Awareness & Education

Corporations and Women
Leadership and Leadership Development

Helping Corporate Women to Achieve their Leadership Goals. There will be two initiatives for this project: 1) The Senior Leadership Program for Professional Women, an annual eight-month program for women preparing to move to upper levels of leadership within their organizations and 2) Corporate Leadership Forums which will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss critical issues facing corporate women.

Research Project on "Minority Women in the Executive Suite: A Research Initiative for Minority Women's Leadership." The project, under the direction of Professor dt ogilvie, faculty fellow, will examine successful multicultural women who have attained senior corporate leadership positions to increase understanding of successful leadership strategies for multicultural women.

WINGS (Women Investing in and Guiding Students) LINK is a college to career program for undergraduate female students to learn about the mentoring process before they enter the workforce.

Corporations and Women
Unions

Annual Series of All-Day Public Programs for Union Women. This annual series focuses on workplace violence, stress in the workplace, and sexual harassment in the workplace, among other topics.

Education & Employment (Career Development)

Rutgers Databank on Working Women. This database provides centralized, information on the status of working women in New Jersey and the nation, and collects and posts individual and aggregate data as it becomes available. This data is available on the internet, and can be accessed at http://www.cww.rutgers.edu. Additional data on professional women in the state and the nation is being collected and will be posted when completed.

The Sloan Center on Innovative Training and Workforce Development (ITWD), housed at Rutgers University, is dedicated to assisting State, County, and City Government Departments and Workforce Investment Boards institutionalize technologically-based flexible education and training alternatives, especially online learning opportunities,  for non-college educated workers throughout the nation.

The Education and Career Development components of CWW focus on the foundations that lead to gender equity in a high-skill economy, including the development and implementation of policy in our education and workforce systems.

Legal Talent at the Crossroads: Why New Jersey Women Lawyers Leave Their Law Firms, and Why They Choose to Stay, 2009 report >> read full Adobe PDF

New Jersey's Women in Science and Technology 2008 Summit Report >> read full report Adobe PDF 

New Jersey Women Count (1994), a compilation of social indicators regarding the status of women in New Jersey.

Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership, ed. Professor Sue Cobble (1993).

"The Role of Family Status in Explaining Race Differences in Access to Hierarchical Authority Structures among Women," CWW Working Paper, Ryan A. Smith and dt ogilvie (1990-1991).

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

Child Care

The Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy. The Center has formed a partnership with the Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy to foster better collaboration between the organizations when addressing the needs of low-income fathers and mothers on child support and related family law issues.

The Child Care and Development Block Grant ( CCDBG) and Dependent Care Tax Credit (DCTC). The Center appeals for the expansion of both the CCDBG and the DCTC which would better assist low-income families with their child care needs. The current Senate CCDBG and DCTC proposals offer relief for some low-income families, not affecting those between 133% and 202% of the poverty line. The Center's expansion proposal would support these poverty stricken families.

Economic Development

Women and Bankruptcy. The Center is currently fighting the S. 625 bill which if passed, would intensify the adversity facing women who file for bankruptcy, making the filing process more complex than ever before. Over 500,000 women were expected to file for bankruptcy in 1999, making bankruptcy a central issue challenging many of today's contemporary women.

Law and Legal Issues

Title IX. The Center is working to uncover and reconcile the injustices that accompany the Title IX compliance. Title IX prohibits sex discrimination on every level. Most often, Title IX is exercised within academic walls, requiring an equal distribution of women and men's organizations. On the collegiate front, Title IX has been used to more fully develop female athletic programs. Still, there is room for improvement. Most women's athletic teams are experiencing a unevenly distributed finances, receiving one dollar for every three dollars spent on their male counterparts.

Reproductive Rights

Women's Health Report Card. The Center has extended a new partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Medical School's program on women's health to develop a Women's Health Report Card. The Report Card documents the happenings in public policy addressing local and national women's health issues, keeping the public informed of public policy.

Social Security

Women and Social Security Reform. The Center is working to strengthen the current social security system, which was implemented to specifically benefit the elderly. Since statistically, women usually live longer than men, social security seems to benefit more women than men. That the system remains strong, is an important issues for the women's movement.

