Diversity & Inclusion

CROW's brand of action-oriented, community-based research strengthens the public's understanding of women's experiences in Memphis and contributes to local, regional and national policy discussions.

Women's Academic Network
The Women's Academic Network provides women on our campus with an informal opportunity to meet new colleagues, socialize, and discuss topics of interest and relevance to women in academia.  

In addition to ongoing research, the Center:

* is heading a collaborative of over 50 Memphis organizations dedicated to reducing the numbers of teen pregnancy in our community.

* is working with other University of Memphis faculty, staff and students to create a Safe Zone for GLBTQ students on our campus.

Current Research Agenda for Spring 2010:

Extensive back list of working papers and bibliographies on Southern women and women of color. Contact CROW for list and order information.

Examples of recent publications include:

* Sagrestano, Lynda. 2009. Nowhere to hide: A Look At the Pervasive  Atmosphere of Sexual Harassment in Memphis Area Middle & High Schools.  

* CROW. 2008. Center for Research on Women: 2007-2008 Annual Report.

* Across Races & Nations: Building New Communities in the U.S. South, Published September 2006 by The Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis (TN); the Highlander Research and Education Center (TN); and the Southern Regional Council (GA). This 370-page report published in English and Spanish provides information to activists, philanthropists and others who seek to address immigration and the needs of immigrants as part of larger social justice agendas in the South. Includes project and participant overviews, case studies, glossaries of U.S. immigration terms and policies, economic fact sheets, maps, "Know Your Rights" workshop guides for immigrants, and other materials for popular education.

* What Is a Living Wage in Memphis?, David H. Ciscel, working paper (2002).

* Advocates for Girls: Promoting Success in Early Adolescence, Barbara Ellen Smith and Claire Porter (1998).

* Profiles: A Report on the Women and Girls of Greater Memphis, Martha Schmidt (1997).

Opportunities:

Current Research

Past Research Program Areas:

Intersections, Identities, and Inequalities (Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill, director)

This program area focuses on the development of theoretical, methodological and pedagogical approaches to the study of intersections of race, gender, class, ethnicity and other dimensions of inequality. It is an interdisciplinary research program area that seeks to elaborate how dimensions of inequality intersect, creating new and distinct social formations. This includes promoting research that contextualizes the lives and experiences of individuals and groups, as well as develops applications of knowledge to human problems. This scholarship embraces a wide range of approaches that permit complex and nuanced explorations. Intersectional analysis is also an effort to move beyond binary or oppositional analyses and toward an understanding of the ways the ideological, political, and economic systems of power construct and reconstruct one another. An intersectional approach, grounded in lived experience, provides the intellectual foundation for the pursuit of social justice.

Health and Social Well Being of Low Income Women, Children, and Families (Dr. Ruth E. Zambrana, director)

This program area seeks to build a more comprehensive and ethnic-specific scientific knowledge base on the effects of the intersection of poverty, institutional barriers, and other non-medical factors that contribute to adverse health status. This approach takes into account the influence of race, gender, and ethnicity to promote responsiveness in the development of future health interventions.

Material Culture/Visual Culture (Drs. Mary Corbin Sies and Angel David Nieves, co-directors)

The Material Culture/Visual Culture (MC/VC) program area is engaged in research on African American material and visual culture, and more generally on the material and visual culture of marginalized subgroups of North America. The group seeks to publicize the value of material and visual evidence for understanding the cultures of everyday life of American subcultures and to foster an environment in which scholars from different backgrounds can explore and refine research and theories for working with material and visual culture.

Schooling, Ethnic Communities and International Perspectives. (Dr. Lory J. Dance, director).

This Research Program Area is in the early stages of development. Led by sociologist Dr. Lory J. Dance, this area focuses on the uses of qualitative methodologies in the study of education in ethnic communities in the United States and internationally. The group also houses the Qualitative Research Interest Group (QRIG; co-directed by Drs. Lory J. Dance and Annette Lareau), which sponsored a colloquium series in fall 2005 on funding qualitative research projects.

Other Activities:

Intersectional Research Database. CRGE is home to the world's first online database devoted exclusively to intersectional research. The Intersectional Research Database (IRD), which was launched in summer 2005, currently features over 100 annotations of articles and books on intersectional issues. The IRD is updated weekly and will soon include audio, visual images, video and sound.

