Invested in Equality: Dr. Michael Kimmel Engages Geneva’s Leaders
“We can’t keep patting ourselves on the back for this incremental progress that we’re making (...) what it’s really going to take is courage and bold steps.” -- Ambassador Hamamoto
Dr. Kimmel, who is the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University, engaged a powerhouse of male and female Geneva-based leaders in a frank, public conversation about how to transcend barriers and transform perceptions about equality, masculinities and feminism. He challenged the audience to ask “Why men should support gender equality?”
The conversation included:
Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of the World Trade Organization; Ambassador Pamela Hamamoto, United States Permanent Representative to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva; Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Andrea Pedrazzini, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, Switzerland.
The event was organized jointly by International Gender Champions, the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, the United States Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, the United Nations Office at Geneva, and Women@theTable.
The video of the event is available at: graduateinstitute.ch/lang/en/pid/11078/_/events/gender/20...
U.S. Mission Photo/Eric Bridiers