The Wheaton News from Wheaton college reports:
Leading scholar on gender issues delivers keynote
May 17, 2008
NORTON, MASS. — Giving the keynote address at Wheaton College’s 173nd Commencement held on May 17, 2008, Wheaton alumna Katharine T. Bartlett marveled at the dramatic social, technological and scientific advances that have occurred over the past 40 years, and called attention to how far we still have to go.
“We could not know in 1968, even, that in our graduating class was the future governor of New Jersey, and future head of the Environmental Protection Agency, an agency that did not exist in 1968. We could not know that at another all women’s college 35 miles away, was a student who would be running for the democratic nomination for president 40 years later. Nor that her primary opponent in the primary would be a then seven-year-old son of a black Kenyan father and white mother from Kansas,” said Bartlett, the A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law at Duke University and a leading scholar on gender issues and social change, and an advocate for children’s rights.
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