News & Events Lani Guinier, "Gender and Power," March 2, 2002

Harvard University law professor Lani Guinier spoke on "Rethinking Gender and Power: Building Diverse Learning Communities," on Saturday, March 2, 2002, at Amherst College. Her talk was part of a series of events at Amherst commemorating the 1976 arrival of the first women students at the college.

Audio Clips

• People who've been excluded are the "canary in the coal mine" (262k MP3)
  
  
• The second dimension of power—"who designed the game?" (222k MP3)
  
  
• On male students raising their hands first in class (168k MP3)
  
  
• On standardized tests—"merit and diversity are not separate and distinct issues..." (65k MP3)

Read the news release for this event.