Women bring own lives to panel

What better way to understand gender equity issues than toconsider your experiences as a woman?

Paula Wolff and Jayne Carr Thompson did.

Wolff, chairwoman of Gov. Edgar's newly formed Commission on theStatus of Women, remembered going to a job interview seven monthspregnant and finding out firsthand what discrimination felt like.Commission member Thompson, beginning at age 15, had to work her waythrough college and law school as a secretary and a researcher.Now they and other commission members will use their lifeexperiences to tackle gender issues as part of the 21-member group.Wolff, the president of Governors State University, said at apress conference in …