Arbitration & Mediation

Women bloggers proclaim National Women?s History Month

By Diane Levin

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog, Mediation Channel, and the Blogs of all other women who are making and recording the history of the United States of America every working day, that March is designated as Women’s History Month. Every woman blogger and every male blogger whose life has been enriched by the presence of women in it is requested to issue a proclamation each March, calling upon their fellow bloggers to observe March as Women’s History Month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

This resolution, calling upon “the people of the United States to observe March as Women?s History Month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities” was passed by Congress in 1987 and successive years since then.  For more information about the origin of National Women’s History Month, or the activities of the National Women’s History Project, visit the National Women’s History Project.

This blog is celebrating National Women’s History Month by drawing attention to a series of posts on implicit gender bias in ADR.  The first two posts are written by me, and the subsequent five by my colleague, commercial mediator and author Victoria Pynchon:

• Diversity, bias, gender, and ADR: a hard fight to level the playing field
• Doing it backwards and in heels:  a prescription for remedying gender bias in ADR

Victoria Pynchon’s series on gender and bias:

• Negotiating Gender:  Why So Few Women Neutrals?
• Update on Gender Diversity in the Judiciary and ADR
• Combating Implicit Gender Bias in ADR
• Negotiating Gender:  the Old White Men Speak
• Negotiating Gender Bias in ADR:  the Commercial Client Speaks

Full post as published by Online Guide to Mediation on March 12, 2010 (boomark / email).