Katherine Turk, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will speak about postwar feminist politics and the challenges of defining and creating gender equality amidst diverse populations of workers. Her talk will take place at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, in the James J. Johnson Auditorium at Coastal Carolina University. This event is free and open to the public with a reception to follow.

Turk will discuss her book "Equality on Trial: Sex and Gender at Work in the Age of Title VII," which examines struggles to identify and implement state-enforced workplace gender equality between the 1960s and the 1990s.

Turk earned a Ph.D. in United States history from the University of Chicago and specializes in the history of women, gender and sexuality, law and social movements, and 20th century United States.

The Johnson Auditorium is in Room 116 of the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration, located at 119 Chanticleer Drive E. in Conway.

For more information, call Julinna C. Oxley, director of CCU's Women's and Gender Studies program, at 843-349-6548 or email at joxley@coastal.edu.