{"id":5220,"date":"2016-10-04T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:22:26","slug":"visiting-scholar-discusses-challenges-for-women-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/04\/visiting-scholar-discusses-challenges-for-women-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting scholar discusses challenges for women in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5221\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Harpreet-Kaur.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Harpreet-Kaur.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Harpreet Kaur\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5221\" width=\"243\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Harpreet-Kaur-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Harpreet-Kaur-200x198.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/10\/Harpreet-Kaur.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Harpreet Kaur<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Harpreet Kaur, a Fulbright visiting scholar at Miami Dade College in Florida, will present a talk, \u201cThe Cultural and Professional Challenges for Women in India,\u201d at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6 in the Hoff Conference Rooms, Blum Student Union rooms 218-219 at Missouri Western State University. The presentation is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kaur is a professor of law at the National Law University in Delhi, India. She has navigated life as a woman in India\u2019s professional world, first as a business law attorney for three years and then as a law professor for the past 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation is conducted through the Fulbright Scholar Program\u2019s Outreach Lecturing Fund. Co-sponsors include the Department of English and Modern Languages, Peace and Conflict Studies, Gender and Power Studies, and the St. Joseph YWCA.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/em><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Harpreet Kaur, a Fulbright visiting scholar at Miami Dade College in Florida, will present a talk, \u201cThe Cultural and Professional Challenges for Women in India,\u201d at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6 in the Hoff Conference Rooms, Blum Student Union rooms 218-219 at Missouri Western State University. The presentation is free and open to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,32,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8701,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}