Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

Leadership and Leadership Development

WINGS. Eight-month, memntoring program that  links Rutgers undergraduates with senior professional women.  

CLASP. Five-week, Rutgers undergraduate summer service-learning program which places students in social justice internships.

Executive Leadership Program For Women. Intensive workshop series for women leaders holding senior-level positions in industry, the professions, and Non-Profit Organizations.    

Scholars Program for Women's Leadership and Social Change.The IWL Leadership Scholars Program has an interdisciplinary focus and is designed to prepare undergraduate students to be informed and responsible leaders. Women's leadership is explored within such diverse areas as Congressional offices, scientific laboratories, community volunteer projects, classrooms, corporate board rooms, and more. The program involves a coordinated academic sequence that introduces students to effective models of leadership.

Transforming Lives-Women's Leadership Interview Project. The purpose of the Transforming Lives project is to inspire and empower women of all ages to make positive change in their own lives, in their communities, in our state, nation, and the world. This educational initiative is a significant opportunity for Rutgers undergraduate students in the IWL Leadership Scholars Certificate Program to learn about leadership from women change makers, and to gain an understanding of the use of media as a vital tool for creating social change in the 21st century. 

NJ WomenCount. NJ WomenCount began as an Institute research project in 1993, was reborn in the fall of 2001 as a research partnership between Rutgers’ Institute for Women’s Leadership and the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, the Division on Women, and is once again a stand-alone research project at the IWL. The reports in the series focus on the status of New Jersey women in key areas of demographics and activism, work, education, health, poverty, the law, and violence against women. Since 2007, the Institute has published Women’s Leadership Fact Sheets as part of the project, and will continue to publish occasional reports. By bringing together available data, analyzing demographic trends, and identifying research gaps, we hope that NJ WomenCount will serve as a valuable tool to inform equitable policies and effective programs and increase public awareness of women’s leadership progress and challenges. 

National Dialogue on Educating Women for Leadership. The National Dialogue on Educating Women for Leadership was launched in 2000; the series is our effort to encourage a national, ongoing conversation about the development, meaning, and social impact of women’s leadership.    

Past Projects:  

Re-Imagining Work and Community: Work, Family, and Community in the Lives of New Jersey Professional Women, 2001-2005.  This collaborative research project between the Institute for Women’s Leadership and the Center for Women and Work, which was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, investigated the ways that professional women in dual-earner households define and interact with their multiple communities.

Women in the Public Sphere. With the Institute for Research on Women, IWL held a conference on Power, Practice, and Agency in May of 1998 targeted at audiences inside and beyond the university.

Talking Leadership. This project includes conversations with powerful women about how and why women lead, what barriers women face to obtaining leadership positions, and how these obstacles were addressed. Interviewees included Mildred Dresselhaus, bell hooks, Patricia Schroeder, and many more.

Hartman, Mary S. (ed.). Theorizing the Practice (forthcoming).

Trigg, Mary K. (ed.). 2010. Leading the Way: Young Women's Activism for Social Change. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.  

Brown-Glaude, Winnifred R (ed.). 2008. Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 

Hartman, Mary S. (ed.). 1999. Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

IWL Newsletter. The Institute for Women’s Leadership publishes periodic newsletters to share events and progress from the Institute and consortium members.

Visiting Scholars Program. Programs sponsored by the Institute and Consortium Members for guest scholars, researchers, and others to visit Rutgers.

Mary S. Hartman Women's Leadership Opportunity Fund at the Institute for Women's Leadership. The purpose of this Fund is to provide Rutgers undergraduate students with opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom through academic conferences, internships, research experiences, national summit meetings, leadership training, and skills workshops. 

Fellows at IRW

Visiting Scholars:

Since the IRW interdisciplinary research seminar began in the 1996-1997 academic year, the IRW has hosted more than 45 visiting scholars and Rockefeller Resident Fellows in the Humanities. Take a moment to discover who's been at the IRW and find out about their subsequent publications, as well as their IRW projects during their terms at Rutgers. We welcome updates to this growing database.

Rutgers Faculty Fellows:

Annual Student Research Conference on Gender. The conference includes presentations by both undergraduate and graduate students and is multidisciplinary, focusing on issues and knowledge related to gender. Submissions are invited from students in all academic fields, and may include a wide variety of formats: papers, posters, performances, exhibits, symposia, and roundtables. The aims of the conference are to showcase the excellent research students are doing, to provide students with the opportunity to receive feedback on their work, and for students, faculty, and community members to share information on current research on gender.

Current Research:

• Gender, Parental & Job-status Influences in Applicant Evaluations (a survey of employment issues as seen/evaluated by university students).
  

