Move to a new city for my partner or have them move for me? Keep with the high-powered career or stay at home with the kids? Move back with an ill parent or have them move in with me? Are these my only choices?

Life isn’t black and white and neither are the choices that you’ll have to make between your personal life and your career. And the time to start thinking about and discussing these life events is now. Please join WWIB, the Wharton 22s, and Wharton Leadership for a panel on life’s different shades of grey with WG ’05 alumni. They’ll discuss how choices in their personal lives directly affected their career paths in ways that no one talked about while in school. It’s one of the few opportunities where you’ll be able to ask executives all kinds of personal questions. You’re dedicating two years to plan for your career. Why not spend part of that time planning for your life?

As part of Return on Equality Week at Wharton, “Unpacking Identity: The Influence of Privilege” will be a combination workshop/share-out that encourages students to work together to examine the various roles that identity and privilege play in our lives as well as how they impact the way we understand ourselves and others.

This will be a powerful and personal workshop, which we highly encourage all members of the Wharton community to participate in. Come with an open heart and open mind and you are certain to walk away with new ideas and perspectives.

The 22s are excited to welcome Dr. Michael Kimmel to Wharton, author of "Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era" and several other books that focus on men and masculinities.

The topic will be "Why Should Men Support Gender Equality at Work?"

Recently featured at TEDWomen 2015 where he delivered a talk on "Why Gender Equality is good for everyone — men included", Dr. Kimmel is a tireless advocate of engaging men to support gender equality. In fact, he was recently called "the world's most prominent male feminist" in the Guardian newspaper in London.

There will be a talk at noon followed by a meet-and-greet at 1 pm. A light lunch will be served.

Co-Sponsored by Wharton Work/Life Integration Project

Additional information can be found below:

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To foster awareness and change around gender dynamics in the workplace, we need to actively involve men in our conversations. This panel will include both men and women across an array of different industries and will focus on how gender differences can affect communications, job performance, and career advancement. Panelists will provide advice on how to navigate these challenges and to pave the way for success.

Panelists:
Corinne Low, Assistant Professor, The Wharton School (Moderator)
Kristina Anderson, Strategic Partner Lead, Google
Julie J. Eaton, Global Business Director, DuPont Protection Technologies
Ann Hargraves, Director, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Sandra Schubert, Investment Advisor, Goldman Sachs
Ginny Too, Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
 

As part of WWIB Week, join the 22s, WWIB, and the Work/Life Integration Project for a free talk with Josh Levs, author of "All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses – And How We Can Fix It Together."

Josh is a Yale grad and well-known CNN journalist. When his third child was born prematurely he needed time off work to care for his newborn, his wife, and his other children. Time Warner, his employer, had a generous parental leave policy for biological mothers and both parents of adopting children, but not for biological fathers. As a result, he sued, made headlines, and ultimately helped catalyze a change in the company’s policy. Thus the seeds for his well-researched book were sown.

Co-Sponsored by Wharton Work/Life Integration Project

More information: http://joshlevs.com/

The 22s are committed to providing a platform for a dialogue on gender equality on the campus. As part of our efforts, we are organizing a series of small group dinners focusing on what we can do as a school to promote gender equality.

The dinners will bring together a group of people to discuss the topic and the 22s will subsidize 200 dollars per dinner as long as the group collaborates to submit a short article about the conversation to Wharton Journal. Please sign up here.  These dinners are also a great way to meet people from different spectrums of the Wharton life.

Come join the Wharton 22s and Wharton Women in Business in a screening of a The Mask You Live in, A documentary exploring the definition of masculinity in our society *SIGN UP at the following link *

Prof. Stew Friedman, the Founding Director of Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project, will lead a discussion of the topic in a business school context after the screening. Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/hc45-ptHMxo

We've gone all out on food and swag. Make sure to grab some before you get your seat for the screening!

Facilitated by Professor Stew Friedman and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project

Sponsored by the Wharton Wharthogs, The Wildmen, WWIB, and the 22s