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Dear GW at MIT Members,

We are organizing some exciting new events in the fall, and we hope to see
you there!

On October 20th, join us for a panel discussion with Sloan women students
on *Women in the Workplace* to learn about the different career paths that
women have taken and the challenges along the way.

On November 3rd, we will be tackling the challenging issue of sexual
harassment in higher education and the workplace with a discussion with
several MIT representatives, professors and students on the problems,
resources and possible solutions.

Make sure to follow us on the links above.
- The GW at MIT Board
Events In Brief
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*GW at MIT:*
1. Women in the Workplace Panel (Oct 20)
2. Stop! Sexual Harassment in Higher Education and the Workforce (Nov 3)
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*MIT:*
3. Poetry Reading: Fanny Howe & Nicole Terez Dutton (Oct 16 & 17)
4. Film screening: Norma Rae + Clean In (Oct 17)
5. Film Festival: No Man's Land (Oct 17)
6. Lecture: State of the Arab Family and the Family of the Arab State (Oct
18)
7. WGS Intellectual Forum: Meral Ekincioglu (Oct 19)
8. Cheney Room Grad Luncheon with MIT GAIN and the Work-Life Center (Oct 20)
9. Become a Women's Initiative co-director! (Oct 26)
10. Growing Up in Science: a conversation with Gigliola Staffilani
11. Work-Life Center Fall Seminar Series (Fall '17)
12. Fellowship Opportunity (Fall '17)
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*Outside MIT:*
13. International Symposium on Education and Gender Equality (Oct 20-21)
14. Horizons Fellowship Applications Open (now)
Women in History Margaret Hamilton
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*Margaret Heafield Hamilton* (born 1936) is an American computer scientist,
systems engineer, and business owner. She is most notable for being the
Director of Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation
Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the *Apollo space
program*.

At MIT she assisted in the creation of the core principles in computer
programming as she worked with her colleagues in writing code for the
world's first portable computer. Hamilton's innovations go beyond the feats
of playing an important role in getting humans to the moon. She, along with
many other female engineers, challenged the male dominated technology field
of their time, to allow women to enter in STEM fields for many years to
come.
GWAMIT Events

*1. Women in the Workplace Panel*
*When: *October 20, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
*Where:* R&D Pub, 4th Floor 32-G410, 32 Vassar Street, MIT
*RSVP:* Link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-the-workplace-tickets-38995543721?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_button>


Graduate Women at MIT (GW at MIT) and Sloan EMBA Women will host a joint event
with a panel and networking session to discuss challenges faced by women in
the workplace and strategies to promote gender parity and work-life balance
in a variety of professions.

You may find short bios of the EMBA women here
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/12f4dfoxzfqbh1f/EMBA18%20Women%20Bios_GWAMIT.pdf?dl=0>
.
Please share the questions you want to ask the EMBA women here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPX1ln43OOVWE9CelrS4aa4Wq1dieT6RIaxc6aBGO2I2QwZQ/viewform?usp=sf_link>
.

Heavy appetizers and one free drink ticket will be provided to each
attendee! Register using the link provided above, and we look forward to
joining you there!
*2. Stop! Sexual Harassment in Higher Education and the Workforce*
*When: *November 3, 12:0o PM - 1:30 PM
*Where:* W20-306, Twenty Chimneys, Stratton Student Center, MIT
*RSVP:* Link
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stop-sexual-harassment-in-higher-education-and-the-workforce-tickets-38880074349?utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_button>

We welcome you to be part of a discussion on the matter of sexual
harassment in higher education and the workforce. Representatives from the
MIT Title IX and Bias Response, Ombud's and Violence Prevention and
Response (VPR) offices, professors and fellow students will share their
perspectives on how to deal with difficult situations, drawing from their
personal and work experience.

Submit questions <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q39MSKJ> NOW that you want
to be discussed at the panel anonymously on SurveyMonkey. Lunch will be
served!
MIT Events

*3. Poetry Reading: Fanny Howe & Nicole Terez Dutton *
*When: *October 16 & 17, 7:00 PM
*Where:* 56-154

Nicole Terez Dutton: October 16, 7:00 PM

Nicole Terez Dutton’s work has appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, 32
Poems, Indiana Review and Salt Hill Journal. Nicole earned an MFA from
Brown University and has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work
Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts. Her collection of poems, If One Of Us Should Fall, was
selected as the winner of the 2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She lives in
Somerville, Massachusetts where she served as the city’s inaugural poet
laureate. She teaches in the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program and is an
editor at The Baffler and Transition Magazine.

