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The Canadian Women Economists Network/Réseau de Femmes Économistes was founded in 1990 as an independent association of persons interested in promoting women economists and their ideas. Over the past two decades, CWEN has been instrumental in promoting women's involvement with and within the wider Canadian economics community.
CWEN 2011 LUNCHEON
Dr. Rebecca Blank, Acting Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Economic Affairs for the United States Department of Commerce spoke on the Women in America report that her department, together with the Executive Office of the President, released for the White House Council on Women and Girls this past spring. The last such comprehensive report on the status of women in the United States was released in 1963. In addition to highlighting some key trends in the report, Dr. Blank also highlighted similar trends in Canada. The report's website with links to all data sources can be found here and the slides from her talk here.
CWEN MEMBERSHIP
You are now able to renew your CWEN membership through the CEA Website. See our Membership Page for more information.
CWEN/RFÉ has travel grant awards available for CWEN members who are either graduate students or junior faculty and are presenting a research paper at a Canadian study group meeting or the Canadian Economic Association meetings. For details, please see the Awards section. Please distribute this announcement to anyone who might be interested.
At the CEA meetings in Quebec City, members ratified a new version of the constitution. The constitutional changes were relatively minor . The main changes were:
1. To create a new position on the executive: President-Elect. With the expectation that normally the vice-president one year will assume the position of president-elect the following year, and the position of president the year after that. This will replicate the transition process that is used for the CEA leadership, and we feel will give the organization a bit more continuity in leadership over time and allow for longer term planning.
2. To make more explicit some expectations around financial reporting. Although we have had no issues to date, it seems to make sense to explicitly state when the financial year of the organization ends and when financial statements should be produced.
3. To remove the explicit statement of membership fees from the constitution. Although the current fees are exactly as stated in the constitution, we thought it might make sense to allow for greater flexibility by placing membership fees at the discretion of the executive.
The current constitution can be viewed here.
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