Kuehl Will Speak on Gender Equity

State Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, will discuss how educational programs and assistance based on gender affect school policy, in an address Thursday sponsored by Cal State Northridge’s College of Education.

Kuehl will be the keynote speaker at the second annual Reznik and Reznik Gender Equity Lecture, which will begin at 5 p.m. in the Business and Education Lecture Hall 101, at the corner of Etiwanda Avenue and Plummer Street.

Sandra Klasky, development director for the College of Education and the event’s organizer, said Kuehl was asked to speak about inequities in the classroom and in other aspects of education, and to suggest ways they can be rectified.

“We want to know in what ways can you craft legislation that will help create greater equity,” Klasky said, adding that in some cases there may not be an adequate way.

The assemblywoman, whose district includes parts of the West Valley, was chosen to speak to the educators and guests because of her background and research on gender equity in domestic violence and other legal issues.

Kuehl has taught law at UCLA and Loyola law schools and co-founded the California Women’s Law Center.

Klasky said the College of Education is especially concerned with ensuring there is gender equity from kindergarten all the way through school.

“It’s in the way you treat people and the way you advise people,” she said.

For more information and reservations for the free lecture, call (818) 677-2590.