CRGE Graduate Colloquium. CRGE holds a monthly colloquium for graduate students that focuses on various topics related to intersectionality and social justice. Graduate students from across the disciplines participate through attendance and by sharing their own work at the end of each semester. Recent colloquium topics have dealt with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; interdisciplinary job talks; intersections and sexualities; and the commodification of Black youth, which was led by Dr. Patricia Hill Collins.

Research Interest Groups (RIGS). RIGS are smaller research groups, each sponsored by a Research Program Area. RIGS are collaborative, interdisciplinary groups that conduct intersectional research. The RIGS aim to create groups that can assist their members in preparing and submitting proposals for federal, state, and private sector research grants in CRGE Research Program Areas.

Visit: www.crge.umd.edu/qrig.html

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Feminist Thought & Scholarship

Sojourner Truth Women's Studies Collective. Founded in 1999, the Sojourner Collective is a feminist organization designed to support not only Comparative Women's Studies majors/minors but all people interested in progressive struggle to end sexist/racist/classist/heterosexist oppression.

Newsletter

Sisters of the Word, bi-annual newsletter.

Toni Cade Bambara Writer/Scholar/Activist Program and Collective. This unique internship/mentoring program, builds on a long tradition of black feminist scholar/activism at the College. Founded in 1985, this unique student leadership development program was renamed in 1996 in honor of the late scholar/activist Toni Cade Bambara. Bambara's writings and political activism reflected a profound understanding of the interconnections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. This program is designed to attract and help nurture committed students who are interested in becoming scholar/activists.

The Ms. Foundation for Women is dedicated to building women's collective power to ignite change. We seek opportunities to both proactively and reactively inform public policy, and obtain policy wins at the local, state, tribal and national level, with the ultimate goal of transforming the systems that govern women's lives.

We also aim to change the language, beliefs and behaviors that continue to hold women's oppression in place-particularly at the intersection of race, class and gender-and to shift public debate on key issues so that the perspectives of, and impact on, low income women and women of color are visible and addressed.

We support both cross-issue organizing and organizing within four broad areas of impact:

Women's Health

Reproductive Justice organizing and advocacy
Sexuality education organizing and advocacy
Women and HIV/AIDS policy advocacy and organizational capacity building
Access to health care coverage

Ending Violence

Community-based strategies to prevent child sexual abuse and violence against women and LGBTQ people
Strategies to engage men and boys in ending violence
Public education and media literacy
Youth-driven strategies

Economic Security

Organizing for better wages and working conditions, especially in female dominated sectors
Paid leave (including paid sick days and paid family leave)
Affordable, accessible quality child care
Access to health care coverage

Building Democracy

Building the infrastructure of organizations working for a progressive vision of democracy
Amplifying the voices of women of color, with a special emphasis on the Gulf South
Voter/civic engagement
Just immigration and refugee policies
Criminal Justice reform
Media Justice

Examples of funding initiatives across these broad and interconnected issue areas include:

Katrina Women's Response Fund: The Ms. Foundation responded immediately to the destruction and massive displacement caused by Hurricane Katrina by creating the Katrina Women's Response Fund. The Fund provides strategic support to meet the immediate needs of women of color and low-income women in the Gulf Coast region and ensure that their leadership and priorities are central in both short and long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts. By making grants to organizations throughout the region, the Katrina Women's Response Fund invests in the crucial infrastructure that promotes the health, safety, and economic well-being of women, their families and communities.

The Women and AIDS Fund: The Ms. Foundation for Women created the Women and AIDS Fund (WAF)to support organizations that advocate for policies and services that meet the needs of women with HIV/AIDS. WAF remains the only national fund that supports advocacy and self-determination by and for women living with this disease. By providing grants, technical assistance and networking opportunities to community-based organizations led by and for women who are HIV-positive, we contribute to the development of model approaches for women's HIV/AIDS advocacy that can be shared across the country. Our work has also helped create a national network of HIV-positive infected and affected women, called the National Women and AIDS Collective (NWAC), who strive to influence the ways in which policies are determined at the federal level.

The Reproductive Rights Coalition and Organizing Fund: The Ms. Foundation for Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition and Organizing Fund (RRCOF) has been a strong, responsive resource for state reproductive rights organizations across the United States since 1989. RRCOF provides grantmaking, technical assistance, and networking activities to strengthen state-level infrastructures and build critical, broad-based support for reproductive rights. RRCOF aims to increase the capacity of state and local reproductive rights organizations so that they can: 1) expand and mobilize their base of support; 2) reach a broader and more diverse audience; 3) frame reproductive rights and health in a broader health and social justice context; and 4) more effectively advocate for positive - and avert restrictive - reproductive health policies and programs.

