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Stellar Honorees -- NCRW Celebrates 30th Anniversary March 6th
vivhdem
At a stellar gathering of leaders from business, philanthropy, government, and non-profits, the National Council for Research on Women will kick off...
International Women's Day Turns 100
Kate Meyer
Not often do we stop and look back at all that has been accomplished by and for women in the past 100 years. But yesterday, on the 100th anniversary...
Our Opportunity for International Women’s Day
Kyla Bender-Baird
By Tiffany Dufu*I took the helm at The White House Project at an interesting moment for women. Last week’s report from the White House, which...
An Inventive Tribute to International Women's Day
Kyla Bender-Baird
By Teresa BagleyFeminism shouldn't be exclusive to scholars, advocates, researchers and policy wonks. Women's issues affect all of us, and this is an...
Women and Leadership in America
jonathan
By Shyama Venkateswar, Ph.D.*I’m just back from a family vacation in India where I was struck by the healthy public debates and frequent news...

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Linda Perkins
Linda M. Perkins is Associate Professor of the Claremont Graduate University. She holds an interdisciplinary university appointment in the...
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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...
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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...

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  • What Gender Gap? Washington State Has a History of Women Who Lead
    April 4, 2012

     For Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, it has been a somewhat strange dynamic. They are not in the minority among politicians in their home state, but they are at the national level, and as such, have been called on to speak up for women...
  • Study: Female australopiths seek brave new world
    June 1, 2011

    University of Colorado at Boulder researchers who conducted a chemical analysis of australopithecine fossils ranging between roughly 1.8 million and 2.2 million years old from two South African caves found that teeth thought to belong to females are...
  • The women presidents of Latin America
    October 31, 2010

    BBC: "Dilma Rousseff has just been elected President of Brazil, making her the country's first female president. She is the latest woman in Latin America to take up the top job. BBC News profiles the women presidents of the region - both past and...
  • (Audio) Book Review: 'Girls Don't Cry':
    September 21, 2010

    NPR: Maureen Corrigan reviews Rebecca Traister's new book: Big Girls Don't Cry: the election that changed everything for American women, and details how Traister dissects the cultural narratives that held so much power during the 2008...
  • The Female Factor: will three women really change the court?
    August 30, 2010

    Newsweek: For the first time in history, there will be three women on the Supreme Court.  The presence of three women will give the female justices a chance to have their voices heard, influence the male judges on gender-related issues, and...