Street Painting Festival - today and tomorrow

Women's History Month - 6th Annual Street Painting Festival

The Street Painting Festival is a lively mixture of art and community involvement as dozens of chalk artists create their works in full view of students and visitors. This non-profit event raises money for SWC Women's Resource Center scholarships.

Wednesday, March 21
Street Painting Festival & UCSD Transfer Fair
9 a.m.–3 p.m. (Street Painting Festival)
10 a.m.-1 p.m. (UCSD Transfer Fair)

Thursday, March 22
Street Painting Festival & Job Fair/Career Expo
9 a.m.–3 p.m. (Street Painting Festival)
10 a.m.–1 p.m. (Job Fair/Career Expo)

Street painting viewing will remain open for viewing until dusk on both days!

Where: Main walkway in front of the Cesar E. Chavez Student Services Building
Job Fair location: Southwestern College Cafeteria area

For Street Painting Festival information contact Brenda Mora at: bmora@swccd.edu or (619) 421-6700, ext. 5213.

March is Women's History Month

2012 Theme: Women’s Education – Women’s Empowerment

"Although women now outnumber men in American colleges nationwide, the reversal of the gender gap is a very recent phenomenon. The fight to learn was a valiant struggle waged by many tenacious women—across years and across cultures—in our country.

Pioneers of secondary education for young women faced arguments from physicians and other 'experts' who claimed either that females were incapable of intellectual development equal to men, or that they would be harmed by striving for it. Women’s supposed intellectual and moral weakness was also used to argue against coeducation, which would surely be an assault on purity and femininity.

While Harvard, the first college chartered in America, was founded in 1636, it would be almost two centuries before the founding of the first college to admit women—Oberlin, which was chartered in 1833. And even as 'coeducation' grew, women’s courses of study were often different from men’s, and women’s role models were few, as most faculty members were male. Harvard itself opened its 'Annex' (Radcliffe) for women in 1879 rather than admit women to the men’s college—and single-sex education remained the elite norm in the U.S. until the early 1970s.

The equal opportunity to learn, taken for granted by most young women today, owes much to Title IX of the Education Codes of the Higher Education Act Amendments. This legislation, passed in 1972 and enacted in 1977, prohibited gender discrimination by federally funded institutions. It has become the primary tool for women's fuller participation in all aspects of education from scholarships, to facilities, to classes formerly closed to women. Indeed, it transformed the educational landscape of the United States within the span of a generation."
(Source: National Women's History Project, http://www.nwhp.org/whm/index.php)

Visit our Women's History Month display on the 3rd floor of the library. The books in the display are available for four-week check out with your SWC ID card.

Have a question? Ask a librarian!

Check It Out

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.
By Gail Collins.
New Book Shelf HQ 1421 C64 2009

New York Times columnist Gail Collins’ latest book showcases the incredible journey of American women over the past 50 years. Ms. Collins first explores an era when women were not allowed to sit on juries in some states; she then follows the progress of the women’s movement and the civil rights movement as the passion for equality caught fire across the country.

This new title weaves the compelling stories of more than 100 women, ranging in age from 20 to 80 and includes information on dozens of well- and lesser-known female leaders, including Sherri Finkbine, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Alice Paul, Margaret Chase Smith, Phyllis Schlafly, Helen Gurley Brown and Billy Jean King. The author provides examples of the sexism that women (and men) once accepted as the norm, and she backs up her often eye-opening stories with hard facts and solid statistics. From the opening anecdote of a woman expelled from traffic court in 1960 for appearing in slacks, to the closing one of a woman fired from her job as a bus driver in 2007 for refusing to wear slacks, this an engrossing account of how not just the daily lives, but the assumptions and expectations of women have changed so much in so short a time.

Check out, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present available now in the library on the New Book Shelf New Book Shelf HQ 1421 C64 2009

Women's History Month

March is Women's History Month and in honor of women throughout the world NewsBank has created a special report focusing on contemporary and historic issues, and newsmaking events. The report includes content from sources throughout the world to provide a global perspective, current and background information, statistics, maps, images, websites, and suggested search terms for additional information. New information is added daily to featured and current reports.

To view the Newsbank Special Report this month visit our Article and Databases website and select Newsbank Access World News . The next link will provide you with information about Off Campus Access for Newsbank and all the library's online resources.