Click here to learn more about the Center's Program Areas. 

Child Care

Be All That We Can Be: Lessons from the Military for Improving our Nation's Child Care System. This report tells the story of the military's success in transforming its child care system into a model for the nation and offers valuable lessons for policy makers and others on how similar improvements can be made in civilian child care. To view or download a copy of this report, visit the Child Care section of this site.

Making Care Less Taxing: Improving State Child and Dependent Care Tax Provisions. Geared toward state policymakers and advocates, this report analyzes and provides recommendations on ways to improve state tax assistance for child and dependent care.

Making Ends Meet: A Woman's Guide to Collecting Child Support. This is a convenient brochure that provides women with an overview of their child support rights and information on how to exercise those rights through state child support offices. To view or download a copy of this brochure, visit the Child and Family Support section of this site.

Como Hacer Alcanzar El Dinero: Guia de la Mujer el Cobro de P

ensiones de Manutencion Infantil. This is a convenient Spanish-language brochure that provides women with an overview of their child support rights and information on how to exercise those rights through state child support offices. To view or download a copy of this brochure, visit the Child and Family Support section of this site.

Health Care

Hospital Mergers and the Threat to Women's Reproductive Health Services: Using Antitrust Laws to Fight Back. A first-of-its-kind resource guide, this publication is designed to provide health care advocates and others seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's antitrust laws to challenge proposed hospital mergers that threaten to reduce or eliminate these services.

Law/Legal Issues

Career Education

Putting the Law on Your Side: A Guide for Women and Girls to Equal Opportunity in Career Education and Job Training. For girls in middle or high school, or women in post-secondary or job training programs, this publication explains the laws that apply to career education and offers advice about how to deal with sex discrimination in such programs.

Sports and Fitness

Breaking Down Barriers: A Legal Guide to Title IX. This detailed guide includes comprehensive analyses of Title IX's legislative history and regulatory framework as it relates to athletics, as well as settlement agreements and other legal issues.

Sexual Harassment

Righting the Wrongs: A Legal Guide to Understanding, Addressing, and Preventing Sexual Harassment in Schools. Directed at attorneys and advocates, this manual focuses on sexual harassment of students and the legal obligations placed on schools to address it.

Do the Right Thing: Understanding, Addressing, and Preventing Sexual Harassment in Schools. Designed for teachers, parents, and other non-lawyer types, this manual focuses on sexual harassment of students and the legal obligations placed on schools to address it.

Annual Reports

National Women's Law Center Annual Report 2007-2008 

National Women's Law Center Newsletter

Fellowships

The National Women’s Law Center is seeking a college graduate with excellent quantitative,  research, and communications skills and relevant experience for a one-year paid public policy fellowship starting September 2010 in its Family Economic Security and Education and Employment programs.

Pro Bono Opportunities 

The Center will consider applications from lawyers who are available for a sustained period of time, whether through a law firm program or a fellowship program sponsored by an organization such as Equal Justice Works or Georgetown’s Women’s Law and Public Policy, or who are otherwise interested in supporting the Center’s work on a volunteer basis.

Pro Bono Opportunities and Fellowships Education and Employment Program

The Education and Employment program of the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) is looking for a lawyer who is available for at least six months, whether through a law firm program or a fellowship program sponsored by an organization such as Equal Justice Works or Georgetown’s Women’s Law and Public Policy, or who is otherwise interested in supporting the Center’s work on a volunteer basis.

Internships:

Communications Intern

The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) seeks an energetic, detail-oriented intern with an interest in media and public policy to provide support to NWLC’s Communications department. The intern would work with Communications staff on media monitoring and analysis, maintaining press lists and expanding social networking.

Online Outreach Intern

The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) seeks an energetic, detail-oriented intern to provide support to NWLC’s Outreach team. The intern’s responsibilities would focus on social networking and blog outreach.

Outreach Intern

The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) seeks an energetic, detail-oriented intern to provide support to NWLC’s Outreach team.

The Ms. Foundation for Women is dedicated to building women's collective power to ignite change. We seek opportunities to both proactively and reactively inform public policy, and obtain policy wins at the local, state, tribal and national level, with the ultimate goal of transforming the systems that govern women's lives.

