Filmmaker Abigail E. Disney's latest project began with a simple question, "What if you looked at war as though women mattered?" Disney's answer to that question is Women, War & Peace, a bold five-part PBS miniseries. By inserting a female face, voice, and perspective into the dialogue about conflict and security, Woman, War & Peace challenges the notion that these issues are only men's domain. Disney will speak on the Stanford campus October 12, 2011.

"What we do in our lives is important, but the way we do it is more important in transforming our world," says Anne Firth Murray, a Faculty Research Fellow with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. "We need to be accountable. We need to have concern for the well-being of women by interacting in a mutually empowering way. But the values and principles that emerge are the more important product."

Gender inequality continues to exist in advanced industrial societies, such as the US, despite a plethora of changes that work against gender discrimination. These countervailing forces include economic rationality, changes to the legal system, progressive politics, and even women's own efforts to achieve equal opportunities. Stanford professor Cecilia Ridgeway takes this conundrum one step further. In a talk sponsored by the Clayman Institute, she explains why gender inequality continues in the modern world, and asks if we can predict which type of Silicon Valley start-up would face the greatest persistence of gender inequality in comparison to traditional, hierarchical firms.

Women now represent half the U.S. workforce: While many struggles remain, it's clear that most women have learned to switch hit—to play equally well in the workforce as in the family. Men, however, are only just starting to swing for the home team, taking on greater family responsibilities. Jeremy Adam Smith, author The Daddy Shift, and Christine Larson, co-author of Influence, explore why the next step in the gender revolution is up to men--and how they can be mobilized for work-family balance.

Jeremy Adam Smith is a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford and author of The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American Family.

Christine Larson is a visiting lecturer in communication and co-author, with Maddy Dychtwald, of Influence: How Women's Soaring Economic Power Will Change Our World for the Better