• Job Perceptions, Company Communications & Employee Evaluations (how perceptions and company communication affects evaluations in work settings).
  

• Role Model & Current Self impacts on Possible Self-views (an extended self-schema survey of influences on university students' self-views).

Feminist Thought and Scholarship:

A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity (Second Edition),Hilary Lips (2002).

"Issues of Power and Risk at the Heart of the Teaching/Research Nexus," Psychology of Women Quarterly, 23, Hilary Lips (1999).

"College Students' Visions of Power and Possibility as Mediated by Gender," Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24, Hilary Lips (2000).

Center for Gender Studies Annual Report (1995-2008)*:

Available Online>>

* Only Reports from 1995 to 2002 are available for viewing online.

Grants/Scholarships

The Schlesinger Library. A repository of 80,000 volumes and 13,000 linear feet of manuscripts, Schlesinger is the preeminent library documenting the history of women in America. Its holdings include letters, diaries, and personal papers of women and families. The library also houses records of women's organizations, books about women, culinary history, women's periodicals, photographs, videotapes, and oral histories. Prominent collections include the papers of Amelia Earhart, Betty Friedan, and others. The library also administers research grants and sponsors exhibitions and other public programs.

Henry A. Murray Research Center. A singularly valuable archive of longitudinal social science data, the Center serves as a resource for research on the changing lives of American women. The Center's primary purpose is to promote the use of existing social science data to further explore human development and change. A national archive of more than 270 studies is available to researchers from all levels and disciplines, free of charge. The center also sponsors conferences and workshops on methodological and substantive issues.

Academic Engagement Programs. As part of its mission to create an academic community where individuals can pursue advanced work, Radcliffe sponsors a range of programs that engage Harvard faculty and students in new scholarly and research endeavors. Academic Engagement Programs also serves the public by hosting lectures, conferences, and symposia that aim to increase understanding about cutting-edge research.

A Sampling of Innocent Documents. 1999. A collection of essays by Schlesinger Library staff honoring Eva S. Mosley, curator of manuscripts.

"Gender Equality, the Welfare State, and Family Decline in Modern Society." By Annemette Sorenson, Director of the Murray Research Center. In Comparative Social Research.

Annual Report

Radcliffe Magazine  

NewsMakers

Schlesinger Library Newsletter 

The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. Radcliffe Institute Fellowships are meant to support scholars of exceptional promise demonstrated by past academic and professional accomplishment. The Fellowship Program brings scholars from all over the world, nurturing individual study and fostering intellectual connections among them. Fellows are provided with private working space and university resources, along with the opportunity to learn and interact with fellow women scholars, writers, artists, and activists. Fellows present their works-in-progress at weekly public colloquia and continue their exchange at weekly lunches and gatherings.

Employment Opportunities:

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As part of the Five College Digital Humanities Project and our annual Research Associate focus "New Media and Feminist Scholarship, Teaching and Activisim" the FCWSRC is pleased to announce our five learning communities and their course development projects, 2012-2013.  

Archives

Mapping Women's Achives Project Directory. Begun in 2001 with initial funding provided by Professor Emerita Irene Tinker, this directory represents an ongoing effort to identify archival repositories in the United States with significant collections relating to women. Its purpose is to aid potential donors in more easily identifying archival repositories to which their papers could be donated. An equally important benefit is to aid researchers in locating primary source materials of relevance to women's studies. The database is searchable by organization name, city, state, or keyword. A form is available for electronic submission of new or updated repository information. The Directory is available on the Women and Leadership Archives website: http://www.luc.edu/orgs/gannon/archives/

Summer Research Grants to support and encourage research on women and their contributions to society. Up to three research grants are awarded to Loyola University Chicago graduate students each summer for research utilizing the holdings of the Women and Leadership Archives.

Business -- Business Leadership and Leadership Development

Annual Women in Business Conference. The topic for the annual conference to be held on October 4, 2002, is "Connecting and Connections: What Has Changed for Women in Business Today?" (See Women in Business Conference archives at www.luc.edu/orgs/gannon)

Leadership and Leadership Development -- International Development

Women and Leadership Archives. The WLA collects, preserves, organizes, describes, and makes available materials that advance original research on women and their roles and contributions to society, with a particular emphasis on women as leaders. Among the collected materials are records and papers in the areas of educational, civic, religious, and business life, primarily in Chicago and the Midwest.

Institute of Women and Leadership. With a mixture of practical and visionary opportunities, the institute initiates creative programming that supports, strengthens, and enhances women's leadership. From developing leadership skills to interacting with acknowledged leaders, offerings are structured for university students, faculty, and staff, as well as outreach to off-campus women. The Institute also provides for two Gannon Faculty Fellows each Spring Semester.

