A nationally recognized expert on relationship issues, Dr. Pepper Schwartz, will present an hour-long interactive seminar entitled “Gender and Power in Relationships” Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. at Laredo Community College.
The
seminar, which will be conducted live via satellite broadcast, will be aired at
the De la Garza Building, room 101, at the LCC main campus.
Attendees will have the opportunity to call-in or email questions to Dr. Schwartz.
A professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle, Schwartz is the author of 14 books, including The Great Sex Weekend and Everything You Know about Love and Sex is Wrong.
Schwartz has contributed to many magazines, journals, and newspapers including the New York Times “Parent and Child” column, Sexual Health, and Psychology Today. She is the author of more than 40 scholarly articles and has served as a consultant to many organizations. Schwartz lectures nationally and internationally on relationship topics.
In her presentation, Dr. Schwartz will discuss the important roles that power and gender play in interpersonal relationships. Relationships benefit from a balance of power, but this ideal balance is difficult to develop and maintain.
Schwartz will address the sources of power in relationships, discuss the role that gender plays in the struggle for power, and suggest some strategies for finding the balance of power in relationships.
The program, which is co-produced by Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society and the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), is the first installment of a four-part Honors Satellite Seminar Series entitled Gold, Gods, and Glory: The Global Dynamics of Power.
The event is sponsored locally by the LCC Theta Theta chapter of Phi Theta Kappa and the Student Activities Office.
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society is the oldest and largest honor society in American higher education with 1,200 chapters on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the British Virgin Islands and U.S. territorial possessions.
More than two million students have been inducted to Phi Theta Kappa since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually.
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