NCRW Fact Sheets and Briefs
Women and Educational Disparities–A Call to Action (pdf, 394 KB)
Member Center Reports
Georgia Institute of Technology- Center for the Study of Women, Science & Technology
The Center’s program Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS) was featured in a recent addition of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The front-page article featured Inman Middle School’s GEMS club. The middle schoolers work with students from Georgia Tech’s Center for the Study of Women, Science & Technology. The article can be found here: http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2009/02/09/girlscience0209.html
University of Arizona Southwest Institute for Research on Women
Eastablished at the University of Arizona in 1976 the University of Arizona’s Women in Science and Technology (WISE) program encourages women to become leaders in the fields of science and technology. More information can be found here: http://ws.web.arizona.edu/people/staff/powell.pho
The Association of American Colleges and Universities
The Association of American Colleges and Universities has released a report that compiles the latest data on women and gender equity in higher education. The report, “A Measure of Equity: Women’s Progress in Higher Education,” made its debut in Seattle during the association’s annual meeting, which ended on January 24, 2009. The report updates a 1995 “data-driven” overview of women in higher education published by the American Council of Education, the association said in a written statement. It concludes that women have made strides in higher education, but the progress isn’t across the board. Among the topics explored in “A Measure of Equity” are inequities for women in specific fields, how the careers of female faculty members are affected by families, and the growing pool of women in contingent faculty positions with no chance of being promoted.
http://chronicle.com/news/article/5847/report-looks-at-how-far-women-have-come-in-higher-education
Los Angeles- Higher Education Research Institute, University of California
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/index.php
Reinforcing Differences: College and the Gender Gap, a book in progress by Linda J. Sax analyzes the impact of college experiences separately for male and female students.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/gender_gap.html
American Association of University Women
“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 over the past 35 years, from elementary school to college and beyond. Despite overall gains, the report highlights specific groups of women and girls for whom progress has been slower. The objective of this year’s CAP program is to provide a platform for campus programming that is informed by this research.
http://www.aauw.org/education/cap/wheregirlsare.cfm
Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History, Stephanie Y. Evans (2008), chronicles Black women’s struggle for access to higher education. http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=evansf06
Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan
“Michigan Women and the High-Tech Knowledge Economy,” Susan Kaufmann (2008), explores barriers girls and women experience while outlining actions that state and federal government, local school boards, colleges and universities, and Michigan families can take to ensure that women take their full place in the highly-trained technology workforce.
CEW Brief: “Access to Higher Education: Barriers and Benefits,” a fact sheet on access to higher education in Michigan and the U.S. http://www.cew.umich.edu/cewaction/facts.html
Member Center Activities
National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
In November of 2009 the NWSA will hold their annual conference, Difficult Dialogues. The conference will examine how feminist intellectual, political, and institutional practices cannot be adequately practiced if the politics of gender are conceptualized (overtly or implicitly) as superseding or transcending the politics of race, sexuality, social class, nation, and disability. Click here, http://www.nwsaconference.org/cms/ for more information or registration.
Girls Inc.
In July of 2009, Girls Inc. Chief Operating Officer Dr. Marcia Brumit Kropf testified at a Congressional hearing held by the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, a part of the Committee on Science and Technology. The hearing focused on examining current research findings, best practices, and the role of federal agencies in increasing the interest of girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in primary and secondary school.
Additional information and text of the full testimony can be found here: http://www.girlsinc.org/news/girls-inc-spotlight.html
The Department of Women’s Studies, University of Cincinnati
http://asweb.artsci.uc.edu/womens_studies/
Project: Members of the University’s Diversity Council are working to “lessen the obvious problems with a predominantly white male faculty.”
Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, University of Maryland
Project: Intersections, Identities, and Inequalities in Higher Education seeks to explore the challenges of constructing knowledge that will affect public policy and bring about social change and social justice, Bonnie Thornton Dill. http://www.crge.umd.edu/research/intersections.html
National Women’s Studies Association
Project: Data collection on the field of women’s studies nationally including a searchable database on faculty diversity data. http://www.nwsa.org/projects/database/index.php
Center for Women Policy Studies
http://www.centerwomenpolicy.org/
Project: Project EMPOWER (Effective Models of Postsecondary Opportunity for Women through Education Reform) identifies “best practices” in both public policy and postsecondary educational institutions that create educational opportunities for low income women students.
Busan Ulsan Gyeongnam Institute for Supporting Women in Science & Technology (BIS-WIST)
Project: “Three-Steptrack Program” This program promotes women in science and technology by helping to build their confidence and find employment utilizing three steps training. Step one provides women with mentors from various professions to gain insight into the field. Step two offers training courses to further their communication skills and Step three prepares women in the actual process of finding employment.
http://www.wist.re.kr/biseng/programs/edu_three.jsp
Project: “ESA Program” This program assists women doctors in the field of science and technology to maintain proficiency in written and verbal skills through continuing education courses. The program aims to mobilize women in science and technology who will ultimately advance the community.
http://www.wist.re.kr/biseng/programs/emp_eas.jsp
Center for Research on Women & Gender, University of Illinois, Chicago
CRWG houses the Women in Science & Engineering program that works to end educational disparities between women and men studying science, math, engineering, and technology. They are also engaged with the Chicago Public schools and community organizations in order to assist pre-college girls.
Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College
Event: “Equity in Education,” a panel featuring Anita Hill, J.D., Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D., and Nan Stein, Ed.D. that brought different perspectives and areas of expertise to the discussion on disparities in education.
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan
Event: “Women as Equals: A Comparative Study of Life Choices in the United States and Northern Ireland/United Kingdom,” a presentation by Eileen Sung on the laws and policies that seek to remove many barriers which restrict women’s equality and address pay and lifestyle disparities, September 19, 2008.
Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/wappp/what/index.html
WAPPP supports research on the gender gaps in education in the US and internationally. Currently, one of their research fellows, Martina Viarengo, is examining the reversal of the college gender gap in Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) countries.