We also aim to change the language, beliefs and behaviors that continue to hold women's oppression in place-particularly at the intersection of race, class and gender-and to shift public debate on key issues so that the perspectives of, and impact on, low income women and women of color are visible and addressed.

We support both cross-issue organizing and organizing within four broad areas of impact:

Women's Health

Reproductive Justice organizing and advocacy
Sexuality education organizing and advocacy
Women and HIV/AIDS policy advocacy and organizational capacity building
Access to health care coverage

Ending Violence

Community-based strategies to prevent child sexual abuse and violence against women and LGBTQ people
Strategies to engage men and boys in ending violence
Public education and media literacy
Youth-driven strategies

Economic Security

Organizing for better wages and working conditions, especially in female dominated sectors
Paid leave (including paid sick days and paid family leave)
Affordable, accessible quality child care
Access to health care coverage

Building Democracy

Building the infrastructure of organizations working for a progressive vision of democracy
Amplifying the voices of women of color, with a special emphasis on the Gulf South
Voter/civic engagement
Just immigration and refugee policies
Criminal Justice reform
Media Justice

Examples of funding initiatives across these broad and interconnected issue areas include:

Katrina Women's Response Fund: The Ms. Foundation responded immediately to the destruction and massive displacement caused by Hurricane Katrina by creating the Katrina Women's Response Fund. The Fund provides strategic support to meet the immediate needs of women of color and low-income women in the Gulf Coast region and ensure that their leadership and priorities are central in both short and long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts. By making grants to organizations throughout the region, the Katrina Women's Response Fund invests in the crucial infrastructure that promotes the health, safety, and economic well-being of women, their families and communities.

The Women and AIDS Fund: The Ms. Foundation for Women created the Women and AIDS Fund (WAF)to support organizations that advocate for policies and services that meet the needs of women with HIV/AIDS. WAF remains the only national fund that supports advocacy and self-determination by and for women living with this disease. By providing grants, technical assistance and networking opportunities to community-based organizations led by and for women who are HIV-positive, we contribute to the development of model approaches for women's HIV/AIDS advocacy that can be shared across the country. Our work has also helped create a national network of HIV-positive infected and affected women, called the National Women and AIDS Collective (NWAC), who strive to influence the ways in which policies are determined at the federal level.

The Reproductive Rights Coalition and Organizing Fund: The Ms. Foundation for Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition and Organizing Fund (RRCOF) has been a strong, responsive resource for state reproductive rights organizations across the United States since 1989. RRCOF provides grantmaking, technical assistance, and networking activities to strengthen state-level infrastructures and build critical, broad-based support for reproductive rights. RRCOF aims to increase the capacity of state and local reproductive rights organizations so that they can: 1) expand and mobilize their base of support; 2) reach a broader and more diverse audience; 3) frame reproductive rights and health in a broader health and social justice context; and 4) more effectively advocate for positive - and avert restrictive - reproductive health policies and programs.

Join our movement for social justice and help to bring the experience and solutions of women and girls to the challenging issues that impact women and their communities most. Learn more about how you can show your support. 

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Stir It UP: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy. Written by activist and trainer Rinku Sen, this publication examines the work of economic justice organizations funded by the Ms. Foundation and applies the lessons they learned to other community organizations. Sen also provides models and tools that any organization can use to successfully create social change and influence public policy.

Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work for All of Us . Most Americans believe a job should keep you out of poverty, not keep you in it. Raise The Floor shows us how we can translate that belief into reality by raising the minimum wage. In addition to telling workers' stories, presenting original data, and proposing comprehensive policies, Raise The Floor spotlights businesses large and small that demonstrate how good wages are good business-in good economic times and bad.

Kitchen Table Entrepreneurs: How Eleven Women Escaped Poverty and Became Their Own Bosses. This publication tells the inspirational stories of eleven low-income women who have marshaled the creative energy, confidence, and capital necessary to start their own small businesses. These women, who have used their entrepreneurial skills as a route out of poverty, give an American face to an economic empowerment tool that has enjoyed great success in developing countries.

