Strand 1: Dynamic

Women and Girls managing technology, finance, business, communication and change in the new millennium.

Day 1:     28 September 2000
Ms Sheryle Moon
Telstra Business Woman of the Year 1999

Bio

Sheryle has twenty years' experience in the IT industry, her achievements also include heading one of Australia's most successful and profitable IT recruitment businesses. Sherye achieved success as a businesswoman and mother by understanding where committment and loyalty lie - her own and those around her who have contributed to her success.

Abstract: Living with change is learning to live, that's Dynamic

There was a time when ideas lived longer than people. Today people live longer than ideas. The word dynamic defines this new environment where the pace of change is so rapid that evolution of thought and organisational change appear slow. Waiting for evolution is inefficient and ineffective. We are in one of those great historic periods when we realise that we don't understand the world anymore, when the past is not sufficient to predict the future.

Strand 2: Diverse

Women and Girls exploring choices, opportunities and possible futures in a global environment.

Day 2:     29 September 2000,
Professor Pam Gilbert
 

Bio

Pam Gilbert is a Professor of Education at the School of Education at James Cook University. She has published widely in literacy education, gender and education, and studies of youth culture, and has worked on a number of major national research projects addressing gender, schooling and literacy. Several well known publications of hers include "Gender, Literacy and the Classroom", "Fashioning the Feminine", "Boys and Literacy", and her most recent book - "Masculinity Goes to School".

Abstract: Keeping Equity Alive in "New Times": Redefining gender issues for the 21st Century.

In this address, Pam Gilbert will consider how gender issues need to be framed and analysed in contemporary times, so that equity matters are given a proper and necessary place on educational agendas. Pam will argue that an understanding of the social construction of gender, and of gender relations in Australian society, is still necessary and important knowledge for Australian educators. She will demonstrate how such knowledge can help to clarify differences in participation and achievement, and differences in post-school pathways, for girls and boys. However, Pam will also argue that an understanding of gender must be read in conjunction with understandings of a range of other social issues - notably poverty and ethnicity - as part of an equity agenda. A feminist lens on gender relations and inequitable social conditions is a powerful too for advancing equity.

Strand 3: Divine

Women and Girls inspiring synergy, stability and new values in a challenging world.

Day 3:     30 September 2000,
Senator Jan McLucas
 

Bio

Jan McLucas was elected to the Australian Senate in October 1998, and took up her seat on 1 July 1999. A former teacher, local government Councillor and unionist, Jan has most recently worked with the childcare sector promoting access and choice for families. She has close links with the indigenous community in Far North Queensland. She was a member of the Cape York Peninsula Land UseStategy's Regional Advisory Group for Stage 2.
 

Abstract: The Secret Diary of a Role Model

What is divine? Meeting a confident, happy young woman is always an uplifting experience. We all know that what goes into the development of that young woman does not just occur in the classroom. Our children learn as much from observing the adult behaviour around them as they do from their teachers. As mothers and friends to young women, we have to be very aware of the role models we set. It's not just what we say, but what we DO as well. How we manage our relationships, our responsibilities and our own self-esteem can help or hinder the development of our daughters. How is our generation going?