Spring 2012

Equality Bake Sale
February 14, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Academic Building Lobby
On average, women make 77 cents per dollar that men make in the workplace. To demonstrate this wage gap inequity, men pay 25% more than women for baked goods at the Equality Bake Sale. Imagine if all prices for goods reflected the gendered wage gap.
Proceeds will go to a local women’s organization.

The Slave Across the Street
Speaker: Ms. Theresa Flores
February 23, 7 to 8 p.m., Wege Center Ballroom
She is the spokeswoman and Director of Education and Training for Gracehaven House, which is rehabilitation home for young girls who are survivors of human trafficking. Ms. Flores details her own story as a survivor of human trafficking in her memoirs The Slave Across the Street and The Sacred Bath. Ms. Flores speaks on human trafficking in the U.S. and her S.O.A.P. Project (Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution) as a rescue effort for young girls being trafficked in the U.S.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
Speaker: Ms. Stacy Malkan

March 21 - Lunch talk at Noon, Evening lecture at 7 p.m.

Luncheon Talk

Noon; Wege Center Ballroom

Tickets: $50. Available by calling the Women's Studies Center at (616) 632-2979.

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Evening Lecture

7 p.m., Wege Center Ballroom
Cost: Free

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Author Stacy Malkan, in her book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry, exposes the ugly side of personal care products, many of which people use every day. With her “Campaign for Safe Cosmetics,” and “Not Too Pretty” report, Ms. Malkan reveals the harmful chemicals used in more than 70 percent of the products tested.  She also offers ways that everyone can become involved in advocating for healthy personal care products.

Sponsored by the Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center and the Center for Sustainability at Aquinas College. For more information, contact the Women's Studies Center at (616) 632-2979 or The Center for Sustainability at (616) 632-1994. >More Information

Resourceful Women’s Conference
Keynote Speaker: Ms. Kelly Dittmar '05
March 31, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Donnelly Center

This is an inspirational and educational two-day conference. Students are able to submit academic papers, projects, exhibits, performances, and articles on the topic of gender issues, from which a winner will be chosen and given a monetary prize. Keynote speaker, Aquinas College alumna Kelly Dittmar, will discuss women’s involvement in politics, in her talk “From the Sidelines to the Senate: Women in American Politics.” >More

AQ Outstanding Woman Awards
April 25, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Donnelly Center
For this 10th annual event, celebrate the outstanding female students, staff, faculty, and alumnae of Aquinas College, who have made significant contributions and accomplishments on campus and in the community. You can nominate an outstanding woman of Aquinas College starting Monday, March 12, 2012. Nomination forms will be on the JHIWSC website. Please turn in your nominations by Monday, April 16, 2012.