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...Gender at the Millennium" is co-sponsored by the Women in Public Policy program at the Kennedy School and by Radcliffe College, and funding for the events if being provided by a variety of organizations. Pellegrini says she sees this cooperation as an indication of progress...
...This suggests that there are now a range of sites, across the university, where women's issues and the study of gender have been institutionalized," she says. "This wonderful array of programs in women's and gender studies at Radcliffe College and Harvard University is a sign of how much has been accomplished in the decade since Women's Studies became an undergraduate program...
Though the speakers and organizers of the event stressed the importance of opening a dialogue on all issues as the millennium approaches, they all said it is particularly vital to explore gender issues at this point in history...
...There has been so much conversation about the millennium and it seems an obvious introduction to be made of gender at the millennium," added Afsaneh Najmabadi, a professor of women's studies at Barnard College, who will address feminism in Islamic movements at the final panel. "Yet it is a reminder that we continue even at the millennium to bring gender as an after-thought into the discussion...
...millennium has traditionally been a time to reconsider what is happening socially," said Jakobsen, who will discuss gender and religion in the last panel. "[It] is a crucial time...