Women and Politics is Topic of Social Sciences Lecture at OSU
Friday, February 27, 2009
Dianne Bystrom will lecture on gender and communications on March 11 at Oklahoma State
University.
The admission-free, public lecture is from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Room 101 of the Paul Miller Building on the Stillwater campus.
Bystrom is a frequent media commentator on political and women’s issues. She has authored and contributed to 13 books including Gender and Candidate Communication and Legislative Women: Getting Elected, Getting Ahead.
Bystrom is a faculty member at Iowa State and previously worked at the University of Oklahoma in public relations, higher education administration and political communication.
“Dr. Bystrom’s lecture is very appropriate to our state,” said professor Derina Holtzhausen, director of the OSU School of Journalism and Broadcasting. “Last November’s election returned fewer women to the Oklahoma Legislature than the prior session and our state now ranks 49th among 50 states in the percentage of women serving in the state legislature.
“We hope that Dr. Bystrom’s work will inspire the young women in the school to become involved in politics and public life.”
The presentation is funded by the Social Science Seminar Series in the College of Arts and Sciences at OSU. For more information, phone (405) 744-6354 or visit http://journalism.okstate.edu .