Women's Issues (Video)

Women who fought for the right to vote were struggling for nothing less than access to full citizenship. Ellen DuBois, UCLA professor of history and gender studies, emphasized the larger vision women held in the struggle for women's suffrage. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 33134]

In her keynote address to the No More, No More Silence conference, San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan reports on California’s efforts to help victims of human trafficking and to teach others how to protect themselves from potential predators, especially those whom they assume they can trust. She is introduced by Chancellor Pradeep Khosla and Naila Chowdhury, the director of Social I...

Tatiana Huezo, the director and writer of "Tempestad," talks with UCSB Professor of Film and Media Studies Cristina Venegas about the documentary that traces the emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico. Heuzo's filmography as director, writer, cinematographer, and editor includes documentary films and fictional short films. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Hum...

Founded by the late Sally Ride, Tam O'Shaughnessy and three others to inspire young girls and boys to consider careers in STEM, Sally Ride Science is now housed at UC San Diego, offering opportunities for middle and high school students to embrace science in fun settings. Featured here is the Sally Ride Science Junior Academy, where students from throughout San Diego participate in creative worksh...

Author and Boston University law professor Pnina Lahav discusses her forthcoming biography, "Golda Meir: Through the Gender Lens." She explores the first and only woman prime minister of Israel, and her complex relationship with her role as a female leader in a man’s world. During the course of her legal career, Pnina Lahav has published nearly 50 journal articles and three books, including the cr...

Celebrate the launch of the Women Waging Peace Network at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego as emcee and US Ambassador Swanee Hunt leads a panel of peacemakers marking the success of the more than 1,000 women from around the world who have joined together to serve as negotiators, experts, advocates, policy makers, and other roles crucially needed in peace proc...

Drawing on her own experience growing up in the caste system in India, Sudha Shetty channels her compassion for others into research and advocacy for victims of domestic violence. Series: "Public Policy and Society" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 32599]

Award-winning documentary Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen centers on the stories of six thoughtful, eloquent and diverse transmen. Director Kortney Ryan Ziegler joins Jennifer Tyburczy (Feminist Studies, UCSB) to discuss the film. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 32541]

Dante Alencastre, director of Raising Zoey, talks with Abigaíl Salazar of the UCSB Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity about this docuemntary that follows Zoey's transition. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 32540]

Actress Mya Taylor joins Patrice Petro to discuss Tangerine, a critically-acclaimed indie comedy about transgender prostitutes working in a not-so glamorous part of Hollywood. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 32539]

Cornell University Professor Amy Villarejo, author of "Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire", joins Carsey-Wolf Center Director Patrice Petro for a discussion of transgender emergence as well as Jewishness and queerness within this highly-acclaimed popular television series. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 32538]

The documentary Free CeCe confronts the culture of violence surrounding transwomen of color. Director Jacqueline (Jac) Gares and Documentary Subject CeCe McDonald discuss the process of making the film with Lal Zimman, UCSB Department of Linguistics. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 32542]

Drawing on her own experience growing up in the caste system in India, Sudha Shetty channels her compassion for others into research and advocacy for victims of domestic violence. Series: "Public Policy and Society" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 32601]

Drawing on her own experience growing up in the caste system in India, Sudha Shetty channels her compassion for others into research and advocacy for victims of domestic violence and child abduction. As she describes here in a conversation with Henry E. Brady, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, Shetty has helped judges and others in the legal community protect women and ch...

NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller explores how gender issues are handled in the fields of security and defense. She notes that even well-supported institutional efforts to increase awareness and training often fall short of the mark and offers suggestions on how to make them more effective. Gottemoeller is presented by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the Universit...

Women who are elected to Congress perform better, on average, than their male counterparts, according to research conducted by political scientist Sarah Anzia of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. They secure more federal funding for their districts, sponsor or co-sponsor more legislation and are seen as more collaborative with fellow members. But why are there so few in Congress?...

A panel of UCSB alumni working in the technical, creative, and producing areas discuss career paths both "above and below the line" for women in the entertainment industry. Panelists include: Entertainment publicist and Film and Media Studies alum, Brittany Sandler (moderator), Brittany Vu (Film and Television Development at MASproduction), Laura Foody (Entertainment Lawyer at Anonymous Content),...

This panel of women with successful careers in media looks at some of today's leading women writers, directors, and producers. Panelists include: Starshine Roshell (moderator), Jane Espenson (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Once Upon a Time, Warehouse 13), and Anne Cofell Saunders (Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Chuck, The Small Ship, Revolution). Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Public Affairs] [Humani...

Tina Nova, President and CEO of Molecular Stethoscope, Inc, wows an auditorium full of high school girls with stories of leaving her small town as a teenager for a life in science, entrepreneurship, and betting big on the future. Spoiler Alert: She succeeded! Nova was the keynote presentation for “Women in Biotech,” sponsored by the STEAM Leadership Series. Series: "STEAM: Adding Arts to STEM Educ...

Heartily dismissing negative stereotypes of scientists, biotech entrepreneur Tina Nova and Salk Institute professor Janelle Ayres rocked an auditorium full of high school girls with stories of how hard work and confidence led to their joyful lives and satisfying careers in science. Following these two keynotes, Ayres joined Salk senior scientist Carol Marchetto and Natalie Calatayud and Kaitlin Cr...

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Berkeley’s Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Professor of Business Administration and Economics, for a discussion of inequality. Professor Tyson traces her academic career and her work in Washington where she served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Clinton Administration. After comparing the Washington political environment during the Clinton an...

Economic growth around the world is influenced by who is in the workforce and what they are paid. Women’s participation and compensation are shifting under the influence of social and economic trends at the national level and on a global scale. UC Berkeley Professor Laura Tyson shares some of her own experiences, observations, and analysis as she makes a case for greater gender parity for economic...

The 114th Congress convenes in 2015 with just one fifth of the 535 House and Senate seats being filled by women -- a fact that causes UC Berkeley public policy graduate student Suzanne Merkelson to question whether half of the US population is being adequately represented on Capitol Hill. Series: "Public Policy and Society" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29119]

Karima Bennoune, Professor of International Law at UC Davis and author of “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here,” gives the keynote talk for the “Defying Extremism” conference focusing on how moderate Muslims, women and their allies can stand up to violent extremism. Bennoune is presented as part of the Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series at the Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of...

Award-winning historian Wendy Lower discusses the lives and experience of German women in the Nazi killing fields. Her study chillingly debunks the age-old myth of the German woman as mother and breeder, removed from the big world of politics and war. The women Lower labels “furies” humiliated their victims, plundered their goods, and often killed them, and like many of their male counterparts, th...