{"id":67881,"date":"2007-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-present-lecture-on-women-and-health-march-27\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-present-lecture-on-women-and-health-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/02\/uri-to-present-lecture-on-women-and-health-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to present lecture on women and health, March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 26, 2007 \u2013 Janet Mancini Billson will deliver the Fredrika Wild Schweers Lecture on women and health at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on March 27 at 7 p.m. The lecture, free and open to the public, will be held in White Hall Auditorium on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus. The Women\u2019s Studies Program presents the annual lecture.<\/p>\n


\n\tBillson\u2019s talk, \u201cFemale Well Being \u2013 Challenges and Power in a New Century,\u201d is derived from Billson\u2019s research on the fate of women and girls around the world in the 20th century. Billson, whose area of expertise includes gender and development and women in development, will focus on health and education as pivotal factors in achieving female well being in spite of persistent challenges. <\/p>\n


\n\tBillson authored Keepers of the Culture: The Power of Tradition in Women\u2019s Lives, which is based on women in seven cultural communities in Canada. She co-authored Female Well-Being: Towards a Global Theory of Social Change.<\/p>\n


\n\tBillson, a Stuart A. Rice Career Achievement Award recipient, taught sociology and women\u2019s studies at Rhode Island College and George Washington University. Since 1996 she has been the director of Group Dimensions International, a research and consulting firm based in Maine, which specializes in women and development. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 26, 2007 \u2013 Janet Mancini Billson will deliver the Fredrika Wild Schweers Lecture on women and health at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on March 27 at 7 p.m. The lecture, free and open to the public, will be held in White Hall Auditorium on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus. The Women\u2019s Studies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}