Women and housing- Discussion‏

What are the main concerns facing women and their land and housing
rights in your country, or generally in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia? I would like to invite you to take part in an online discussion
on this topic, created by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to
Adequate Housing. Please find more information about the project here: http://righttohousingdebates.org/
.

You can join the discussion in several easy steps:

- Please register here: http://righttohousingdebates.org/wp-login.php?action=register

- If you wish, you are welcome to introduce yourself here: http://righttohousingdebates.org/?pauta=english-welcome-introduce-yourself&lang=en

- Join the discussion and tell us what you think about women's land
and housing rights in your country, or generally Eastern Europe and
Central Asia: http://righttohousingdebates.org/?pauta=eastern-europe-and-central-asia-regional-discussion&lang=en
.

The discussion is of limited duration so I'd like to urge you to
register soon and use this unique opportunity to express your concerns
(but also ideas and recommendations) directly to the Rapporteur and
other activists in this field.

2011 Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation offers Scholarship for Women, USA

Scholarships for Graduate, Master and Doctoral Women Students  funded  by Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation in USA
Study Subject(s):Any
Course Level:Graduate, Master,Doctoral
Scholarship Provider: Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation
Scholarship can be taken at: USA
Eligibility:must be a woman
at least 17 years of age must be a mother.
-with minor children
-must be enrolled in a skills training, ESL.
-GED program.
-pursuing a technical/vocational degree, an associate’s degree, a first bachelor’s degree, or a professional/master’s/doctoral degree.
-must be enrolled in an accredited program during the 2010-2011 academic year
-must be low-income.
Scholarship Open for International Students: No
Scholarship Description: In 2011, the Foundation will offer five Education Support Awards of up to $2000 each to assist low-income women with children who are pursuing education or training. We will accept applications for 2011 Education Support Awards beginning on, but not before, May 15, 2011. Applications must be postmarked no later than July 15, 2011. Education Support Awards may be used for direct school expenses or for living expenses while you are enrolled in an educational program. Awardees will be notified by phone or email in October.
How to Apply: By Post
Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 July 2011
Further Scholarship Information and Application

Scholarship for Executive MBA Programme for Women at London Business School, UK

Masters Scholarship for Women  in Dubai and London for Executive MBA Programme at London Business School in UK

Study Subject(s):Management
Course Level:Masters
Scholarship Provider: London Business School
Scholarship can be taken at: London
Eligibility:Women who have applied for the September 2011 EMBA intake (London or Dubai) and who are fully self- funding
-Candidates may submit a scholarship application at the time of submitting their EMBA application, however essays will only be considered for the award if candidates have been offered and have accepted their place on the programme by the scholarship deadline.
Scholarship Open for International Students: No
Scholarship Description: The Executive MBA programme office is delighted to offer scholarship support for the September 2011 EMBA London or Dubai female participant who has best demonstrated leadership potential and commitment to support the ongoing success of the Executive MBA programme.
-This substantial scholarship of up to 50% of tuition fees will be deducted from the balance of the first year tuition fees for the programme.
How to Apply: Online
Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 June 2011
Further Scholarship Information and Application

2011 Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations

Applicants must be nationals of developing countries that are currently eligible to borrow from the World Bank.
Applicants should be pursuing research in one of the social sciences: anthropology, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics, political science, psychology, social work, or sociology, or in an interdisciplinary field that incorporates two or more of these disciplines.
To facilitate full engagement in the SAR intellectual community, applicants must demonstrate their fluency in English, such as through their record of professional interaction in written and spoken English.
Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes
Scholarship Description: One six-month fellowship is available for a female social scientist from a developing nation, either a PhD candidate or post-doctoral scholar, whose work addresses women’s economic and social empowerment in that nation. The goal of the program is two fold: to advance the scholarly careers of women social scientists from the developing world, and to support research that identifies causes of gender inequity in the developing world and that proposes practical solutions for promoting women’s economic and social empowerment.
How to Apply: By Post
Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 November 2011
Further Scholarship Information and Application

Lavon H. Cooper Scholarship for Women, USA

Available to graduates of Robbinsdale, MN School District 281, who have completed at least two years of post- high school education and have a minimum 3.0 GPA.Available to graduates of Robbinsdale, MN School District 281, who have completed at least two years of post- high school education and have a minimum 3.0 GPA.

