PRESS RELEASE

October 18, 1995

Women to Talk About Experience in Beijing

Five women, including two Cal State Northridge professors, will discuss their experiences at the World Conference on Women in Beijing on Monday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. in the South Valley Room of the university's Student Union.

Northridge political science professor Jane Bayes will talk about the meeting of non-governmental organizations as well as the official United Nations conference.

Mary Beth Welch-Orozco, interim chair of Northridge's Women's Studies Department, will recount discussions of lesbian rights as human rights.

Elahe Amani, a women's studies professor at Cal State Long Beach, will talk about her interviews with Muslim Irani women; Sondra Hale, an anthropology and women's studies professor at UCLA, will discuss her conversations with Sudanese Muslim women; and Mari Riddle, director of the Coalition for Women's Economic Development, will talk about women's economic development as well as the issues raised by Latin American women.

The Oct. 30 discussion is free and open to the public. Prior to the discussion will be a reception at 6:30 p.m. during which slides and videotape of the conference will be shown.

For more information, call Northridge's Women's Studies Department at (818) 885-3110.

Media Contact: Carmen Ramos Chandler, Director of News and Information, (818) 885-2130.