Gannon Scholars Leadership Program. The Gannon Scholars Leadership Program is a four-year women's leadership program administered by the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership.

Visiting Scholar Program. The Visiting Scholar Program brings researchers from around the world to Loyola for periods ranging from one month to a year to study issues of concern to women. The primary purpose of the program is to provide research support for scholars conducting research on women's issues.

Science and Technology

The Women in Science Enabling Research (WISER) program offers freshman and sophomore women an introduction to laboratory research and creates an environment for them to communicate with fellow women scientists, as well as to learn about and be encouraged toward scientific careers.

Women's Studies

Women's Studies Program. The Women's Studies Program offers a wide range of degree options: an undergraduate minor, an undergraduate major, a Graduate School certificate or concentration, and an M.A. Degree. (See www.luc.edu/depts/women-stu)

Annual Women's Conference. This event, to be held March 22 in the year 2003, is organized around Life and Arts: Women's Experience. The conference will continue to establish the practice of presenting a stimulating topic of interest to women that encourages the process of raising consciousness, educating, and working for social change.

Institute of Women and Leadership

Communications

Women in the Information Age. This research agenda is a collaboration of WAPPP and the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, which looks at how, compared to the Industrial Revolution, women currently occupy stronger and more visible positions in shaping the large-scale social, political, and industry changes that accompany the transition to the Information Age. Yet much needs to be done to bring women and girls into the cyber era on an equal footing with men and boys. This project will craft public and corporate policy agendas across the spectrum of issues that affect women in relation to information technology. In the year 2000-2001, experts in the field will come to the Kennedy School to participate in a lecture series and conference. The project will produce an edited volume analyzing women's experience with technology in the information age: their access to it, their use of it, and the power it can provide.

Recently, project director Jane Fountain was appointed to the Research Advisory Board of the Internet Policy Institute (IPI), based in Washington, DC. Chaired by former Netscape Communications CEO Jim Barksdale and GA Tech President Wayne Clough, IPI is considered the nation's first major independent, nonprofit research and educational body designed to study and interpret the Internet.

Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity

Race, Gender, and the Making of Public Policy Professionals. WAPPP-affiliated faculty member Carol Chetkovich heads this study of race, gender, and the making of public policy professionals, interviewing students at both the Kennedy School of Government and Berkeley.

Women of Color Podium. This ongoing initiative reaches across barriers of gender, class and ethnicity to bring diverse women to the Kennedy School, highlighting their work, adding their voices to the policy discussions carried on throughout the Harvard community, and providing role models to minority women students. Visiting women participate in public forums and other events, guest lecture in classrooms, contribute material for case studies highlighting achievements of women of color, and act as mentors. A recent addition to the initiative is the Women of Color Database, a resource for organizations to contact prominent women of color from varied fields of interest and occupation.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

The Harvard Unviersity Guide to Faculty Research in Gender and Public Policy. A WAPPP survey of the research being done throughout Harvard University, resulting in a resource that connects researchers, students and other scholars. The Guide to Faculty Research can be found on the website.

The Harvard University Guide to Gender-Related Courses. A comprehensive reference guide to all gender-related courses being offered at Harvard University designed to simplify the locating of gender-related courses and to make the process of studying gender easier for students. The Guide to Gender-Related Courses can be found on the WAPPP website.

The WAPPP Working Papers Series. The series provides a public forum for the distribution and publication of faculty and student research related to women and public policy and is available on the website.

Global Feminism
Peace and Conflict Resolution

Women Waging Peace. Launched in December 1999, this multi-year, global venture connects women addressing conflicts worldwide. The initiative breaks new ground by recognizing the essential role and contribution of women in preventing violent conflict, stopping war, reconstructing ravaged societies, and sustaining peace in fragile areas around the world. It has helped to bridge divides between communities in conflict, as well as among policy shapers, academics, and grassroots activists. During the public policy roundtable event on December 16, 1999, 100 delegates from conflict areas Armenia/Azerbaijan, Boston urban neighborhoods, Colombia, Cyprus, India/Pakistan, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland, the post-Yugoslav region, South Africa, and Sudan forged ties among themselves and with some 200 policy shapers-UN and World Bank officials, State Department officers, funders and journalists.

The second phase of the Women Waging Peace Initiative will add four new conflict areas: Sri Lanka, Russia, Rwanda, and Mexico. Delegates from all 14 areas, including ten delegates from each new area, will convene at the Kennedy School of Government in November 2000 for the second annual Women Waging Peace Conference. Delegates will continue their efforts to unite women and to support peace-making campaigns.