Join our movement for social justice and help to bring the experience and solutions of women and girls to the challenging issues that impact women and their communities most. Learn more about how you can show your support. 

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Stir It UP: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy. Written by activist and trainer Rinku Sen, this publication examines the work of economic justice organizations funded by the Ms. Foundation and applies the lessons they learned to other community organizations. Sen also provides models and tools that any organization can use to successfully create social change and influence public policy.

Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us . Most Americans believe a job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it. Raise The Floor shows us how we can translate that belief into reality by raising the minimum wage. In addition to telling workers' stories, presenting original data, and proposing comprehensive policies, Raise The Floor spotlights businesses large and small that demonstrate how good wages are good business-in good economic times and bad.

Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty and Became Their Own Bosses. This publication tells the inspirational stories of eleven low-income women who have marshaled the creative energy, confidence, and capital necessary to start their own small businesses. These women, who have used their entrepreneurial skills as a route out of poverty, give an American face to an economic empowerment tool that has enjoyed great success in developing countries.

Ms. Foundation. 2009. Creating Connections, Igniting Change: Annual Report 2007-2008.

Ms. Foundation. 2009. Building Momentum to Sustain Social Change: Evaluation of the Katrina Women's Response Fund.  

Grants

Communications

Women in the Information Age. This research agenda is a collaboration of WAPPP and the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, which looks at how, compared to the Industrial Revolution, women currently occupy stronger and more visible positions in shaping the large-scale social, political, and industry changes that accompany the transition to the Information Age. Yet much needs to be done to bring women and girls into the cyber era on an equal footing with men and boys. This project will craft public and corporate policy agendas across the spectrum of issues that affect women in relation to information technology. In the year 2000-2001, experts in the field will come to the Kennedy School to participate in a lecture series and conference. The project will produce an edited volume analyzing women's experience with technology in the information age: their access to it, their use of it, and the power it can provide.

Recently, project director Jane Fountain was appointed to the Research Advisory Board of the Internet Policy Institute (IPI), based in Washington, DC. Chaired by former Netscape Communications CEO Jim Barksdale and GA Tech President Wayne Clough, IPI is considered the nation's first major independent, nonprofit research and educational body designed to study and interpret the Internet.

Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity

Race, Gender, and the Making of Public Policy Professionals. WAPPP-affiliated faculty member Carol Chetkovich heads this study of race, gender, and the making of public policy professionals, interviewing students at both the Kennedy School of Government and Berkeley.

Women of Color Podium. This ongoing initiative reaches across barriers of gender, class and ethnicity to bring diverse women to the Kennedy School, highlighting their work, adding their voices to the policy discussions carried on throughout the Harvard community, and providing role models to minority women students. Visiting women participate in public forums and other events, guest lecture in classrooms, contribute material for case studies highlighting achievements of women of color, and act as mentors. A recent addition to the initiative is the Women of Color Database, a resource for organizations to contact prominent women of color from varied fields of interest and occupation.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

The Harvard Unviersity Guide to Faculty Research in Gender and Public Policy. A WAPPP survey of the research being done throughout Harvard University, resulting in a resource that connects researchers, students and other scholars. The Guide to Faculty Research can be found on the website.

The Harvard University Guide to Gender-Related Courses. A comprehensive reference guide to all gender-related courses being offered at Harvard University designed to simplify the locating of gender-related courses and to make the process of studying gender easier for students. The Guide to Gender-Related Courses can be found on the WAPPP website.

The WAPPP Working Papers Series. The series provides a public forum for the distribution and publication of faculty and student research related to women and public policy and is available on the website.

Global Feminism
Peace and Conflict Resolution

Women Waging Peace. Launched in December 1999, this multi-year, global venture connects women addressing conflicts worldwide. The initiative breaks new ground by recognizing the essential role and contribution of women in preventing violent conflict, stopping war, reconstructing ravaged societies, and sustaining peace in fragile areas around the world. It has helped to bridge divides between communities in conflict, as well as among policy shapers, academics, and grassroots activists. During the public policy roundtable event on December 16, 1999, 100 delegates from conflict areas Armenia/Azerbaijan, Boston urban neighborhoods, Colombia, Cyprus, India/Pakistan, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland, the post-Yugoslav region, South Africa, and Sudan forged ties among themselves and with some 200 policy shapers-UN and World Bank officials, State Department officers, funders and journalists.

