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Drs. Evangelina
Holvino and Bridgette Sheridan will present their paper, “Social Identities
and Identity Politics: The Dilemmas of Working with Differences in Global
Contexts,” at the Gender, Work and Organization: 3rd International Interdisciplinary
Conference, to be held at Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K from June
25-27, 2003. Many organizations worldwide are grappling with both
the opportunities and the challenges of working with the differences that
arise in increasingly multicultural and diverse organizations. Holvino
and Sheridan will explore CGO’s practices and concepts for working with
differences in organizations by analyzing one of CGO’s own interventions
with a group of international organizations. The conference provides an
international forum for debate and analysis of gender relations, the organization
of gender and the gendering of organizations.
The 24th annual Simmons Leadership Conference held April 26, has garnered
press attention throughout the country, with its celebrity speakers and
high-energy discussions on business. The day-long event has received
media coverage in the following outlets:
Anchorage Daily News
Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ)
Boston Globe Brattleboro (VT)
Reformer CNNMoney Columbian (Vancouver, WA)
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Daily News-Record (Harrisonburg, VA)
Daily News Sunday (Milford, MA)
Daily News Tribune (Waltham, MA)
Daily Record (Morristown, NJ)
Daily Times Chronicle (Woburn, MA)
Detroit News Herald (Everett, MA)
Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, NJ)
Honolulu Advertiser
Houston Chronicle
Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, PA)
Kansas City Star
Lewiston (ID) Morning Tribune
Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland, ME)
Metrowest Sunday News (Framingham, MA)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
New York Times
News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
Record (Hackensack, NJ)
Record (Troy, NY)
Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
Sunday Eagle-Tribune (Lawrence, MA)
Sunday Herald News (Fall River, MA)
Sunday Sun Chronicle (Attleboro, MA)
Sunday Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Taunton (MA) Sunday Gazette
Times Daily (Florence, AL)
Trentonian (Trenton, NJ)
Tribune (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Tribune Review (Greensburg, PA)
The Tulsa World
Washington (D.C.) Times
WBZ-AM 1030 (Boston, MA)
Ellen O’Connor SOM ’77 has joined the Board of Trustees for Regis College,
Weston, MA. A 1967 graduate of Regis, O’Connor has more than 20 years
of experience in health care, economic development, and state and municipal
government. Currently vice-president for finance at Brown University,
O’Connor is also a board member of YouthBuild, Communities for People,
Inc., and Massachusetts Association for Mental Health.
The Carnegie Corporation recently awarded a $22,000 grant to the SOM’s
Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO). The grant supports the design
and delivery of three gender and organizational change modules in a workshop
for gender focal points of African universities in Accra, Ghana. Under
the leadership of CGO Director and Senior Research Faculty Evangelina
Holvino, Ed.D., the project will support the mandate of the Carnegie Corporation’s
International Development Program to augment women’s educational professional
opportunities in African higher educational institutions.
The SOM’s Center for Gender in Organizations Director and Senior Research
Faculty Evangelina Holvino, Ed.D., was quoted in the June/July issue of
Working Mother Magazine, a landmark issue focusing on “women of colors.”
In the article “A Delicate Balance: Real life at work for women of
color,” Holvino comments on the extent to which women of color can express
their values at work: “There is a cost in losing one’s identity. You have
to leave half of who you are outside [of work], not being able to access
the part of who you are in terms of cultural values.” Holvino serves on
the Advisory Board of Working Mother Media’s Women of Color Initiative.
Stacy Blake-Beard, Ph.D., SOM Professor and Research Faculty at the
Center for Gender in Organizations, continues to receive press coverage
for her research on the growing importance of women mentors. According
to Blake-Beard’s study, the number of women receiving mentoring assistance
from other women is rising, and this “may signal that more women are in
positions where they may act as mentors.” The mentoring research has most
recently appeared in the Billings (MT) Gazette, Blade (Toledo,
OH), Daily Press (Newport News, VA), Dominion Post (Morgantown,
WV), Inter-Mountain (Elkins, WV), The Record (Hackensack, NJ),
Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS),
Sunday Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO), and Valley Morning Star
(Harlingen, TX).
Blake-Beard was also mentioned in the May 2003 issue of Essence
Magazine. She gave tips on mentoring in the column “workingit” and
served on the advisory board of The ESSENCE 2003 Career Guide: Great Places
to Work.
The ground-breaking Teen Girls on Business Study by the Simmons School
of Management and The Committee of 200 (C200) was prominently featured
in the article “Getting girls into business: Women executives want to
attract youngsters,” appearing in the May 31 issue of San Francisco
Chronicle. The article covered the SOM/C200 seminar held specifically
for high-powered businesswomen in the San Francisco area on May 29. Sponsored
by the Charles Schwab Co, Inc. and held at its headquarters, the seminar’s
goal was to establish a dialog among women executives about ways to increase
awareness among teen girls as to the opportunities and benefits of a business
career. Also featured in the article was Judy Bornstein SOM ’96 and
Alumnae Association President, CFO of McCown De Leeuw and Co., who
helped organize the event. Bornstein shared that now is the time for women
executives to show young girls they have what it takes to be successful
in business.
The Teen Girls on Business Study was also mentioned in the article
“The Women of Tech,” appearing May 29 on BusinessWeek.com.
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