In June 2000 during the Beijing + 5 proceedings, female delegates from several conflict areas participated in a round table discussion on women's involvement in policymaking and conflict resolution. This discussion, entitled: "New Alliances: International Security and Women Waging Peace" at New York's 92nd Street YMCA, featured Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordon, General Wesley Clark, and Leon Fuerth, as well as eight representatives from conflict areas, in a discussion of women as peacemakers, women in conflict, and women at the policy table. The program was also mentioned in the foreign ministers' joint communiqué at the G-8 summit.

GRICAR: Gender Research in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. This project works at several tiers and across disciplines, linking gender research, professional practice in mediation and negotiation, and theories of conflict prevention, management and resolution. WAPPP cosponsors with the Kennedy School's Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) a six-week course on "Women and Grassroots: New Models for Social Cohesion in Divided Societies." Taught by Ambassador Swanee Hunt, students analyze women's experiences in international conflicts in terms of how they contribute to alternative approaches in political negotiation and conflict resolution, complement traditional government-led initiatives, and differ from men's approaches.

Leadership and Leadership Development

Women in International Development (WID). This program area provides an important venue for the exchange of research and experience relating to women and international development. It promotes the role of women leaders in global development and sponsors scholarly research to inform both policy discussion and current academic thought. This program area has three main areas of focus: the WID Student Group, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), and Banking on Russian Women. The WID Student Group fosters the study of the specific impact of economic and social development upon the work and livelihood of women. WIEGO is a worldwide coalition of institutions and individuals concerned with improving statistics, research programs, and policies in support of women in the informal sector of the economy. Banking on Russian Women, spearheaded by Russian economist Irina Ignatieva, is researching and designing an institution that will provide small loans to Russian women to start and expand their own businesses without demanding collateral.

Politics

Women Transforming Policy: Gender and International Relations. Does increasing the role of women in the foreign policy process affect public policy outcomes? How do men's and women's global political roles compare? What are the challenges and opportunities faced by women working in U.S. foreign policy? The goal of this program is to encourage a deeper joining of scholars and practitioners for the future in US foreign policy. A conference held in May 2000 focused on identifying successful models for bridging "thinkers and doers," analyzing action that extends beyond critique. The conference format was built around three major themes: war and peace, human rights and economic policy. In addition, WAPPP will continue to host select special individuals and groups, such as the 30 Foreign Service nationals (local employees at U.S. embassies worldwide) at the Kennedy School in a joint program with the United States Information Agency (USIA) in the fall of 2000.

Religion and Spirituality

Women, Religion, and Public Policy. This program area engages students, scholars, and activists in an examination of the intersection between women, religious institutions and traditions, and critical contemporary public policies. Critical engagement with these issues stems from the fact that many activists and policy makers on both the left and right describe their work as rooted in religious beliefs or experiences. The program operates under a broad definition of "public policy," reaching beyond actions of the state to include activities as diverse as charitable work, election-related educational campaigns, lobbying, press and electronic media activities, and other means of shaping civic values that underlie government policy decisions.

Women and Public Policy Program Working Paper Series
Series A

Differential Mortality and the Value of Individual Account Retirement Annuities, Jeffrey R. Brown (2000).

Peace with Justice, Peace with Care Palestinian and Israeli Women Negotiate Peacemaking Models, Dafna Vard Hochman, (2000).

Partisanship and the Impact of Candidate Gender in Congressional Elections: Results of an Experiment, David C. King (1999).

"Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent 'Yes,'" Jane Mansbridge (1999).

"'You're Too Independent!': Gender, Race and Class in the Production of Plural Feminisms," Jane Mansbridge (1998).

Breaking the Barriers: Positive Discrimination Policies for Women, Pippa Norris (2000).

The Gender Gap: Old Challenges, New Approaches,Pippa Norris (2000).

Gender and Contemporary British Politics, Pippa Norris (2000).

The Dynamics of the Framing Process: From Reagan's Gender Gap to Clinton's Soccer Moms, Pippa Norris (1997).

The Speeching of Sexual Harassment, Frederick Schauer (2000).

Women and Public Policy Program Working Paper Series
Series AA

Peace with Justice, Peace with Care: Palestinian and Israeli Women Negotiate Peacemaking Models, Dafna Vard Hochman (2000).

'Let's Not Change the Subject!' Deliberations on Abortion: on the Web, in the House, and in Abortion Dialogue Groups, Lamelle Rawlins (1999).

Gender and Conflict Resolution and Negotiation: What the Literature Tells Us, Bianca Cody Murphy and Ira Parghi (1999).

