Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

In 1970, the field of women’s, gender and feminist studies was launched and was able to thrive in the ensuing years. NCRW was established in 1982 to create a supportive network for the burgeoning women’s research movement. Today, there are more than 900 women’s studies programs in the US with more than 10,000 courses offered on college campuses. Much of the curriculum is interdisciplinary and, in many instances, mainstreamed across subject areas. From the social sciences to liberal arts, fine arts and the sciences, feminist theory and framing (especially the intersection of race, gender and class) is having an important impact across disciplines in academia and beyond.

Gender Equality Explorer

Submitted by asklar on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 2:18am

GENDER EQUALITY Explorer provides free, 24/7, user-friendly access to data disaggregated by gender from the U.S. Census Bureau collected through the American Community Survey.

URL: 
http://genderequalityexplorer.org/

Making Macroeconomics Work for US: A Feminist Perspective

Submitted by asklar on Thu, 12/01/2011 - 11:12am

As the world experiences increasing inequalities and gaps between and within countries, women’s rights organizations are working to challenge current hegemonic systems and develop alternatives for change. Building on feminist economic analyses, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) is undertaking the production of periodic briefs - Nexus: Shaping Feminist Visions in the 21st Century - to enhance women’s leadership for the realization of human rights. The briefs aim to both engender analytical and practical approaches to human rights in general, and economic and social rights in particular, as well as strengthen the capacity of feminist and social justice movements.

Brief Number 1 - "Making Macroeconomics Work For US: A Feminist Perspective" - highlights linkages between macroeconomics and human rights in order to better inform discussions about solutions to the current economic crisis in the United States.

URL: 
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/globalcenter/publications/nexus/October%202011%20Brief%201.pdf
Member Organization: 
Center for Women's Global Leadership

Would Women Leaders Have Prevented the Global Financial Crisis? Implications for Teaching about Gender and Economics

Submitted by asklar on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 10:45am

Would having more women in leadership have prevented the financial crisis? This question challenges feminist economists to once again address questions of "difference" versus "sameness" that have engaged—and often divided—academic feminists for decades. The first part of this essay argues that while some behavioral research seems to support an exaggerated"difference" view, non-simplistic behavioral research can serve feminist libratory purposes by debunking this view and revealing the immense unconscious power of stereotyping, as well as the possibility of non-dualist understandings of gender. The second part of this essay argues that the more urgently needed gender analysis of the financial industry is not concerned with (presumed) "differences" by sex, but rather with the role of gender biases in the social construction of markets.

URL: 
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/wp/11-03NelsonWomenLeaders.pdf

Leadership in Higher Education: A Path to Greater Racial and Gender Diversity final report

Submitted by vivhdem on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 1:27pm

In 2003, with support from the Ford Foundation, the National Council for Research on Women undertook a project to explore the impact of leadership on diversity in institutions of higher education. The project was designed to identify best practices for enhancing diversity among students, staff, faculty, and within the curriculum; to identify leadership models provided by administrators and faculty that create and sustain greater diversity; and to analyze the institutional architecture necessary to support those practices. The analysis was to be based on the actual experiences of higher education leaders, their visions and strategies as identified in site visits to campuses and in the latest data and scholarship on diversity and leadership.

 

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How to Write Successful Grants to Advance Women in Science

Submitted by sbanerjee on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 10:59am
Member Organization: 
National Women's Studies Association
Date/Time: 
04/26/2011

The National Women's Studies Association is pleased to offer an interactive audiovisual workshop on how to successfully navigate the National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant process. ADVANCE grants are intended to increase the participation and advancement of women in academic and science engineering careers.

Led by successful NSF ADVANCE grant-seekers, this webinar is designed to offer useful insight into the grant-seeking process. Participants can expect to learn how to develop and cultivate collaborations between women's studies and the sciences and how to write successful grants.

NWSA offers this ongoing series of professional development trainings to support women’s studies and women’s center professionals and strengthen the field.

DATE: Tuesday, April 26
TIME: 4:00-5:15 PM Eastern
FEE: $75 members, $100 non-members

FEMINISTING ON TOUR: Offline and Unfiltered

Submitted by sbanerjee on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 11:37am
Member Organization: 
Center for Entrepreneurial Women’s Leadership
Date/Time: 
03/24/2011

An Open Discussion: Let's Talk About the "F" Word

 A Panel Featuring Three Feministing Editors and Babson student Lexi Toorok

Showcasing the New Voice of Feminism - Be inspired and challenged by the voices of this generation who are making their marks and taking their places at the table. This lively thought - provoking conversation will highlight the efforts underway to effect change for women at grassroots, national and global levels.

Samhita Mukhopadhyay is the Executive Editor of Feministing.com

Miriam Zoila Pérez is a blogger, activist and Radical Doula

Vanessa Valenti, a co-founder of Feministing and online strategist

Lexi Toorok, Babson College student

Passionate Politics: The Life & Work of Charlotte Bunch

Submitted by sbanerjee on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 1:33am
Member Organization: 
Center for the Study of Women and Society
Date/Time: 
04/14/2011

Passionate Politics: The Life & Work of Charlotte Bunch

A New One-Hour Documentary by Tami Gold

This new film tells the story of Charlotte Bunch, from idealistic young civil rights organizer to lesbian activist, to internationally-recognized leaders of a campaign to put women's rights on the global human rights agenda. Charlotte has been both a product and creator of her times: every chapter in her life is a chapter in the story of the modern feminist activism, from its roots in the 1960s struggles for social justice to international campaigns against gender-based violence today.

Film Showing:

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Louise Lamphere is a Distinguished Professor of Anthopology Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and Past President of the American Anthropological Association. During 2001-2002 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City and was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University in Fall 2007. Her first major publication was Woman, Culture and Society co-edited with Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo (1974). And her book on Navajo family life, To Run After Them: The Social and Cultural Bases of Cooperation in a Navajo Community, was published in 1977. She has studied issues of women and work for 25 years, beginning with her study of women workers in Rhode Island industry, From Working Daughters to Working Mothers (1977).

Location

Albuquerque, NM 87131Louise Lamp
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Jamia Wilson is Vice President of Programs at the Women’s Media Center. Jamia has a strong background in youth leadership development, grassroots organizing, and communications. She worked for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where she managed their youth outreach program Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood and served on the PPFA Structure and Governance Committee and the Pro-Choice Education Project Steering Committee. After working with coalition partners and campus organizations to help bring thousands of students to the historic March for Women’s Lives, Jamia was honored as one of the “Real Hot 100" by the Younger Women’s Taskforce.

Location

New York, NY 10001
United States
40° 45' 5.7276" N, 74° 0' 15.9588" W
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