Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov Participates in Podcast on Women's Empowerment |
| Thursday, 20 February 2014 |
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Fellow guests on the show included Carole Da Silva, founder and director of the French non-governmental organization AFIP (Association pour Favoriser l'Integration Professionnelle), which acts for the non-discrimination of immigrant minorities in the workplace. Dr. Milovidov is a law professor and children's rights advocate. She practiced as an international lawyer, liitigator and General Counsel in California for four years before moving to France, where she earned a Ph.D. in International Relations and Diplomacy from the American Graduate School in Paris. She is now a faculty member at AGS and at AGS's partner institution Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
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Professor Elizabeth Milovidov participated in a podcast on women's empowerment produced by the US State Department's 
This edition focused on the issue of gender equality and women's empowerment as one that is at the forefront of the US Foreign Policy. It explored the way this issue plays out particularly in the professional arena, with a discussion of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-selling book 
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