Fanny Howe: October 17, 7:00 PM

Fanny Howe’s most recent collection of poetry is Second Childhood from
Graywolf Press. She was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 2014 for
that book and for the International Man Booker Award, 2015, for her
fiction. Her newest book, The Needle’s Eye, was published by Graywolf in
November 2016. She taught at MIT and UCSD where she is Professor Emerita,
and lives in New England.
*4. Film Screening: Organizing Women - Norma Rae + Clean In*
*When: *October 17, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
*Where:* 6-120
1st film in the WGS film series: Organizing Women. Norma Rae introduced by
Moira Weigel and an additional short documentary about the organizing of
hotel workers at the Harvard-owned hotel, with a cameo appearance by Drew
Faust and Sheryl Sandberg, Clean In. Pizza at 6:45.
*5. Film Festival: No Man's Land*
*When: *October 17, 7:30 PM
*Where:* 26-100
*Tickets:* $5 for MIT students, purchase here <http://mitoc.mit.edu/#pay>

MITOC and MIT LSC are pleased to bring you* No Man's Land Film Festival.*
It is an all-female adventure film festival based out of the Rocky
Mountains of Colorado that meets a need and desire to highlight and connect
women in pursuit of the radical. They are a collaboration and celebration
of men and women who are deeply engaged in enhancing the female presence in
the adventure arena. The goal of this these collected films is to connect
like-minded individuals who are action-oriented, wish to support a shared
vision of gender equality, have a desire to experience their passions and
environments through a uniquely female lens, and above all, love adventure.
Along with cultivating a deep interest in exploring the vastness of our
planet from a female point of view, No Man's Land strives to create a
history of motivating audiences to implement and inspire change.

No Man's Land aims to redefine feminine in adventure and sport through film.
Check out the trailer <https://vimeo.com/230848800> for their 2017 flagship
festival.
*6. Lecture: State of the Arab Family and the Family of the Arab State*
*When: *October 18, 5 PM
*Where:* 3-370
Biannual McMillan-Stewart lecture on Women in the Developing World: with *Suad
Joseph* presenting “State of the Arab Family and the Family of the Arab
State”
*7. WGS Intellectual Forum: Meral Ekincioglu*
*When: *October 19, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
*Where:* 14E-304
*RSVP for lunch:* wgs at mit.edu

Dr. Meral Ekincioglu, visiting scholar at the MIT HTC (2014-2016), will
present:
"*The Grand Flirtation: Feminist Operation of Architecture at Princeton
University in the 1960s - the 1970s*"

Focusing on some recent scholarly debates on feminist practice in
architecture history and the crucial potential of inclusion, equity and
diversity in architecture education, the profession and practice with a new
urgency under the current political climate, in her presentation, she will
examine the historical context of the admission of women architecture
students to Princeton University, a historically masculine space known as
the “Old-Boy’s School” and its early figures. Keeping the architecture’s
ongoing struggles with diversity, equity and inclusion in spite of an
explosion of scholarship on gender and race in this field in mind, she aims
to invite to rethink about the importance of the feminist practice in the
field as a way of critically constructing the knowledge of gender, race and
ethnicity within a multiple perspective and how to integrate them into
(global and multicultural) architecture history.
*8. Cheney Room Grad Lunch with MIT GAIN and the Work-Life Center*
*When: *October 20, 12:15 PM
*Where:* 3-310


Save the date for the October 20th Graduate Lunch at the Cheney Room,
featuring MIT GAIN and the MIT WORK-LIFE CENTER! All women-identified and
non-binary grad students (and partners/significant others) welcome! Lunch
provided courtesy of Cafe Luna. Partners/significant others welcome!
*9. Become a Women's Initiative co-director!*
*Deadline: *October 26, 11:59 PM
*Apply:* Link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJ3Jn09qjkOceIMtb5SGAdhyT3HJ7-zHZDpqIg0UTJ3xo5Cw/viewform>
*Contact: *wi-directors at mit.edu

Women comprise only 24% of science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM) professionals. The MIT Women's Initiative is a student group that
aims to address the gender discrepancy in STEM.

Each IAP, our club travels to under-privileged school districts in the
United States to give presentations about STEM to middle and high school
girls. Locations have included Washington, Hawaii, Miami, Alaska, and San
Francisco. Co-directors get first pick on location!

Read more about us on our website <http://web.mit.edu/wi/>.
*10. Growing Up in Science: a conversation with Gigliola Staffilani*
*When: *October 26, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
*Where:* 32-123
*Contact:* growing-up-in-science at mit.edu
Have you ever wondered what your advisor was like as a graduate student?
What they struggled with? What they are struggling with now? This
conversation series is not about science, but about becoming and being a
scientist.

How do you deal with your own and others' expectations, and with impostor
syndrome? How do you keep yourself motivated? Prof. Gigliola Staffilani
(MIT Math) will share her personal stories and invite you to join the
conversation.

Pizza will be provided following the event.
*11. MIT Work-Life Center Fall Seminar Series*
*When:* Various dates, Fall 2017
*Where: *Koch Institute
*Event link: *link <http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars>
The MIT Work-Life Center’s popular Seminar Series provides research-based
strategies, tips, and information to help you deal with a diverse array of
work-life issues.


Registration <http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/seminars> is required for all
seminars, briefings, and discussion groups. All programs are free of charge
and open to all members of the MIT community, including students, staff,
faculty, and their partners and families.
*12. MIT List Visual Arts Center: Fellowship Opportunity*
*When:* Now
Apply: eagarner at mit.edu

The List Visual Arts Center, MIT’s contemporary art museum, collects,
commissions, and presents rigorous, provocative, and artist-centric
projects that engage MIT and the global art community. The Center is
pleased to offer a fellowship position to assist with all details in
organizing a two-day symposium.

The working topic for the *2018 Wasserman Forum* will be *Future Genders*
and looking at how gender identity is being addressed by artists today. The
List Center is seeking a candidate that has a demonstrated interest in
gender issues as they are presented through contemporary visual arts.  The
Wasserman Forum Assistant will work in conjunction with the List Center
Staff in conceptualizing the panels for the Forum, and undertake
organizational duties such as and not limited to speaker contracts,
obtaining and editing speaker bios, handling travel needs, assisting in all
aspects of hospitality for Forum participants, preparing press materials,
coordinating volunteers for the Forum, and determining and ordering all
amenities for the event. The Wasserman Forum Assistant will also be
expected to be on hand for the entire duration of the forum planned for
November 2018.

*Job Requirements*
Applicants must possess a bachelor’s degree in art history, women’s and
gender studies, or a related field with a preference of being enrolled in a
graduate degree program. Applicants also must be authorized to work in the
US. To apply, please submit a letter of interest, a resume, and the names
of two professional and/or academic references to Emily A. Garner,
eagarner at mit.edu.
Events Outside MIT

*13. International Symposium on Education and Gender Equality*
*When:* October 20-21, 2017
*Where*: Wellesley College, Boston
*Website:* Lin <https://educationandgenderequality.com/>k
<https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/institutional-diversity/initiatives/young-scholars-conference>
*– Free and open to all –*

A wide range of intellectuals, scholars, artists, activists, and others
from business and government, coming from the United States, France, India,
Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Congo, Haiti… will share their experiences
regarding the challenge of gender equality in their respective fields of
work and service. Our aim in bringing together this diverse, international
group is to offer an opportunity for collective thought in order to offer
solutions and allow for the sharing of good practices across disciplines
and contexts. The symposium has built in many opportunities for the
audience to mingle and interact with speakers and with one another.

Among them: the famous writer and civil rights activist *Angela Davis*, the
great Indian-American Filmmaker and Film Producer *Mira Nair*, the former
French Ministers *Christiane Taubira* and *Najat Vallaud-Belkacem*, the *former
Prime Minister of Senegal Aminata Touré*… and many others!

Register at the website link provided above!
*14. The Horizons Fellowship *
*When:* Now
*Website:* link <http://www.joinhorizons.com/fellowship>
The Horizons Fellowship supports 200 outstanding university students on a
fully-funded experience in San Francisco, in their pursuit to become
leaders in technology. Our programs provide immersive software engineering
and web/mobile development courses geared towards high-achieving college
students. Students need not have a computer science background!

Horizons students have gone on to receive offers from firms such as Google,
Slack, Yelp, Amazon, BCG, Visa, J.P. Morgan, and more. Past Horizonites
have come from a variety of schools and backgrounds. Applicants have hailed
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Princeton, Yale,
UPenn/Wharton, Columbia, Northwestern, Brown, Michigan and more.

Interested students can start an application here
<http://www.joinhorizons.com/fellowship>!

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