“The Gender and Education Committee has entered a new era.”  So remarked many CIES members following the 2005 Gender and Education Symposium at Stanford.  A record 175 individuals registered for the symposium, which included presentations on promoting gender equality and deconstructing gender equality, as well as the Eggersten Lecture given by Professor Nelly Stromquist.   

The next issue of the CIES Newsletter will revisit the dynamism of the 2005 Gender Symposium presentations and will describe the process through which CIES members will be invited to design the Gender Symposium for CIES 2006.   

At the end of the 2005 symposium we recognized the creation of the Gender and Education Committee ten years ago and the leaders who have brought it to this “new era”:  --In 1995 CIES President Vandra Masemann appointed Nelly Stromquist to chair the newly established ad hoc Gender and Education Committee.  --In 1998 the GEC became a standing committee under the bylaws of the new CIES constitution.  --Subsequent GEC Chairs were Karen Biraimah, Heidi Ross, Margaret Sutton, and Mary Ann Maslak.   Our members are sure to have splendid suggestions for how we can continue to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the Gender and Education Committee during 2005-06.  Please send your ideas by August 1, 2005 to Gender and Education Committee Chair Shirley Miske (smiske@miskewitt.com).