TO: Beijing Conference Action and Resource Network FROM: Judy Kramer UPDATE #15 AUGUST 3, 1997 EVENTS *** Women and Political Power Seminar--San Francisco August 13, 5-9 pm Pacific Bell Parnassus Room, 370 Third Street, SF Sponsored by Nat'l Assoc. of Women Business Owners Cost: $25 for NAWBO or NWPC members, $30 nonmembers Contact: Susan Sakaki, 510-531-5377 Learn to impact legislation, get appointments on boards and commissions, and meet other women interested in political action. Workshop leaders include political consultants Nanette Kelley and Elmy A. Bermejo. *** 1997 Women Who Make a Difference Awards Program--San Francisco August 14, 5:30-7:30 pm The Green Room, War Memorial Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Presented by the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women Contact: 650-252-2570. Honorees are Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the only major corporation in California to take a public stand against Prop. 209; Lora Jo Foo of Asian Law Caucus; SF Dept. of Public Works engineer Kathryn How; Barbara Morrison of TMC Development; Renee Saucedo of Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights; and Center for Young Women's Development. *** Psychology Conference--Oakland "People in Connection: The Stone Center Relational Theory: Applying Theory to Clinical Practice" Nov 8&9, 1997 Holy Names College, Oakland, CA Sponsored by Association for Women in Psychology, California Northern Region Contact: Mona Reeva, 510/525-8556, or email Feminist psychology mothered by Jean Baker Miller, Janet Surrey and Judith Jordan. Five theorists from Wellesley College, Mass, will come to give presentations, with five local clinicians as discussants. ADDITIONAL WEB SITES A list of over 50 Bay Area, national, and international web sites of interest to women and girls was published in Update # 12, which is available on our web site at . Here are some additional sites. *Bizwomen *Female Genital Mutilation Research *Femina *Feminist.Com *Lilith Fair Music Tour *Planet Cybergrrl *Small Business Administration Office of Women's Business Ownership *Webgrrls *Webgrrls Silicon Valley *Women Business Owners Corporation-Los Altos *Women Business Owners Corporation-San Francisco *Women to Worship *Women's Business Listing of San Francisco *Women's Connection Online *WWWomen NEW BOOK "Where Women Stand: International Report on the Status of Women in 140 Countries, 1997-98", by Naomi Neft and Ann D. Levine, Random House, 1997. This book reports on a variety of statistics relating to the status of women all over the world. It is very readable and seems quite complete. I found it browsing at Borders Bookstore in Palo Alto. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This online update, published weekly in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, covers events, resources, and information related to follow-up to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women and the issues covered in the Platform for Action document. You are encouraged to send in information and news to Judy Kramer . Past updates are available on the web at