The second phase of the Women Waging Peace Initiative will add four new conflict areas: Sri Lanka, Russia, Rwanda, and Mexico. Delegates from all 14 areas, including ten delegates from each new area, will convene at the Kennedy School of Government in November 2000 for the second annual Women Waging Peace Conference. Delegates will continue their efforts to unite women and to support peace-making campaigns.

In June 2000 during the Beijing + 5 proceedings, female delegates from several conflict areas participated in a round table discussion on women's involvement in policymaking and conflict resolution. This discussion, entitled: "New Alliances: International Security and Women Waging Peace" at New York's 92nd Street YMCA, featured Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordon, General Wesley Clark, and Leon Fuerth, as well as eight representatives from conflict areas, in a discussion of women as peacemakers, women in conflict, and women at the policy table. The program was also mentioned in the foreign ministers' joint communiqué at the G-8 summit.

GRICAR: Gender Research in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. This project works at several tiers and across disciplines, linking gender research, professional practice in mediation and negotiation, and theories of conflict prevention, management and resolution. WAPPP cosponsors with the Kennedy School's Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) a six-week course on "Women and Grassroots: New Models for Social Cohesion in Divided Societies." Taught by Ambassador Swanee Hunt, students analyze women's experiences in international conflicts in terms of how they contribute to alternative approaches in political negotiation and conflict resolution, complement traditional government-led initiatives, and differ from men's approaches.

Leadership and Leadership Development

Women in International Development (WID). This program area provides an important venue for the exchange of research and experience relating to women and international development. It promotes the role of women leaders in global development and sponsors scholarly research to inform both policy discussion and current academic thought. This program area has three main areas of focus: the WID Student Group, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), and Banking on Russian Women. The WID Student Group fosters the study of the specific impact of economic and social development upon the work and livelihood of women. WIEGO is a worldwide coalition of institutions and individuals concerned with improving statistics, research programs, and policies in support of women in the informal sector of the economy. Banking on Russian Women, spearheaded by Russian economist Irina Ignatieva, is researching and designing an institution that will provide small loans to Russian women to start and expand their own businesses without demanding collateral.

Politics

Women Transforming Policy: Gender and International Relations. Does increasing the role of women in the foreign policy process affect public policy outcomes? How do men's and women's global political roles compare? What are the challenges and opportunities faced by women working in U.S. foreign policy? The goal of this program is to encourage a deeper joining of scholars and practitioners for the future in US foreign policy. A conference held in May 2000 focused on identifying successful models for bridging "thinkers and doers," analyzing action that extends beyond critique. The conference format was built around three major themes: war and peace, human rights and economic policy. In addition, WAPPP will continue to host select special individuals and groups, such as the 30 Foreign Service nationals (local employees at U.S. embassies worldwide) at the Kennedy School in a joint program with the United States Information Agency (USIA) in the fall of 2000.

Religion and Spirituality

Women, Religion, and Public Policy. This program area engages students, scholars, and activists in an examination of the intersection between women, religious institutions and traditions, and critical contemporary public policies. Critical engagement with these issues stems from the fact that many activists and policy makers on both the left and right describe their work as rooted in religious beliefs or experiences. The program operates under a broad definition of "public policy," reaching beyond actions of the state to include activities as diverse as charitable work, election-related educational campaigns, lobbying, press and electronic media activities, and other means of shaping civic values that underlie government policy decisions.

Women and Public Policy Program Working Paper Series
Series A

Differential Mortality and the Value of Individual Account Retirement Annuities, Jeffrey R. Brown (2000).

Peace with Justice, Peace with Care Palestinian and Israeli Women Negotiate Peacemaking Models, Dafna Vard Hochman, (2000).

Partisanship and the Impact of Candidate Gender in Congressional Elections: Results of an Experiment, David C. King (1999).

"Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent 'Yes,'" Jane Mansbridge (1999).

"'You're Too Independent!': Gender, Race and Class in the Production of Plural Feminisms," Jane Mansbridge (1998).

