SJC Women's Network eNewsletter - August 2024
Welcome to the summer edition of the SJC Women’s Network newsletter. Summer for Oxford means elated students finishing their degrees and being doused in all manner of unspeakable things in trashings, the city is awash with swatches of alumni in black tie returning for gaudies, and tourists slowly plodding through the streets marvelling at it all.
In this edition of the newsletter, President of College, Professor Dame Sue Black, very generously and openly spoke with the Network about her personal reflections on her first two years at St John’s and her hopes for the future.
We offer a book review on The Authority Gap, an examination of why women are still taken less seriously than men and what we can do about it. The Women’s Network offered a practical workshop on how Effective Meetings and Workshops, and you can read about the outcomes.
And we would like to warmly introduce our new Secretary Zoe Stockton, you can read more about Zoe’s background and her motivations for joining the network.
Looking ahead, on 5 September we are hosting summer networking drinks in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. This quirky and historic pub was a regular haunt of literature giants such as Mark Twain, W.B. Yeats, Charles Dickens and Dr Samuel Johnson. With a central location just off Fleet Street, we hope you will join us for our City late summer drinks to reconnect with old friends and new in this classic London institution.
Rose Sundt (2015, Oriental Studies)
Communications Lead for SJC Women's Network
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Here Rose Sundt (2015, Oriental Studies) interviews our President, Professor Lady Sue Black.
Here Kate Molesworth, Chair of the Women's Network, reviews The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Then Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart.
Alex Bollen (1991, History) discusses the key discussion points and take aways raised in her recent workshop for the Women's Network.
On 5 September we are hosting summer networking drinks in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese. This quirky and historic pub was a regular haunt of literature giants such as Charles Dickens and Dr Samuel Johnson. We hope you will join us to reconnect with old friends and new.
Meet the new secretary of the Steering Group - Zoe Stockton (2016, Human Sciences).
Join us in College on 14 September for an evening filled with food, wine, and the chance to catch up with old friends and to make some new friends too!
Don't forget to join our SJC Women's Network group on LinkedIn