REMINDER! Running in High Heels: A Film About Women (almost) in Office

10/02/07

Women's Studies presents Running in High Heels
Wednesday, October 3 in Emerson Suites B
7:00 p.m. film screening
Open mic discussion and refreshments to follow.

Women comprise 52 percent of the population, but only represent 14 percent of Congress.

So what is it really like for a woman to run for political office in 2007?

Running in High Heels follows the struggles of a woman running for office through the eyes of 29 year-old Emily's political campaign as she runs for a State Senate seat in New York City's 29th District.

Intercut with Emily's story are interviews and commentary by notable women from the right and left of America's political spectrum, from Phyllis Schlafly to Rosalind Wiseman, whose work on the psychological warfare and unwritten social rules with which girls (and women) deal is the basis for the movie Mean Girls. Through their debates they illustrate the controversy between what women say they want and the contradictions of what they act on.

Sponsored by: The library, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Departments of Sociology, History, and Politics, and IC Feminists.