Breaking the Barriers: Positive Discrimination Policies for Women, Pippa Norris (2000).

The Gender Gap: Old Challenges, New Approaches,Pippa Norris (2000).

Gender and Contemporary British Politics, Pippa Norris (2000).

The Dynamics of the Framing Process: From Reagan's Gender Gap to Clinton's Soccer Moms, Pippa Norris (1997).

The Speeching of Sexual Harassment, Frederick Schauer (2000).

Women and Public Policy Program Working Paper Series
Series AA

Peace with Justice, Peace with Care: Palestinian and Israeli Women Negotiate Peacemaking Models, Dafna Vard Hochman (2000).

'Let's Not Change the Subject!' Deliberations on Abortion: on the Web, in the House, and in Abortion Dialogue Groups, Lamelle Rawlins (1999).

Gender and Conflict Resolution and Negotiation: What the Literature Tells Us, Bianca Cody Murphy and Ira Parghi (1999).

Papers About Women at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
Series AA

Women and Leadership at the Kennedy School: A Survey, Tara Sharafudeen, Mason Fellow (2000).

Papers Related to Women and Internet Speech

By Jean Camp: Women, Children, Animals and the Like: Protecting an Unwilling Electronic Populace, Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, March 28-31, 1995; Burlingame, CA; pp. 120-139. Co-authored by Donna Riley.

By Jean Camp: Bedrooms, Barrooms & Boardrooms on the Internet. Also co-authored by Donna Riley (1996).

Research Papers:

Greig, Fiona, and Iris Bohnet. 2009."Exploring gendered behavior in the field with experiments: Why public goods are provided by women in a Nairobi slum."

Research Fellowhip Program:

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* Employment

"Navigating a Consumer Marketing Career" panel discussion: A panel featuring consumer marketing careers, which attracted over 180 male and female students to hear four alumnae panelists discuss strategies and tactics on how to break into the consumer marketing field.

"Decisions in My Corporate Career": An event featuring four highly-successful corporate women and the choices they made throughout their careers.

"Career Strategies: A Woman's Perspective": A half-day student event focused on a variety of career-related panel presentations including; The Interviewer's Point of View, Executive Presence: The "It" in "She's Got It". Creative Strategies for Success in a Tough Market, Job Transition Success Stories and " How Do You Do It?" Work-Life Balance.

* Entrepreneurship

"Women in Family-Owned Businesses" (August 2003) : This ground-breaking first look at what makes woman-owned family businesses different was led by CWL and sponsored by MassMutual Life Insurance Company. The study compares and contrasts the businesses owned by women versus men. Highlights of the study show that woman-owned family businesses: h ave increased by 37% in the last five years, to 15.6% across the U.S; tend toward higher rates of productivity as well as philanthropy ; a nticipate a positive future for their companies (by a two-to-one ratio among respondents), despite a continued poor economy.

Gatekeepers of Venture Growth: The Role and Participation of Women in the Venture Capital Industry: Office Depot Women represent less than 10 percent of high-level venture capitalists, and they have been leaving the industry at twice the rate of men, according to a first-ever study released by the Kauffman Foundation at the Small Business Administration's entrepreneurship conference in Washington , DC . The study, Gatekeepers of Venture Growth , is the latest report of the Diana Project, a multi-year, multi-university study of women business owners and business growth opportunities. The research, coauthored by Undergraduate Dean Patricia Greene, ultimately seeks to determine whether having more women in decision-making roles in the venture capital industry would provide greater access to women entrepreneurs who seek funding.

The Top Woman-Led Businesses in Massachusetts : 2002 Results (November 2003): Research on over 225 woman-led businesses shows these firms leading the economic recovery:

* Revenues among the Top 100 woman-led businesses in the state exceeded $6.5 billion in 2002, with permanent employment of over 32,300 people.
* Woman-led businesses continue to thrive in professional services, high technology, and construction, industries that drive economic development.

* Growth at woman-led businesses has outpaced the general economy

"Women Building Businesses": a co-sponsored event with the Babson Entrepreneurial Exchange that brought dynamic female entrepreneurs to campus who discussed their journey and growing ventures.

* * Institutional Change

"Women Leading Change" Conference: A full-day conference focused on providing attendees with the tools they need to drive change, shape change, and lead change in their personal and business worlds.

* Work and Family

"Both Sides of Work and Family": A panel discussion with dual career couples on how they have achieved work/life balance.