Papers About Women at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
Series AA

Women and Leadership at the Kennedy School: A Survey, Tara Sharafudeen, Mason Fellow (2000).

Papers Related to Women and Internet Speech

By Jean Camp: Women, Children, Animals and the Like: Protecting an Unwilling Electronic Populace, Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, March 28-31, 1995; Burlingame, CA; pp. 120-139. Co-authored by Donna Riley.

By Jean Camp: Bedrooms, Barrooms & Boardrooms on the Internet. Also co-authored by Donna Riley (1996).

Research Papers:

Greig, Fiona, and Iris Bohnet. 2009."Exploring gendered behavior in the field with experiments: Why public goods are provided by women in a Nairobi slum."

Research Fellowhip Program:

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Gender in Televised Sports: News and Highlights Shows, 1989 - 2009

Girls' and women's participation rates in organized sports have soared in recent decades, but according to the CFR Gender in Televised Sportsreport, media coverage of women's sports continues to lag.  Every five years since 1989, USC professor of sociology and gender studies Michael Messner and his colleagues examine the quality and quantify of coverage of men's and women's sports on three network affiliate news shows, and on ESPN's SportsCenter.  The 2010 study revealed that sports news and highlights shows continue largely to ignore or trivialize women's sports, as well as many men's sports, in effect supporting a continued cultural valuation of the central men's sports of basketball, football, and baseball.

2012-13 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar
Center for Feminist Research

The Center For Feminist Research is pleased to announce that the 2012-13 New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar, directed by Professor Karen Tongson, will focus on "Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of Popular Music."  In addition to Tongson, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, next year's seminar will include the following group of faculty and graduate students:

1. Edwin Hill, Assistant Professor of French, Italian, Comparative Literature and American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). His project "La Rage: Losing it in the French Peripheries," explores anti-colonial discourses of rage in French hip-hop culture and literature, in order to offer a timely intervention into debates about the 2005 and 2007 riots in the French banlieus, or urban peripheries, and France's "ultra-peripheries"--its colonial territories in the West Indies.

2. Kara Keeling, Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), and African American Studies in American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). Her project, "'Electric Feel': Transduction, Errantry and the Refrain" ascertains what logics inherited from particular popular musics might offer ongoing efforts to renegotiate bonds, institutions and political possibilities shaped by the violences characteristic of capitalism, white supremacy, neoliberal multiculturalism and contemporary geopolitics.

3. Josh Kun, Associate Professor of Communication (Annenberg) and American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). His project, titled "The World Begins Here: Love and Death and Music in Tijuana" tracks the transnational flows of culture from Tijuana's founding as a family-owned cattle ranch in the aftermath of the 19th century creation of a US-Mexico border, to its current state as a chaotic urban sprawl of well over two million people. In these histories, Kun hears what he calls the 'aural border': a bi-national territory of sonic performance and listening; of melodic convergence and dissonant clashing. 

4. Shana Redmond, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity (Dornsife). Her project, "Timing is Everything: The Feminine Antiphonies in 'We are the World'" revisits this anthem of global "relief"--particularly its redeployment in the wake of the 2010 earthquake disaster in Haiti--in order to expose the feminized musical tropes that organize conditions of aid and aid occupation, which developed in post-disaster sites like Ethiopia in 1985, and Haiti in 2010. 

5. Mina Yang, Assistant Professor of Music (Thornton). Her project, "Dancing into Visibility: Asian-American B-Boys and the Hip-Hop Trans-Nation," situates her extensive research on b-boying in Asia and Asian America within the context of racial discourses in the United States and hip-hop history, and against the backdrop of emergent transpacific economies and cultural geographies.

6. Micha Cardenas, Ph.D. student in Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (SCA); artist and theorist. Her project, titled "Femme Disturbance," combines scholarship, poetry and performance components to explore how musicality and figures like Janelle Monae and Ke$ha (among others) help foster antirationalist theories of genderqueer solidarity, politics and action. 

The CFR's "New Directions in Feminist Research" is organized annually around a particular theme.  The seminar offers participants an opportunity to work collectively on thematically linked projects, and also creates public events--invited speakers, panels, conferences--that engage the broader feminist community of faculty and students at USC.  Stay tuned for announcements for such events in 2012-13.

The Center for Feminist Research Newsletter

Our Spring 2012 newsletter is now available online! Please follow the link below and click on Spring 2012. Past issues available here as well.

Issues Available Online>>

Graduate Fellowships:

• a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified
• a curriculum vita, which should reflect your circumstances as a woman student who has returned to academia
• a three-page, 750-word description of your dissertation/creative project, and/or a sample of your creative work (e.g. a script or film)
• two letters of recommendation
• an unofficial transcript