Feminist leader Betty Friedan will discuss whether Americans need a "values revolution" in a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. in Room 305 Ives Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Friedan also will participate in a faculty panel discussion about work and family issues in the workplace Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 4 p.m. in 105 Ives Hall. During her two-day visit to the Cornell campus, she will also meet with faculty and students.

Friedan joined the Cornell faculty as distinguished visiting professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) in April to direct a $1 million, four-year project in ILR's Institute for Women and Work that is attempting to transform the feminist ideals and practices she catalyzed more than 30 years ago into a broader societal and workplace agenda for the new century. The project, "New Paradigm: Women, Men, Work, Family and Public Policy," is supported by a $1 million grant from the Ford Foundation and is based in Washington, D.C., where a series of monthly symposia and other activities are under way.

Joining Friedan on the Dec. 2 Cornell panel discussion will be Francine D. Blau, the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and director of ILR's Institute for Labor Market Policy; Francine A. Moccio, director of the Institute for Women and Work; and Phyllis Moen, the Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies in the College of Human Ecology and director of Cornell's Employment and Family Careers Institute.

Founder of the National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus, Friedan is one of the world's foremost spokespersons on women's rights. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is widely recognized as the seminal work in the history of the

women's movement. Friedan's connection to Cornell dates back to 1972 when she played a key role in launching the first women's studies courses in the United States here. In her current faculty position, she will be most closely associated with ILR's Institute for Women and Work, a nationally known research and education center for the study of workplace and gender issues.