{"id":64083,"date":"2020-03-03T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=64083"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:31","slug":"carleton-experts-available-international-womens-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/carleton-experts-available-international-womens-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available: International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available: International Women\u2019s Day\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

March 8 is International Women\u2019s Day and Carleton experts are available to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clare Beckton<\/strong>
\nExecutive in Residence, Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>: 613-795-5026
\nEmail<\/strong>: Clare.Beckton@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beckton has extensive experience in a broad range of areas, including leading large organizations, strategic planning, governance, leadership to change systems, risk management, gender, diversity, inclusion, Indigenous policy issues and advancement of women\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She served as the deputy head of Status of Women Canada, managing the departmental agency and providing advice to ministers. She led the development of public policy for the advancement of women and helped non-profits seek funding to benefit women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rebecca Bromwich<\/strong>
\nAdjunct Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>:  613-520-2600, ext. 2621
\nEmail<\/strong>: Rebecca.Bromwich@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bromwich is the former program director of the Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution. Her current role is manager, Diversity and Inclusion, for the law firm Gowling WLG. Bromwich has been a columnist for Lawyers Weekly<\/em> and has authored and co-authored several books for students and legal system practitioners, including lawyers, paralegals and police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amina Mire
\n<\/strong>Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>:  613-520-2600, ext. 4476
\nEmail<\/strong>: Amina.Mire@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mire\u2019s areas of research interest include women and health; racialization and bio-medicalization of women\u2019s bodies and skin; anti-aging; women, science and technology; political thought; sociology of gender; sociology of knowledge; gender and the cinema; as well as anti-racist and anti-colonial research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mire\u2019s current research projects include examining the social, ethical, political and pedagogical implications of anti-aging discourse and practice; investigating the extent to which the female body continues to be a contested site of social investment and regulation; and a project examining changing skin-whitening technologies by tracing their emergence from colonial encounters, in which white skin was accorded social and cultural capital, toward the contemporary global marketing of biotechnology products that promise smooth, brightened and youthful-looking skin to affluent women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Media Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Murphy
\nCommunications Co-ordinator
\nCarleton University
\n613-520-2600, ext. 8834
\nElizabeth.Murphy@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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March 8 is International Women\u2019s Day and Carleton experts are available to comment. Clare Beckton Executive in Residence, Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work Phone: 613-795-5026 Email: Clare.Beckton@carleton.ca Beckton has extensive experience in a broad range of areas, including leading large organizations, strategic planning, governance, leadership to change systems, risk management, gender, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":54225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[110,124,96],"class_list":["post-64083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-law","tag-sociology-and-anthropology","tag-sprott-school-of-business"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64087,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083\/revisions\/64087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}