Scholarship Description: New Hope Women of Today is part of the Minnesota Women of Today and United States Women of Today organizations, a non-profit organization dedicated to the betterment of our community. We are a diverse and energetic women’s group that prides itself on the involvement and leadership within our community. We are working women, homemakers, mothers, grandmothers, married and single women. We are women who want to make our communities a better place for all to live.
How to Apply: Online
Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 July 2011
Further Scholarship Information and Application

Horizons Foundation Awards for Women, USA

Women In Defense encourages women to pursue careers related to the national security and defense interests of the United States and to provide development opportunities to women already working in national security and defense fields. The scholarship is designed to provide financial assistance to further educational objectives of women who are U.S. citizens either employed or planning careers in defense or national security areas

-Be currently enrolled at an accredited university or college, either full-time or part- time.
-Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible
-Demonstrate interest in pursuing a career related to national security or defense.
-Demonstrate financial need.
-Have a minimum grade point average of 3.25.
-Be a woman.
-Be a citizen of the United States.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 July 2011
Further Scholarship Information and Application

Article: From Cyborg to Facebook: Technological dreams and feminist critiques Dead Line: 15 June 2011]‏

SOPHIA, the Belgian Bi-community Network for Gender Studies is
organizing a colloquium to investigate the latest developments in
theory and research on the many aspects of gender and technology from
a Feminist angle.
Women and technology don’t sleep in the same bed. The relation between
technological possibilities and gender is tense. ‘Technology’, the use
value of science, embodies power relations. Some see technology as a
tool for liberation, others see it as a trap of enslavement.
Donna Haraway’s vision of the Cyborg (1985) was a water shed. The idea
of the thinking but bodiless human has been a subject of wide ranging
debate for feminists, theoreticians and feminist activists ever since.
The cyborg makes us question the pure boundaries of gender and the
human as opposed to the animal and the machine. What does the body
mean if we can transcend the body? Would body-linked inequalities
disappear? Today, the bodiless and sexless voice is a reality thanks
to the communicative but commercialized possibilities of social media.
In Facebook people create their own (gender) identities. In the web
world of games and interaction, the cyborg can be a reality.
From a feminist perspective there has always been a love-hate
relationship between technology and feminist projects. Technology
seems to promise liberation from the confines of the corporal and the
duties of the everyday. The female body is often the basis of
inequality (bearing children, weak, and marked). Technology offers
freedom from reproduction, controlled reproduction, strength and
transformation. But at what price comes a cyborg liberation of the
mind from the body? While the debate is not new, ongoing technological
advances pose new issues. Technology ‘frees’ us from our sexed bodies
through reproductive technology, and through the faceless
communication of the internet. Yet at the same time it enslaves us in
an ever more incomprehensible net of global relations and consumer
requirements. You can’t leave home without your mobile, but you don’t
know how to fix it.Technology empowers, but excludes.
Sophia's colloquium welcomes papers on the relations between gender
and technologies from both theoretical and empirical standpoints and
will focus on the following themes:
1. Feminist visions on science and technology The state of the art in
thinking about the role of science and technology in gender relations,
global relations and the shape of feminist goals for the future.
2. The enhanced body after Haraway’s Cyborg? Thanks to the development
of biotechnologies, the ‘cyborg’ is no longer science-fiction but a
clinical reality. The question of enhancement is one of the most acute
in feminist bioethics. It is oriented towards a negation of the so
called ‘natural body’ and towards a Transhumanist overcoming of human
vulnerabilities, linked to biological determination.What are the
critical perspectives from a gender point of view? Can they be
articutlated in the perspective of political care?
3. Biology, bodies, technology and the nature-nurture debate Does
technology let us go beyond men and women? Does technology erase
borders between the sexes or strengthen them? This theme aims to
explore the role of technology and science in the debate about nature
and nurture and the differences between men and women as well as
in-between, considering the issues of trans- and inter-sexuality.
Particularly interesting for this theme are the implications of data
obtained by high tech methods including brain differences and genetic
codes for arguments about the biological origins of gender relations.
Bodily transformations and reparations, new gender identities,
extended reproduction capacities, are all available, but raise many
issues for research, feminist ethics and policy. Who decides about
reproductive and medical technologies and for whom are they developed?

