The next event in the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium will be held this Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. in Shriver Hall Auditorium. The former President of the National Organization of Women, Patricia Ireland will be speaking on the issue "What's Sex Got to do with it?: The Gender Gap in America." Ireland's speech will be one of many scheduled speakers in this year's symposium, "The Great American Experiment: A Juxtaposition of Capitalism and Democracy."
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the most successful feminist organization in the United States. As President for ten consecutive years, Ireland worked to organize NOW activists to defend a woman's right to chose on the issue of abortion, to elect more women to political office, and to bring feminist issues to the forefront of political debates. Ireland has also authored a book, What Women Want.
Ireland's speech at Hopkins will focus on the position of women in the ever-changing American Democracy. Specifically, the MSE Web site poses the question, "what does this mean for women as we move into a period of greater unemployment, greater economic disenfranchisement and an ever expanding war economy?"
For more information on the Symposium visit their Web site at http://www.jhu.edu/mse, or for more information about the National Organization of Women visit http://www.now.org. Doors will open at 7 p.m., the event will begin at 8 p.m.
