Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 3, Number 2, 1 February 1986 — Conference on Working Women Feb. 15 [ARTICLE]

Conference on Working Women Feb. 15

The Honolulu County Committee on the Status of Women is sponsoring a conference on "Women in the Workplaee in Hawaii" Saturday, Feb. 15 at the Ala Moana Amerieana Hotel. Goal of the conference is to stimulate thinking; provide information; facilitate networking; and to provide groundwork for support and the advancement of the status of women. Featured speakers are Gregory G . Y. Pai, Ph.D., vice president and chief economist at First Hawaiian Bank and Ah Quon McElrath, retired social worker with the International Longshoremen's and Warehouseman's Union. The conference begins at 7:30 a.m. with registration and a buffet breakfast. The agenda: 8:30 - 8:45 — weleome and introduction of speaker; 8:45 - 9:30 — Gregory G.Y. Pai, Ph.D.; 9:30 - 9:45 — Break; 9:45 - 11:45 — panel presentations; 11:45 - 12:00 — questions from floor; 12:00 - 12:30 — Ah Quon McElrath. Panel members are: • Sena Gates, project director of Single Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN), who will speak on the feminization of poverty. • Sandra Simms, deputy corporation counsel, speaking on divorced women and family support services. • Cheryl Kincaid, training coordinator at the Hotel and Restaurant lndustry Employment Training Trust, on how businesses ean create their own training programs.

• Jackie Young, sex equality specialist at the Department of Education, on occupation trends of high school senior girls and degendering the language. • Lillie Richardella, acting administrator of "WORK HAWAII," speaking on government and private industry partnership — training and employment. • Mary Anne Migan, University of Hawaii College of Education, on child care — "it's not only a women's issue". • Annelle Amaral, state coordinator at the Office of Affirmative Action, on definition of employees rights; prohibitions to discrimination; and employer's responsibilities. • Shelby Anne Floyd, attorney-at-law, on what to expect when one files a complaint. Registration packets for the conference ean be obtained by writing and enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope to Honolulu County Committee on the Status of Women — Office of Human Resources, 650 S. King St., Munieipal Building, 6th Floor, Honolulu, HI 96813, ATTN: Patti Cook. Registration materials may also be picked up at the same location. Cost of the breakfast will be no more than $10.