New Research

CWL Newsletter: This monthly newsletter is available for online subscription at http://www.babson.edu/cwl/newsletter. It includes information about upcoming events, research, and Center news.

CWL and The Commonwealth Institute. The Top Woman-Led Businesses in Massachusetts: 2008 Critical Issue Survey.

Allen, I. Elaine, PhD, Nan Langowitz DBA, and Maria Minniti, PhD. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2006 Report on Women and Entrepreneurship.

Grants and Scholarships

Coalition for Women Students

CWS has been the leader in making relevant social and political issues prominent at WSU. Programming has been intended to educated students on foreign and domestic affairs since the 1920s. CWS has always focused on events for students and has become involved in political activities and advocating for safety, equity, and diversity on campus. Currently, CWS is comprised of five groups: The Association for Pacific and Asian Women, Black Women's Caucus, Mujeres Unidas, Native American Women's Association, and the YWCA of WSU. CWS also funds two other organizations: the Women's Transit Program and the NEW Leadership Summer Institute. CWS symbolizes unity and diversity by representing the interests of women from diverse cultural background. CWS and its coalition groups sponsor programs and activities that heighten students' awareness of issues pertaining to class, race and gender.

Take Back the Night 

The Take Back the Night march is an annual event, bringing together the Pullman and WSU Community in solidarity against violence. It begins on the Glenn Terrell Mall and winds around campus, ending near the Coliseum. A short candle-light vigil will follow the march, giving us a moment to reflect on the effects of violence on the lives of victims, survivors, family, friends, and the larger community. 

Women Making History

The Women's Resource Center assumes responsibility for coodinating the Women's History Month Celebration at Washington State University. A wide range of activities are organized and supported by many colleges, departments and student organizations. The Women's Resource Center also presents the Women's Recognition Luncheon during which the WSU Women of Distinction and Women of the year are honored. 

Commission on the Status of Women

Appointed by the President, the Commission on the Status of Women gathers data and makes recommendations on issues relevant to women at Washington State Unversity. The Commission prepares a five-year report, which serves as a framework for institutional change. As member of the Commission Executive Board, the Center provides guidance and on-going support for the Commission.

New Leadership

National Education for Women’s (NEW) Leadership Inland Northwest is a residential institute designed to empower college women to become involved in the political process. Participants interact with women from a variety of political and policy-making positions to develop their own concepts of leadership. To achieve full impact of the program and meet program graduation requirements, participants are expected to attend and actively engage in all scheduled activities and sessions.

Mom's Weekend

Mom's Weekend is a fun-packed tradition for families and friends of Washington State University students to honor their mothers and showcase their contributions to the University.

Women's Transit

Women's Transit Program is funded through the Coalition for Women Students with Student Services and Activities Fees. It is a program under the direction of the Women's Resource Center with Turea Erwin, Director, Mary Anderson, Program Coordinator, and two Student Assistants and around 160 Volunteers.

Commission on the Status of Women. 2000. The Staus of Women at Washington State University: Commission on the Status of Women Report to the President, 1995-2000 .The Commission prepares a five-year report, which serves as a framework for institutional change.

Women's Resource Center. 1999. HECB Gender Equity Report. The HECB Gender Equity Report assesses institutional compliance with TitleIX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender in education programs receiving federal funds. At two-year intervals the Center prepares an assessment of the progress made in nine key areas including: access to higher education, athletics, career education, student employment, learning environment, math and science, sexual harassement/sexual assault, counseling services, parenting students.

Women's Resource Center. Sexual Assault Prevention Resource Guide. The Women's Resource Center publishes a Sexual Assault Prevention Resource Guide to provide general information about policies, programs, and services pertaining to sexual assault prevention, educational outreach, and survivor support. It is our intention to inform members of Washington State University and Pullman communities of the serious nature of sexual violence and its impact on our society. Sexual assault affects people regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnic origin, and economic status.

National Statistics on Women. 2007.

Women's Resource Center Newsletter

Graduate Women in Science

The first GWIS chapter, Alpha, was started in Cornell, NY, while the second chapter (Beta) was in Madison, WI. These chapters are still in existence today, along with 16+ other chapters in the US and international. Members include graduate students, post docs, as well as the professionals in industry, or higher education. Disciplines are numerous, ranging from social scientists to basic scientists in all areas of science.