In honour of World Water Day, Carleton University’s Global Water Institute (GWI) and the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) will co-host Gender and Water Quality: Women Do Most of the Work! – with speaker Frances Henry, Emeritus Professor (York University) and a Fellow of the RSC.
When: Friday, March 22, 2019 from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Where: Room 2017, Dunton Tower, Carleton
Info: Attendees are asked to RSVP to banu.ormeci@carleton.ca
Media are invited to attend the event.
An important, and often overlooked, component of water quality is its relationship to gender. Women most often have the responsibilities of water gathering, production and usage in the home and in agricultural production. Two-thirds of the world’s poor populations lack access to safe and reliable water. To improve water quality, more women must be included in managerial and decision-making institutions – especially in developing countries.
Henry is the lead author of the “Women and Water” chapter in the book Water Quality in the Americas: Risks and Opportunities – to be released on World Water Day. The book is published by the Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS).
About Frances Henry
Henry is one of Canada’s leading experts in the study of racism and anti-racism. Now retired, Henry continues an active research and publishing career, writing on issues of racism and anti-racism in Canada. Her most recent book, co-authored with colleagues, is The Equity Myth. Published by UBC press, the book reports the results of a four-year national study of race, racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian universities. Henry has been a member of the RSC since 1989. She is the Canadian delegate to the IANAS’s ‘Women for Science’ program, for which she has conducted research and written reports on gender and women in science.
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Thursday, March 21, 2019 in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Events, Women in Engineering
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