Ms. Foundation. 2009. Creating Connections, Igniting Change: Annual Report 2007-2008.

Ms. Foundation. 2009. Building Momentum to Sustain Social Change: Evaluation of the Katrina Women's Response Fund.  

Grants

Childhood Obesity / Healthy Eating
Junior Leagues' Kids in the Kitchen: An international project for participating Leagues to raise awareness about childhood obesity and the diseases that arise from it. The program focuses on educating both children and their parents at the grassroots level. We have established a special website for this initiative www.kidsinthekitchen.ajli.org.

Community Service
Local programs: AJLI's member Leagues have developed a wide variety of local programs that serve the specific needs of their communities. These programs address the many areas of expertise listed above.

Join a Junior League:

Junior League women make things happen -- they form strategic partnerships, create innovative programs and raise funds for exciting community initiatives. So what sets Junior League volunteers apart from the rest? They are not only women who want to improve communities, they are women with the training and skills to make it happen!

The Girl Scouts have a program with age appropriate and progressive resources based on four program goals for girls. Every girl who particpates in Girl Scouting benefits from the following four program goals:

Developing to her full potential.

Relating to others with increasing understanding, skill and respect.

Developing values to guide her actions and to provide the foundation for sound decision-making.

Contributing to the improvement of society through the use of her abilities and leadership skills, working in cooperation with others.

Below is a sampling of the kinds of newer initiatives that are adjuncts to the core program:

Community Service

All Girl Scouts are encouraged to perform community service projects. Once girls reach the age of nine, and through the age of 17, they can take on projects of increasing complexity and can receive nationally-recognized awards for their achievements.

Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity

Thinking Day. Held annually on February 22, the Girl Scouts celebrates girls and the diverse cultures in which they live by learning more about sister Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from neighboring countries. Girls at every Girl Scout age level engage in many activities that foster respect for others and respect for themselves.

Environment

The Elliot Wildlife Values project is the environmental education unit of the organization. Under its umbrella, a variety of projects take place. Some examples are:

Linking Girls to the Land. In cooperation with various environmental agencies, Girl Scout Councils plan outdoor recreational activities and environmental education programs, including service projects in natural areas for local Girl Scouts groups.

EarthPACT (plant and animal conservation team) supports partnerships between Girl Scout councils and local environmental education, nature, or science-related institutions to involve girls in field conservation activities and provide career exporation activities.

From Sidewalks to Treetops- Neighborhood Environmental Exploration workshops in Spanish and English teach council staff and administrative volunteers how to use the streets of their own communities as outdoor learning centers for girls. The workshop is also available as a training video in English and Spanish for leaders.
As part of a collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, young adults are provided with ongoing ocean science and exploration experience, including working in the field with scientists, designing projects to continue at home, and an e-mentoring project between girls and NOAA ocean scientists.

Financial Literacy

A curriculum that promotes financial iteracy, an e-learning web site, and grants for locally-administered projects have been launched to teach girls the skills they need to become fiscally responsible.

Girls and Adolescents

The Girl Scout Research Institute (GSRI) is a center for research and public policy information on the healthy development of girls as they mature toward adulthood. The GSRI, through synthesis of original research and existing material, is building a body of knowledge on girls and key issues affecting them and encourages practical use of the information by policy makers, educators, youth-serving organizations, volunteers, parents, and girls. Girl Scouts has completed a national research study focused on girls ages 11-17 and, based on this research, has designed new ways for girls in this age range to participate in Girl Scout activities. With a new line of resources and new opportunities to connect with other girls and adults, this project gives girls the benefits of belonging to a larger youth organization while individualizing the program to suit specific needs and interests.

Health -- Sports and Fitness

GirlSports 2000. Initiated to encourage healthy living, GirlSports creates opportunities for girls to engage in various sporting events and to cooperate with others to develop leadership and healthy living habits. National participating organizations include the Ladies Professional Golf Association, American Youth Soccer Organization, Amateur Softball Association/USA Softball, US Swimming, United States Tennis Association, USA Volleyball, Women's National Basketball Association, Women's Sports Foundation, and the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport.

