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\nOXFORD, Miss. The status of women in the state is the <\/p>\n \nThe purpose of the free, public events is to bring women’s \n“In 2006, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research rated \nAttendees are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch to the \nThe first program, titled “Challenges to Women’s Rights in \nThe final presentation is the panel discussion “Women’s
\nfocus of lunch lecture programs Sept. 24, Oct. 22 and Nov.
\n5 at the University of Mississippi.
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\nissues to the community’s attention for dialogue during the
\ncurrent gubernatorial race, said Mary Carruth, director of
\nthe Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies
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\nMississippi yet again among the worst states for women in
\nterms of economic status, employment, education level and
\nhealth insurance,” Carruth said. “While the series analyzes
\nsocial problems, it will also point to solutions for
\nsolving the challenges women and their families face. And
\nwe hope it will increase the number of women voters on Nov.
\n6.”
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\nnoon programs, which are sponsored by the Isom Center. The
\nopening event in the series is set for the Johnson Commons
\nBallroom, with the final two scheduled in the Student Union
\nBallroom.
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\nMississippi,” is to be presented by Nsombi Lambright,
\nexecutive director of ACLU of Mississippi. The second
\nevent, “Mississippi Law and Intimate Partner Violence,” is
\nto be presented by Debbie Bell, UM professor of law..
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\nStatus and Political Participation in Mississippi.”
\nPanelists are Kay Cobb, retired Mississippi Supreme Court
\njustice; Marianne Hill, policy analyst at State
\nInstitutions of Higher Learning in Jackson; Donna Yowell,
\ndirector of the Mississippi Commission on the Status of
\nWomen; and Lena Wiley, executive director of the Interfaith
\nCompassion Ministry in Oxford.
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