4. Technology and gender in everyday life Communication,
transportation, care, cooking, cleaning, and housework have all been
changed by new technologies such as the microwave, GSM, and internet.
Technology is now an intimate part of everyday life in households and
interlaces with the workplace. Has this produced more gender equality
and new gender relationships in terms of paid and unpaid care and
work? Does the extended technological everyday potential of the rich
world lead to gender liberation globally or increasing inequality. How
does the increased impact on expectations? Do the developments provide
more gender?
5.Communication, technology and gender: (New) media and gender What is
the gender landscape of Facebook, Wikipedia, blogging and other
participatory new social network media? While the cyborg was a
theoretical idea, the social media are primarily a commercialized
bodiless potential. What do gender scholars make of the alleged
democratization of visual media through YouTube and other
participatory media? How gendered are video games and the online games
and what are their implications for gender relations?
6. Technology and the expression of Gender in culture The cyborg is no
longer fiction. Film, art, literature, music and culture go ‘beyond
gender’ as technology creates increasingly ‘real’ gender blends in
film with Avatars, Arthur and minimoyss, in strips and games that
over-sex their figures. Technology and thinking about the potential of
technology has changed gender relations in music, literature, film,
popular and media culture, and art production and distribution. Papers
in this section examine the latest developments.
7. Technology and gendered power Does technology keep women out of
power? What do the heteronormative technological developments mean for
gender relations world-wide? To what extent are the continued lack of
skills in the technology a contributing cause to the under
representation of women in management, the economy; and global
economic governance? How does the absence of women contribute to the
choices of what technologies are developed? What is the role of high
technologies in creating and maintaining new forms of gender
inequality?What impact do scientific women have on technological
choices and what new technologies come from women? The range of
contributions for this subject is wide.
8. Technology policy and the academy What impact has the policy to
increase women in science had? Do different gender relations in
laboratories change technological research decisions? What is the role
of educational approaches in changing the position of women in the
hard sciences and the decisions made in science policy? European
policy aims to increase the presence of women in science. What
difference would this make?
9. Technology, heteronormativity and the erotic What about the erotic
fascination of technological toys for technosexuals? To what extent is
the heteronormativity in technology responsible for choices men make
in research topics and technologies that get developed or not (fast
cars but no good vacuum cleaner, phallically formed rockets)? What is
the role of new media and new social media in expanding (violent)
sexual repertoires?
Scientific board: Mylene Baum-Botbol (UCL), Sander De Ridder (CIMS,
UGhent), Nathalie Grandjean (FUNDP), Stéphanie Loriaux (ULB/Sophia),
Marta Roca I Escoda (Université Autonome de Barcelone/ ULB), Sarah
Sepulchre (UCL/Sophia), Femke Snelting (constant vzw), Patricia
Vendramin (FUNDP/Fondation Travail-Université), Alison Woodward
(VUB/Sophia).
Abstracts of 300 words with an indication of the choice of theme
section should be sent to info@sophia.be for the 15th of June 2011.
They should include name(s) of author, affiliation (university or
organisation) and contact information (e-mail, phone, post adress).
Abstracts may be submitted in English, French or Dutch.
All questions can be addressed to info@sophia.be. Telephone contacts
during office hours at 0032 (0)2 229 38 69.

Women and Politics in South East Europe, Wien, 18 May 2011, 18h‏

Das Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa (IDM)
und das Renner-Insitut
laden Sie herzlich ein zur Diskussion
Women and Politics in South East Europe
Rada Boriæ, Director and Co-founder of the Centre for Women's Studies Zagreb, Croatia
Marija Æatoviæ, Mayor of the Municipality of Kotor, Montenegro
Samra Filipoviæ-Hadžiabdiæ, Director of the Gender Equality Agency, Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aleksandra Vidanoviæ, Executive Director of the Junior Achievement in Serbia, Belgrade
Termin
18. Mai, 18.00 Uhr
Ort
Albert Schweitzer-Haus, Schwarzspanierstraße 13, 1090 Wien

University of Central Lancashire International PhD Scholarship: Women in Education, UK

University of Central LancashireInternational PhD Scholarships,  School of Education & Social Sciences on Women in Education , UK
Study Subject: Women in education: a case for faith schools
Employer: The University of Central Lancashire
Level:PhD
Scholarship Description: Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the School of Education & Social Sciences. The scholarship is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject to satisfactory progress] and is open to international applicants only. UK/EU applicants are not eligible to apply. The scholarship will provide £15000 towards the cost of the International tuition fee over 3 years.  This project will examine the role, position and experience of female teachers within faith schools. In the last twenty years, the position of woman within religion has been investigated by feminist researchers, theologians and sociologists. Franke (2001) argues that the focus of feminist researchers falls into one of several categories, these are: the development of goddess cults, new religions, women as religious leaders, feminist representations of the divine, the body, sexuality and reproduction and female empowerment within religion. Whilst the role of women within religion has been examined, this has not been extended to the role of female educators as women of faith. This project will explore the roles carried out by women in various faiths, and in particular the roles they may take in religious education and faith schools. It will seek to address the issues of women as faith educators and potential faith leaders via qualitative methodologies.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011
Further Scholarship Information and Application

2011 Scholarship for Young Woman in Public Affairs Awards in USA

2011 Scholarship for Young Woman in Public Affairs Awards by Zonta International in USA

Award for Women in Public Affairs by Zonta International in USA-2011
Study Subject:Public Affairs
Employer: Zonta International
Level:Pre-university or Pre-college
Scholarship Description:Established in 1990 by Past International President Leneen Forde, the Young Women in Public Affairs Award honors young women in secondary level or pre-university schools, ages 16 to 19, who demonstrate a commitment to leadership in public policy, government and volunteer organizations. The program operates at the Zonta club, district and international levels. Zonta clubs provide awards for club recipients, and district and international awards are funded by the Zonta International Foundation. District recipients receive US$1,000, and five international recipients are selected from the district recipients to receive awards of US$3,000 each.
Women of any nationality, who are pre-university or pre-college students (ages 16-19) living or studying in a Zonta district/region at the time of application and demonstrate evidence of:
* Active commitment to volunteerism
* Experience in local or student government
* Volunteer leadership achievements
* Knowledge of Zonta International and its programs
* Advocating in Zonta International’s mission of advancing the status of women worldwide
The application must start with a Zonta club. All application materials must be received at a Zonta club by the printed deadline. Zonta clubs select one application to send to the Zonta governor.
Scholarship Application Deadline:1 July 2011.
Further Scholarship Information and Application