Literacy

Follow the Reader, a Girl Scout/White House Family Reading Project, is a series of activity books in Spanish and English that girls and families use together to explore the world of reading. Local community projects based on the activity books extend the scope of this initiative.

Mentoring

The Mentoring Girls Project, made possible by the Metropolitan Life Foundation, is specially designed to link adults with girls between 11 and 17 years of age.

Science and Technology

The Intel Fair Play Camp Initiative provides project mentoring, career exploration, and assistance with science fair projects to girls at sites across the country.

The Lockheed Martin Science Career Exploration Fund gives girls and young adults experiences in science, ranging from space journey simulations to paleontologist digs.

GirlFACTS (Girls, Families, and Communities Together in Science) encourages girls' interest in science by involving their families as well.

Violence Against Girls

Project Anti-Violence Education (PAVE the WAY). A major federally funded project for Girl Scouts to work with local communities on prevention and intervention to stem the tide of violence in children's lives on both a personal and community level. The project was started in Missouri, and extensive national development is planned to end the current trend of the violent victimization of youth.

The Girl Scout Research Institute produces original research studies, research reviews,and outcome measurement guides focused on issues for girls ages 5-17. For the latest information on these publications, see the GSRI (www.girlscouts.org/about/ResearchInstitute/GSRIMain.htm).

Other publications of interest include:

Girl Power! With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Girl Scouts offer constructive resource guides for 9-14 year olds and the adults who most influence them. These guides promote creative problem-solving techniques and practical communication strategies in order to influence positive and healthy decision-making (1998).

Just for Girls Web Pages (jfg.girlscouts.org). Receiving awards for excellence of content, these pages include the extremely popular "Ask Doctor M" column, in which girls can ask questions about their concerns and hear from both a developmental psychologist and her daughter. The web site also contains information on Girl Scouting, updated activities for girls, links to the Girl Scout Virtual Museum, badge work, and profiles of high-achieving contemporary career women.

Videos:

Valientes y Fuertes (Courageous and Strong). Produced in Spanish, the video is an effort to urge adults to support girl-adult interactive partnerships in Spanish-speaking communities (1998).

Grants/Scholarships

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:

Diana Meehan Fellowship in Feminism and Communications

The Center for Feminist Research will award two $2000 Fellowships to two advanced graduate students working in the general area of feminism and communication. Applicants should be advanced students who are working either on a dissertation or on an original creative project.

Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:

·       a cover letter explaining how your circumstances meet the criteria specified

·       a curriculum vita

·       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

Cagney and Lacey Fellowship

The Center for Feminist Research will award one $2000 fellowship to a returning woman student who is enrolled in a graduate program in the USC School of Cinema/Television. The student may be in any year of study except her final year. Please note, a returning student is one who has had a break of several years between her undergraduate training and matriculation in graduate school; she is usually of non-traditional school age.

Please check the CFR website for application deadlines. To apply, submit:

• 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

All queries and applications should be sent to: cfr@usc.edu

Global Issues

Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan. FMF is leading a public education campaign to stop gender apartheid in Afghanistan. To date, more than 150 women's rights and human rights organizations in the U.S. and around the world have agreed to co-sponsor the campaign to demand that the human rights abuses against women and girls in Afghanistan must end. The campaign is urging the United States and United Nations to continue to refuse to grant recognition to the Taliban and to do everything in their power to restore the human rights of Afghani women.

Health and Health Care
Reproductive Rights

National Clinic Access Project. The FMF National Clinic Access Project is the largest and oldest clinic defense program in the nation. The project performs grassroots organizing and engages in public education work to increase public awareness of anti-abortion extremist violence. The project also provides direct assistance in the form of legal, security, and support services as well as direct financial aid to abortion providers not affiliated with the National Abortion Federation (NAF) or Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and works in collaboration with NAF and PPFA to reduce violence. In addition, the clinic violence program conducts the most extensive research in tracking and documenting extremists' actions and violence as well as the most comprehensive annual social science survey of anti-abortion violence in the nation.

Choices Campus Leadership Program. The FMF Choices Campus Leadership Campaign is a new, innovative research and action program with extensive grassroots organizing on campus. The program is built on a study and action model using a 10-unit manual and defining choices in its broadest sense including the reproductive choices, leadership choices, career choices, and fighting the backlash. Currently, the program is on 83 campuses nationwide and is expanding rapidly. The Choices campaign also is conducted through Internet organizing via the Virtual Choices web site, www.feministcampus.org.

