The Women's Freedom Network Newsletter May/June, 2000, Vol. 7, Number 3. WOMEN'S FREEDOM NETWORK AWARDS - National Press Club, Washington, D.C. Acceptance Speeches for WFN Gender Equity Award Winners Judith Kleinfeld and Mary Ann Glendon by Claire Morgan

O n May 15, 2000, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Judith Kleinfeld, Professor of Psychology and Director of Northern Studies at the University of Alaska, along with Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University Law School, accepted the Women's Freedom Network Achievement Award. Professors Glendon and Kleinfeld were honored for their long time, important and distinguished service to scholarship, for their contributions to public policy, and because of their work, their ideas, and the positions they have assumed, which have helped to make this world a better place in which to live.

Rita J. Simon, President of Women's Freedom Network, presented the award to Dr. Kleinfeld, and the Honorable Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld, from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, presented Dr. Glendon with her award. What follows are the acceptance speeches from both honorees.

* What's the Point? by Judith Kleinfeld.

* What Would My Mother Have Thought of Women's Freedom Network? by Mary Ann Glendon