{"id":885,"date":"2008-06-05T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2008-06-05T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T21:20:00","slug":"stirring-it-up-ncrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/06\/05\/stirring-it-up-ncrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Stirring It Up @ NCRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SEiaOinn_7I\/AAAAAAAABg4\/YD8sSBD9Hhg\/s1600-h\/0604081945.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SEiaOinn_7I\/AAAAAAAABg4\/YD8sSBD9Hhg\/s200\/0604081945.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Last night I went to a 90th birthday party for NCRW\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founding president Mariam Chamberlain (pictured here, in blur, being toasted by a current Mariam Chamberlain Fellow).  I felt the love, and I waxed nostalgic for my days doing program work for this amazing network.<\/p>\n<p>And now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m here at the opening plenary of NCRW\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual conference, in the Kimmel Center just south of Washington Square Park, the conference I used to plan. <\/p>\n<p>The room is packed.  NCRW president Linda Basch takes the podium noting that this year, an election year, they are focusing on what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re calling The Big Five: economic security, education, immigration, violence, and health.  She talks about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that pernicious 16\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the 16% of women in corporate officer positions, the 16 women in Congress.  (And I just learned  that women are also 16% of the military, 16% of police and fire departments, and 16% of law firm partners.  Eerie, that same number each time.  What up?!)<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Stimpson (aka Kate to friends), Dean of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences at NYU and former NCRW board chair, had emergency dental surgery yesterday but is looking sharp.  She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up there doing the host\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s welcome, speaking of this network\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sense of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gritty realism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unreasonable hope.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Next comes NCRW Board Chair Eleanor Horne, who reminds the crowd of our need to remind everyone not here that even though a woman ran for prez not all is hunky dory.  She asks participants to not just \u00e2\u20ac\u0153confer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d here these next few days, but to go out and act.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Mason, Director of Research and Policy Initiatives at NCRW, who I know has been eating breathing and sleeping (or rather, not sleeping) this conference for the last year is last, and now here we go.  The next bunch of posts are snippets from the opening plenary, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stir It Up: Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Activism Reframing Political Debates.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to a 90th birthday party for NCRW\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founding president Mariam Chamberlain (pictured here, in blur, being toasted by a current Mariam Chamberlain Fellow). I felt the love, and I waxed nostalgic for my days doing program work for this amazing network. And now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m here at the opening plenary of NCRW\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21328,431],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}