* The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
The WSRC houses The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) - the world's first university-based research institute devoted to the study of Jews and gender. The mission of HBI is to produce and promote scholarly and artistic projects and to build a strong, international network of Jewish women.
* Student-Scholar Partnership Program
The goal of the Student-Scholar Partnership is to match undergraduate women and men with scholars at the WSRC and faculty affiliated with the Women's Studies Program to work collaboratively on research or artistic projects. The emphasis of the program is to enable students and scholars/faculty to work collectively on projects that focus on women and women's issues in many different fields. Two unique aspects of the program include emphasis on mentoring and students' contributions to the projects. The program supports the important work that the scholars/faculty are conducting on women's lives and provides Brandeis undergraduates with a unique opportunity to work closely with established professionals in their field of interest.
* The Arts Program
The Arts Program creates a space for the display of and education about women's art. The Program presents exhibitions in the Kniznick Gallery with a particular focus on the display of women's artwork, and provide information on women artists and their achievements. The program also makes studio space, "a space of one's own," available to women artists, and offers educational opportunities and programming to Brandeis students, outside schools, and adult groups.
* The Scholars Program
The Scholars Program of the WSRC is an innovative and mutually supportive community of qualified scholars engaged in significant research and artistic endeavors. Working in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences and their intersections, our mission is to focus on questions related to women's lives and gender dynamics. The scholars make intellectual contributions to the local, national, and international communities and advance the social justice mission of the University.
* C-Change: National Initiative on Gender, Culture, & Leadership in Medicine
The Women’s Studies Research Center, in partnership with five of the country’s leading medical schools, the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), and Brandeis’ Sociology Department is conducting a landmark study to better understand the intransigent under-representation of women and minority faculty in leadership and senior roles in academic medicine, and to develop effective solutions to the long-standing problem. Recognizing the under-representation of women in leadership positions to be a problem in its own right but also a model for the marginalization of others in academic medicine, the study also examines lack of advancement for under-represented minority and generalist medical faculty. The study is led by Dr. Linda Pololi, Senior Scientist and Scholar.
Founded and directed by WSRC Scholar, Paula Doress-Worters, The Ernestine Rose Society works to revive the legacy of "America's first feminist leader." Recognizing Ernestine Rose's pioneering role in the first wave of feminism, the Society is committed to raising awareness about Ernestine, who did so much to promote women's rights in the United States and internationally. For more information about Ernestine Rose or the Ernestine Rose Society, please visit our website.
Founded by WSRC Resident Scholar, Liane Curtis, The Rebecca Clarke Society honors the life and work of composer and violist Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979). The Society encourages and supports performances, recordings, publications, writings, and scholarship concerning Clarke and her music.
The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, the nation’s first independent reporting center based at a university, was launched in September 2004. Here, seasoned journalists (including WSRC Resident Scholar E.J. Graff, who heads the Institute’s Gender & Justice Project) investigate suspected injustices—and then take our results public, via mainstream and thought-leader publications, broadcasts, and web magazines. We identify, investigate, and cover urgent social issues that aren’t reported, are under-reported, or are mis-reported. We thereby help shape the nation’s public policy agenda.
The WAGE Project, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to end wage discrimination against women in the American workplace in the near future. Our nickname, WAGE, reminds us of the goal we pursue: Women Are Getting Even. WAGE inspires and helps working women take the steps needed so that every woman is paid what she’s worth. The organization is led by WSRC Scholar Evelyn F. Murphy, author of Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It.
In honor of Mother’s Day, the Census Bureau released a handy-dandy fact sheet on motherhood. Here are some of the stats they compiled:
