Women's & Girls' Leadership

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Reports & Publications

WOMEN GO GLOBAL CD-ROM

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:31am

Effective_Philanthropy

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:30am

THE GIRLS REPORT: What We Know & Need to Know About Growing Up Female

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:29am

Balancing the Equation: Where are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering, and Technology?

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:26am

Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:22am

Member Organizations

Barnard Center for Research on Women

Barnard College

New York, NY
The Big Five What’s at Stake for Women and the Nation

The Big Five

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Center for Ethics in Action

University of New England

Portland, ME
Center for the Study of Women and Society

The Graduate Center, CUNY

New York, NY
The Feminist Majority Foundation

Arlington, VA
Five College Women's Studies Research Center

Mount Holyoke College

South Hadley, MA

Resources

What the Women Say: The Arab Spring and Implications for Women

ICAN's first MENA regional issue brief.

As the Arab world rumbles and...
NWLC Fact Sheet: The Department Of Education Puts The Teeth Back In Title IX By Revoking a Damaging 2005 Athletics Policy

On April 20, 2010, the Department of Education issued a new policy document...
Indoor Air May be Hazardous to Women's Health

Vacuuming the carpet, making the bed, cooking dinner, or using room freshener may be hazardous...
Women’s Suffrage, Political Responsiveness and Child Survival in American History

Women’s choices appear to emphasize child welfare more than those of men. This paper...

Blog Posts

Microphones for Justice: Mother’s Day Delegation Tackles Anti-Immigration Legislation

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Sarah Gold*A Mother’s Day Delegation of feminists and labor activists from around the country convened in Arizona a few weeks ago to...

Responding to Street Harassment, Hollaback! style

Kyla Bender-Baird

Hollaback! has been documenting street harassment for half a decade and is poised to take it to the next level: an iPhone app. Not familiar with this...

The legal system as a tool to protect women’s rights

Kyla Bender-Baird

by Ruth Schechter Originally posted May 16, 2010 on Gender News from the Clayman Institute for Gender ResearchGlobally, women face a unique range of...

Charlotte Bunch Tribute to Rhonda Copelon

Kyla Bender-Baird

In today's WMC Exclusive, "An Architect of Feminist Human Rights Law," human rights leader and feminist foremother Charlotte Bunch offers a...

Reconstructing Haiti with Women & Girls at the Center

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Tunisia L. Riley*On May 4, 2010 I sat in a packed room of women (and a few men) coming together to raise awareness of women and girls efforts in...

Member Experts

Áine Duggan

Lynda Sagrestano

Lynda M. Sagrestano, Ph.D. is the Director of the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis. She earned a Ph.D. in social psychology...

Tiffany Dufu

Ever since she accepted the Girl of the Year Award in eighth grade, Tiffany Dufu knew that she wanted to make a profound impact. Raised in the...

Jamia Wilson

Jamia Wilson is Vice President of Programs at the Women’s Media Center. Jamia has a strong background in youth leadership development...

Gloria Jacobs

Gloria Jacobs is Executive Director of the Feminist Press, a non-profit publisher affiliated with the City University of New York. The Press has been...

Kyla Bender-Baird

Kyla Bender-Baird, Research and Programs Manager, is providing the Council with a wide range of research and communications support. She received a...

Lisa McClain

Dr. Lisa McClain is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Gender Studies at Boise State University. She researches the issue of...

News

In 'new Egypt', mobs sexually assault women with impunity

June 7, 2012

The Associated Press reports on that reports of assaults on women in Tahrir Square have been on the rise.
Feminists warn US hopefuls not to erode women's gains

March 2, 2012

Feminists in the United States, "fed up" with election-year attempts to erode their hard-won gains, issued a sharp reminder that women make up a voting bloc that cannot be ignored.
The Women of Tahrir

December 22, 2011

On Tuesday, thousands of women—the Associated Press’s estimate put the number at ten thousand—went to Tahrir Square to protest. (According to Reuters, the women were “surrounded by men pledging to protect them.”)...
Who's Afraid of Post-Feminism? What It Means To Be A Feminist Today

December 19, 2011

Jenna Goudreau asks what feminism means today and reports on her poll of change-makers from across generations—from the old guard of the women’s liberation movement to business trailblazers and millennial women reclaiming and...
The Saudi 'study' that finds all women drivers on the road to immorality

December 9, 2011

Critiques the methodology used by Professor Kamal al-Subhi, the American-educated retired professor in Saudi Arabia who took it upon himself to prepare a scientific study on the effects of women driving on society.
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