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30 Leaders Who Are Changing the Way the World Looks at Women

On our 30th Anniversary we are recognizing 30 stellar women from diverse corners of our broad...

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MISSING Information About Women's Lives

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Member Organizations

Institute for Research on Women and Gender

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI
Shirley Chisholm Center for Research on Women

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn, NY
Southwest Institute for Research on Women

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ
Women's eNews

New York, NY
Women's Research and Education Institute

Washington, DC
Women's Research Institute of Nevada

University of Nevada

Las Vegas, NV

Resources

Women of the Oklahoma Legislature oral history project
Thirty-Three Years of Women in S&E Faculty Positions

The relatively low proportion of women in academic science and engineering (S&E) has been...
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History, Stephanie Y. Evans (2008)

Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History, Stephanie Y. Evans (2008),...
Campus Action Project 2008-2009: Where the Girls Are: Promoting Equity for All

"Women and Girls" is a comprehensive look at girls' and women's educational progress...
A Measure of Equity: Women's Progress in Higher Education

The Association of American Colleges and Universities has released a report that compiles the...

Blog Posts

Texas Scaredy-Cats

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Rylee Sommers-Flanagan*History is a collective story. It is selectively written, representing even unintended preferences of its author, and it is...

A Brief History of the Women's Donor Activist Movement

jzeilinger@ncrw.org

This video was inspired by historian Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner who brilliantly determined to preserve and document the writings of suffragist Matilda...

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...

Happy Birthday, Mariam!

Kyla Bender-Baird

The founding president of the National Council for Research on Women, Mariam Chamberlain, just turned 92. Gwendolyn Beetham, a former NCRW staff...

Know Your History: Jeannette Rankin

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Kyla Bender-Baird As most of you know, March is Women’s History Month--a month dedicated to remembering all those amazing female figures too...

Member Experts

Linda Perkins

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

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

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...
Why Young Women Need Feminism (Editorial)

March 23, 2010

"All my life, I was told that men and women were equal—so equal, in fact, that it wasn't even worthy of discussion. Like most of my friends, I outpaced my brothers and many of my male peers by a landslide in school, and took on...
Sexism at Work: Young Women, Newsweek, and Gender

March 19, 2010

In 1970, 46 women filed a landmark gender-discrimination case; their employer was NEWSWEEK. Forty years later, their contemporary counterparts question how much has actually changed.
Risk and Opportunity for Women in 21st Century

March 5, 2010

The quiet revolution that has seen women across the developed world catch up with men in the work force and in education has also touched science, that most stubbornly male bastion.
Mother Mary MacKillop becomes 1st Australian saint

February 19, 2010

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