| November 17, 2008
The New York Women's Bar Association Foundation's next Breakfast with the Author event will be Monday, November 17, 2008. Our author is Rep. Carolyn Maloney who will be talking about her new book, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier and How We Can Make Real Progress for Ourselves and Our Daughters. This will be a very exciting event--be sure to reserve early.
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| Speakers in the Breakfast Speaker Series have included:
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| On March 6, 2008, Dr. Sarah Weddington, nationally known attorney who successfully argued Roe v. Wade, Professor, Presidential Advisor and Author of the best-selling book, A Question of Choice. This program was in recognition of the 35th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade.
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| On February 2, 2007, Margaret Heffernan, Author of The Naked Truth: a Working Woman's Manifesto and How She Does It: How Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Rules of Business Success.
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| On November 3, 2006, Lynn Sherr, Journalist for ABC-TV News, 20/20 Correspondent and Author of newly released, Outside the Box: A Memoir.
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| On June 9, 2006, the seventh Breakfast in our series featured Joan Biskupic, a Supreme Court Reporter for USA Today and author of, Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice.
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| Linda Greenhouse, Legal Columnist for The New York Times and author of Becoming Justice Blackmun:
Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey
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| Martha Burk, Columnist, Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations and author of
Cult of Power: Sex Discrimination in Corporate America and What Can Be Done About It
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| Beth Harpaz, journalist and author of "The Girls in the Van: A Reporter's Diary of the Campaign Trial and
Finding Annie Farrell: A Family Memoir
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| Gail Collins, Editorial Page Editor at The New York Times and Best-selling author,
America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines
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| Kati Marton, award-winning journalist, human rights advocate, and best-selling author of
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages that Shaped Our History
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| Linda Fairstein, former Chief of the Sex Crimes Prosecution Bureau, Manhattan District Attorney's Office,
and bestselling author of books such as Bone Vault and Death Dance.
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