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Women's Empowerment Lecture Series ... The YWCA of Maricopa County is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has served the Phoenix metropolitan area since 1912. The YWCA's goal is to empower women and eliminate prejudice. As a part of their advocacy role they launched the Women's Empowerment Lecture Series to heighten community awareness of women's issues. Their first series included: internationally-renowned author, philanthropist, Academy Award-winner and Holocaust survivor Gerda Klein; Dr. Evelyn Murphy, founder of the Wage Project, a national project to end wage discrimination against working women; and former New York Times reporter and author of "The Price of Motherhood," Ann Crittenden. Gerda Weissman Klein
Dr. Evelyn Murphy
Ann Crittenden
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Gerda Weissmann Klein is a survivor of the Holocaust, an author, Academy Award winner, philanthropist and founder, along with her late husband, of the Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation that works with young people that promotes tolerance, respect and empowerment through education and community service. Gerda’s first book, All But My Life, is in its 60th printing and the 50th Anniversary edition will soon be released. This book tells Gerda’s story beginning with her happy childhood in a town in southern Poland through her separation from her family, years in forced-labor camp, survival of a long “death march” and eventual liberation by a young Jewish lieutenant, who later became her husband. One Survivor Remembers, a documentary about her experiences during the Holocaust, won an Academy Award in 1996. Another film that features her story is shown regularly at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. An inspiring motivational speaker, she has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes.
Evelyn Murphy is President of The WAGE Project, Inc., a national organization to end wage discrimination against working women, and Resident Scholar in the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, where she has researched and authored a book on women’s wages entitled Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It, published by Simon & Schuster in October 2005. The WAGE Project is the means by which women get from earning 77 cents to earning $1 for every $1 men earn. Dr. Murphy is a Ph.D. economist, former Lt. Governor of Massachusetts, and board member for various corporations and non-profit organizations.
Ann Crittenden is an award-winning journalist, author, and lecturer. Her latest book, If You’ve Raised Kids, You Can Manage Anything, received critical praise and was featured in People magazine.