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Mill Valley: Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

February 25, 2014 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

$69.00

Debora Spar | President of Barnard College and author of several books including “Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection”

 

As the president of arguably the most important all-women school in the country, Debora Spar brings research, wisdom, humor and insight to the heated debate about how women’s lives have and have not changed over the past forty years. How far have women really come? And what will it take to get true equality for good? Can women really have it all?

Debora Spar is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and received her doctorate in government from Harvard. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and currently serves as a trustee of the Nightingale-Bamford School and a director at Goldman Sachs. Prior to coming to Barnard, Spar was the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration and had served as senior associate dean for faculty research and development at Harvard Business School. At Harvard she taught courses on the politics of international business, comparative capitalism, and economic development.

Since her arrival at Barnard, President Debora Spar has been a vocal proponent of women’s education and leadership, spearheading initiatives that include the Athena Center for Leadership Studies, an interdisciplinary center devoted to the theory and practice of women’s leadership, and Barnard’s Global Symposium series, an annual gathering of high-profile and accomplished female leaders held each year in a different region of the world.

A political scientist by training, Spar’s scholarly research focuses on issues of international political economy, examining how rules are established in new or emerging markets and how firms and governments together shape the evolving global economy. She is the author of numerous books, including Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Invention, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet (2001) and The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception (2006). Her next book, Wonder Women: Sex, Power and the Quest for Perfection, will be published in September 2013.

Debora is married to Miltos Catomeris, an architect whose specialty is academic, institutional and corporate campuses. They are the parents of three children.

Websites: www.wonderwomenthebook.com

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Date:
February 25, 2014
Time:
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cost:
$69.00
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Website:
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Venue

Milll Valley Community Center Cascde Room
180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA 94941, USA
Mill Valley, California 94941 United States
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