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  • Stand Up for Girls September 22, 2011
    Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 3:08pm
    Women make up two thirds of the world’s illiterate population. LitWorld, an international literacy organization, works to improve this figure through its mission to cultivate literacy in the...

  • Department of Commerce Releases STEM Gender Gap Report
    Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 2:20pm
     By Ariella Faitelson*The Department of Commerce Economic and Statistics Administration released a report (August 3rd) highlighting the importance of advancing women in Science, Technology,...

  • American Sports Council Attempts to Challenge Title IX
    Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 3:32pm
    By Ariella Faitelson*Nearly a week after the US Women’s Soccer Team faced off against Japan in the World Cup Finals, the American Sports Council (formerly known as the College Sports Council)...

  • Explorations on Women (Not) Running for Office – Part 3
    Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 10:46am
    By Rylee Sommers-FlanaganOver the last two weeks, Rylee explored what it means to be both an academic and everyday feminist and discussed her own research in the context of other scholarly work. This...

  • Teen Feminists Really Do Care About the Budget
    Monday, July 25, 2011 - 1:49pm
    By Talia WeisbergI had the amazing opportunity to participate in a NOW webinar moderated by Terry O’Neill, President of NOW, “The Budget Deal is a Feminist Issue.” The webinar...

  • Pathways to (Non)Profit
    Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 10:43am
    By Tunisia L. RileyOn June 23, The National Council for Research on Women’s Emerging Leaders Network and the Girl Scouts of the USA presented “Pathways to (Non)Profit.” This...

  • Explorations on Women (Not) Running for Office – Part 2
    Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 10:56am
    By Rylee Sommers-Flanagan*Last week, Rylee intermixed everyday feminism with an academic feminist perspective to explore why we should care whether fewer women than men run for office. This week,...

  • Budget Battles and Medicaid: Reframing the Debate
    Monday, July 18, 2011 - 12:06pm
    By Melissa StevensonAs an ever-growing proportion of state budgets and the second biggest state expenditure after education, Medicaid presents itself as an easy target when budget cuts are imminent....

  • Explorations on Women (Not) Running for Office – Part 1
    Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 10:35am
    By Rylee Sommers-FlanaganLast fall, I decided to write a thesis about women running for state legislative office. This choice—to research women in domestic politics rather than the...

  • A Feminist Approach to UN Women
    Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 12:02pm
    Margot Baruch, an NCRW AMEX Fellow, recently posted a blog analyzing the newly established UN Women program. She writes that in order “for UN Women to be effective, it needs to incorporate a...

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