Women in the Military: Where They Stand         

Conference Schedule

Updated 25 April 2007 and subject to change

Thursday  10 May

0730 – 0830     Registration & Breakfast

0830 – 0850     Welcome  Susan Scanlan, President, WREI; BG Wilma Vaught, USAF (ret), WIMSA; and BG Pat Foote,

                         USA, (ret), President, Alliance for National Defense (AND)

0910 – 1010     Panel:  International Issues                             Moderator: Dr. Marjorie Lightman

                         Dr. Kathryn Spurling—Marking Time:  Women in the Australian Defense Force                                                                    

                         Capt Krister Fahlstedt, Swedish Armed Forces – Integrating the Swedish Armed Forces  

1010 – 1040    Break                                                                                                                                                                                                  

1040 – 1230     Panel:    Gender & Sexuality in the Military    Moderator: Dr. Judith Youngman

                         Dr. Joan Nagel & Lindsey Feitz—The Militarization of Gender & Sexuality in   the Iraq War

                         Cadet Erin Morgan, USMA—Masculinity and Femininity in the United States Corps of Cadets

                         Cadet Stephanie Young, USCGA—Solid and Weighty: The Militarization of America and its Implications                              Toward the United States Coast Guard and its Women

                         LtCol Diane Ryan—Measuring Gender Attitudes and Social Dominance Orientation Among US Army ROTC Cadets

1230 – 1330    Networking  Lunch

1330 – 1400     Colonel Paul Roush, USMC, (ret), PhD.—The Admiral and the Senator                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

1400 – 1520    Panel:  Mentoring and Reaching the Stars              Moderator: Dr. Regina Akers

                        Maria Cerniauskas-Upton and Stefanie Gobel—The Academy Women eMentoring Program

                        Jill Rough—Mentoring Women:  The Basics of Leadership

                        Darlene Iskra—Who Are the Women Who Have “Broken Through the Brass Ceiling”

1520 – 1540    Break

1540 -- 1730    Presentation and Round Table                             Moderator:  Dr. Brenda L. Moore

1540 – 1600     Presentation—Lt Col Irene  Zoppi, USAR, Ph.D.—The Effects of Acculturation and Collectivism on the Leadership                           Satisfaction of US Army Hispanic Female Officers  

1600 – 1730     Roundtable—  Out of the Shadows:  African American Women & the Military

                         Moderator:         Ron E. Armistad, MCP, LSW

                         Presentation:   Dr. Brenda L. Moore — Serving in a War Zone: Perceptions of African American Women

                         Discussants:     Dr. Estella Norwood Evans, DSW, CSW, LMSW, ACSW

                                                    Dr. Lesa D. Meyer

                                                    Muriel Gibson

1730 - 1900      Alliance for National Defense Reception

Friday  11 May

0730 – 0830      Breakfast & Registration

0830 – 1030      Panel:  Deployed Women                     Moderator: Col Barbara Lee, USA (ret)

                          Dr. Morten G. Ender—Attitudes of American Women Soldiers:  Comparisons  Across Iraq, Kuwait and Haiti

                          LtCol Irene Rosen, MC, USA—Women’s Health in a Field Environment

                          Edward Evans—Elizabeth At War

                          Major Melba Stetz,  USA, and Lt Col Irene Zoppi, USAR, US Army Females throughout History: 

                          Stressors, Strains and Ways to Cope

                          Dr. Randy C. Balano—Integrating Women in the Navy and the Fleet

1030 – 1050      Break

1050 – 1120      Dr. Meg Harrell—The Rand Study on Army Women in Iraq (if released)

1120 – 1145       Capt Joan Darrah USN (ret)—Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell Update

1145 – 1245       Lunch

1245 – 1415      Panel:  Military Families Matters and Benefits of Serving     Moderator: Nancy Duff Campbell

                          LtGen Carol Mutter, USMC (ret)—Widows and Widowers of the Fallen

                          Cadet Aaron Stark, USMA—Using Military Families to Examine the Effect of Financial Shocks on Marital Stress

                          Cadet Melanie Kwan, USMA—How the Army Influences Martial Relations

                          Cadet Chelsea A. Cunningham, USMA  —The Relationship between Army Deployment and Changing Communications

                          Dr. Lisa A. Fowler and Col Pat Jernigan, USA (ret)—Benefits of Service in the US Army

1415 – 1430      Break

1430 – 1530      Panel:   Sexual Assault and Violence in the Military       Moderator: Capt Pat Gormley, JAGC, USN (ret)

                          Dr. Carol Burke—The Case of Spc. Suzanne Swift

                          Christine Hansen—The Assessment of the Implications of Sexual and Domestic Violence in the US Armed Forces

1540 – 1610      Meg McLagan & Daria Sommers    Documentary Preview

1610 – 1630      Col Denise Dailey, USA     DACOWITS 2006 Report

1630                  Conference Wrap-up