It is a role often completely ignored or at best underplayed. On today’s episode of WATT we are joined by three woman who have had a profound impact on labor movements in WNY and beyond: Catherine Creighton is the Director of Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations Buffalo Co-Lab; Jaz Brisack is a barista at the Elmwood Starbucks in Buffalo, [...]
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Advancing gender justice through experiential learning models with Dr. Mara Huber
What is experiential learning and how can this model of student engagement be one of the most promising approaches to solving some of the world’s most complex problems? Join me for a convention with experiential learning guru Dr. Mara Huber and three of her students to learn more about Huber’s innovative models that center on the idea of students adding value to problem solving. According to Huber, students- or non-licensed or degreed individuals- have something that has worth or significance. [...]
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The Current State of Intimate Partner / Domestic Violence with Clinical Professor Judith Olin, The Family Violence and Women’s Rights Clinic
According to the CDC: A woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. It is the number- one cause of injury to American women; of the two million injured annually, more than half a million of those injuries require medical attention while about 145,000 require overnight hospitalization. Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. In 2019 Erie County experienced 14 domestic violence related homicides. On today’s episode of WATT, we will explore [...]
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The Changing Workplace Landscape
How will the workplace be reimagined? What will leadership and power look like? And what role will 21st century feminism play in shaping this landscape? The pandemic, a reckoning with structural and institutional racism and the great resignation have all disrupted and redefined the workplace. While all women have felt the impact of these circumstances in specific ways, including an unprecedented number leaving the workplace as a result of the pandemic, Black woman and Women of Color have felt the [...]
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A look back and forward | women’s suffrage, the current state of feminism, and the relevancy of celebratory months with Victoria W. Wolcott, PhD
March is Women’s History Month. Did You Know Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. The movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women’s [...]
Navigating patriarchy, privilege, and positional power.
While the 19th Amendment secured a woman’s right to vote over 100 years ago and women have outpaced men in receiving college degrees, we are still woefully underrepresented in some of the most established spaces of power. Woman must still contend with persistent patriarchy in addition to the impact of COVID-19, with droves of women leaving the out of home workforce. What does this all mean for the future of women and feminism?
In this lively roundtable discussion, you will hear woman share their stories on how they navigate the entrenched systems of male privilege and patriarchy and utilize their positional power to effect social change.
Hosted by Karen King PhD has served as an adjunct graduate faculty member at Buffalo State College and in the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo. Additionally, she has developed and taught courses and conducted numerous workshops on popular media culture, social justice advocacy and anti-racist feminist theory.
She serves on the New York State Council for Women and Girls, the Executive Committee of the University at Buffalo Gender Institute, the boards of the YWCA of WNY, the Minority, Women Business Enterprise Utilization Advisory Board and PowHer NY.
Dr. King is the Commissioner of Public Advocacy for Erie County and the Executive Director of the Erie County Commission the Status of Women.
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