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CLEVELAND: Women leaders in the philanthropic, arts, and business sectors discuss how they achieved a considerable amount of success in their respective careers while balancing active family lives at noon on Tuesday, August 12, 2008, at The City Club of Cleveland. Barbara Danforth, president and CEO of the YWCA Greater Cleveland, will serve as moderator.
According to the U.S. Department of State, women represent 46% of the total U.S. labor force and will account for 51% of the increase in total labor force growth from 2004-2014. The largest percentage of employed women (38%) work in management, professional, and related occupations, while 35% work in sales and office occupations.
With the push to advance in their careers, many young professional women wonder whether they can achieve a successful balance between their career objectives and their desire to start and maintain a family.
Panelists are as follows:
· Caprice Bragg, vice president for gift planning and donor relations, Cleveland Foundation
· Cindy Einhouse, president and CEO, Beck Center for the Arts
· Elizabeth Oliver, president, Greater Cleveland District, KeyBank
· Jennifer Thomas, director, Civic Innovation Lab
How do these women balance their career goals and their family responsibilities? Did the decision to have children stall their career development, and did they have a specific plan on when to start their families? What role did mentors play in their lives?
This special program is organized by The City Club New Leaders. New Leaders develop significant opportunities for civic involvement and freedom of speech among young professionals.
Tickets are $15 for members and $25 for non-members. Lunch is included. Reservations are required at least 24 hours in advance of the event. They can be purchased by calling The City Club at 216.621.0082 or visiting the website at www.cityclub.org.
Science and Technology: A Public Call for Presidential Debate
Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, a leader in the public call for a presidential debate on science and technology, will review the movement’s history, the lessons we have learned about the institutional impediments to having serious debate about important issues in the political arena, and ideas on how we might improve things in the future at noon on Wednesday, August 13, 2008, at The City Club of Cleveland.
In December 2007, an unlikely group of individuals, including two screenwriters, a scientist, and two science bloggers, got together and began a public call for a presidential debate on science and technology. The movement took off, with more than 20,000 scientists and educators joining, as well as major national organizations that represent millions of voters, including the National Academy of Sciences and the Business Roundtable. No such debate has happened in spite of the fact that scientific and technical factors underlie almost every important issue the candidates are addressing: national security, energy, global warming, and economic competitiveness.
Krauss received his PhD from MIT in 1982 and then joined the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He was appointed as a professor of physics and astronomy at Yale University in 1985, and then joined Case Western Reserve as chair of Physics in 1993, a position he held until 2005.
In September 2008, Krauss will take up a new post as Foundation Professor and director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University. The author of seven popular books, including international bestseller The Physics of Star Trek, he is a regular radio commentator and essayist for newspapers, such as The New York Times, and appears regularly on television. He has been particularly active in issues of science and society, leading the effort by scientists to defend the teaching of science in public schools and to help define the proper limits of science and religion, as well as defending scientific integrity in government.
Tickets are $15 for members and $25 for non-members. Lunch is included. Reservations are required at least 24 hours in advance of the event. They can be purchased by calling The City Club at 216.621.0082 or visiting the website at www.cityclub.org.
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