[137] Gender, Society Changes Explored On "MTSU On The Record"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 9, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081, or WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

GENDER, SOCIETY CHANGES EXPLORED ON “MTSU ON THE RECORD”
Guest Lecturer Dr. Paula England Discusses Wage Differences, Dating Attitudes

(MURFREESBORO) - Dr. Paula England, professor of sociology at Stanford University and an affiliate of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, will be the guest on “MTSU On the Record” with host Gina Logue at 7 a.m. this Sunday, Oct. 11, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
On the program, England will discuss possible reasons for the continuing wage gap between men and women and changes in the ways college-age men and women connect socially. She also will talk about the admission by television star David Letterman that he has had sex with women staffers.
England will be one of the speakers at the 2009 Tennessee Undergraduate Social Science Symposium, which is scheduled to take place at MTSU on Nov. 10-11. She will deliver the Senior Scholar Lecture titled “Gender Equality: What’s Changing? What’s Not?” at 11:30 a.m. on Wed., Nov. 11, in the Tennessee Room of the James Union Building.
To hear last week’s program with Lt. Col. Therrel Kast, go to http://frank.mtsu.edu/~proffice/podcast2009.html and click on “October 4, 2009.” For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800


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