ADVISORY/National Council for Research on Women Holds 5th Annual Women Who Make a Difference Awards Dinner on February 27.

News/Assignment Editors

ADVISORY...for Thursday (Feb. 27)

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  Honorees to Include: Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner of
 Human Rights; Marge Magner, COO of Citigroup's Global Consumer Group;
  Antonia Hernandez, President and General Council of MALDEF; Vivian
 Banta, Vice Chairman, Prudential Financial; and City University's The
             Feminist Press and Florence Howe, its Founder

     Dinner Preceded by Discussion With Mary Robinson Entitled "An
   Ethical and Humanitarian Approach to Globalization" at CAMI Hall

Who:    Linda Basch, Executive Director for the National Council for
        Research on Women (NCRW); Mary Robinson, former U.N. High
        Commissioner for Human Rights, former President of Ireland,
        and current Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative;
        Marge Magner, Chief Operating Officer, Citigroup Global
        Consumer Group; Antonia Hernandez, President and General
        Council, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
        (MALDEF); Vivian Banta, Vice Chairman, Prudential Financial,
        and Florence Howe, Founder/Publisher Director Emerita; 2002
        Dinner Co-Chairs: Sara Engelhardt, President, the Foundation
        Center; Jacki Hoffman-Zehner, Former Vice President, Goldman,
        Sachs & Co.; Eleanor Horne, Vice President, Educational
        Testing Service; and Donna Shavlik, The Timberline Group; 2002
        Corporate Co-Chairs: Roslyn Dickerson, Honeywell; Ana
        Duarte-McCarthy, Citigroup; Harriet Edelman, Avon Products,
        Inc.; Andrea Eisenberg, Right Management; Stephen J.
        Dannhauser, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP; Wayne Winborne,
        Prudential Financial; and Melinda Wolfe, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

When:   Thursday, February 27, 2003

Where:  Awards Dinner at 6:30 PM at the Essex House, 160 Central
        Park South, NYC; A Conversation with Mary Robinson -- "An
        Ethical and Humanitarian Approach to Globalization," at 4:30
        PM at CAMI Hall, 165 West 57th Street, NYC.

What:   NCRW is an alliance of 95 leading U.S. women's research and
        policy centers involved in advocacy and innovative programming
        for women and girls worldwide. Its annual dinner is an
        opportunity to honor extraordinary women leaders from across
        sectors for their accomplishments. Prior to the dinner, NCRW
        will present a Conversation with Mary Robinson entitled "An
        Ethical and Humanitarian Approach to Globalization." The
        discussion will also feature respondents Geeta Rao Gupta,
        President, International Center for Research on Women, and the
        Honorable Linda Tarr-Whelan, Tarr-Whelan and Associates Inc.,
        Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Commission on the Status of
        Women, Former President of the Center for Policy Alternatives.

RSVP:   Media who wish to cover either the dinner or pre-dinner
        lecture must RSVP. Please contact Sara Paris at:
        [phone], x15.