TU Women and Business Lecture Series

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This fall, the College of Business Administration and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Tulsa are co-sponsoring a "Women and Business Lecture Series." The first speaker in this series is Dr. Angel Kwolek-Folland, Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean for Centers, Institutes and International Affairs at the University of Florida.  The lecture, entitled "Dignity and Daily Bread: Women and the Global Economy in the 21st Century" will take place at 7:00 PM on Monday, September 11, 2006 in the Faculty Study of the McFarlin Library on the campus of the University of Tulsa.

Around the world, women play an important economic role--as workers, as consumers, as managers, as professionals, and as entrepreneurs. Yet their status often does not reflect that importance. Professor Kwolek-Folland will survey the economic position of women around the world, emphasizing both the problems that remain to be overcome and some of the actions being taken to solve them.

Dr. Kwolek-Folland earned her PhD in women's history from the University of Minnesota in 1987 and taught at the University of Kansas for 13 years.   In 2000, she assumed the directorship of the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida.  She teaches courses in history and women's studies and her research focuses on US women's history, women's labor and business history, gender studies and material culture studies. Currently, she is researching international dimensions of contemporary gender rights categories, particularly sexual rights. Her first book, Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office 1870-1930, was published in 1994 and won the 1995 Sierra Prize for best historical monograph from the Western Association of Women Historians. Her second book is Incorporating Women: A History of Women and Business in the United States.  


For more information, please call 918-631-2279.