Women's Health. FMF provides information on how to get in touch with health hotlines and resources, including information and resources on reproductive health and options. The FMF Campaign for Mifepristone and Women's Health Research is the largest public education campaign for the use of anti-progestins. It is a sustained public education campaign directed at expanding research on the medication's many promising indications. The campaign has the sole responsibility of providing mifepristone to U.S. physicians for compassionate use treatment of several serious diseases under an agreement with the Population Council, which has U.S. distribution rights, its licensee, Danco Group, and the French pharmaceutical, which has world distribution rights.

Women and Policing

National Center for Women & Policing. A division of FMF, the National Center for Women & Policing is a national resource for women in policing, law enforcement agencies, community leaders, and public officials seeking to increase the number of women law enforcement officers and to improve law enforcement response to family violence. The National Center conducts research and provides technical assistance and training to law enforcement agencies on issues related to women in policing, family violence, and sexual assault, and promotes strategies for increasing women's representation in federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

Leadership and Leadership Development

Feminist Majority Foundation OnLine. FMF OnLine promotes social, political, and economic equality for women by featuring daily feminist news, feminist research resources, Take Action items, domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines, a feminist career center, information on women and girls in sports, and more.

Campus Projects. FMF started "Feminization of Power" campus campaigns and campus units to encourage and help women to obtain positions in student government. Other campus projects include campaigns for choice and projects supporting affirmative action.

Women in Leadership. FMF is a strong supporter of furthering women's power and leadership skills. It has followed national and international political events and elections, and advocates for women's continued leadership advancement. Additionally, FMF has staged and hosted many events centered around the feminization of power, feminist leadership, and equality.

Events:

Creativity Workshop in New York City

Date: 3/12/2010 Time: 10:00 AM Event Type: Conference

Place: Meta Center in the Chelsea district, 214 West 29th St.

Exquisite Journey : Fierce Beauty

Date: 3/12/2010 ~ 3/13/2010 Time: 7:30 pm Event Type: Concert

Place:  Faith Lutheran Church, Phoenix, AZ

Contact: Terry Gunn

Phone: (602) 487-1940

E-Mail: manager@azwit.com

URL: http://www.azwit.com

WO-MEN WITH A VISION: Building bridges Of Unity

Date: 3/26/2010 Time: 7.00PM Event Type: Concert

Place: The Guitar Merchant, Woodland Hills, CA

Contact: Leigh Swansborough

Phone: (818) 299-4527

E-Mail: powpeople@yahoo.com

International Family Justice Center Conference

Date: 4/27/2010 ~ 4/29/2010 Time: 8:00am-5:00pm Event Type: Conference

Place:  Crowne Plaza San Antonio Riverwalk , San Antonio, TX

Contact: Melissa Mack

Phone: (888) 511-3522

E-Mail: melissa@nfjca.org

URL: http://www.familyjusticecenter.org/conference/

Contact: Ceci Glusman

Phone: 1 (831) 915-5209

E-Mail: admin@creativityworkshops.com

URL: http://www.creativityworkshop.com/newyork.html

FMF. 2008. 2008 Clinic Violence Survey Report. Conducted by Feminist Majority Foundation, Eleanor Smeal, Katherine Spillar, and Margie Moore. 

http://www.feminist.org/research/cvsurveys/clinic_survey2008.pdf

FMF. 2007. Handbook For Achieving Gender Equity Through Education. Written by Feminist Majority Foundation.

http://www.feminist.org/education/handbook.asp

College and Community Fellowship (CCF)

CCF is an experimental program which addresses the transitional experiences of women leaving prison and returning to communities. It especially focuses on the educational needs of these women, many of whom had begun college in prison and wish to return to college upon release. A number of students in the Women's Studies Certificate Program are involved in CCF, acting as mentors to the women returning to college.

Community, Leadership and Education After Reentry (CLEAR) 

CLEAR supports a research group comprised of formerly incarcerated women and men, which focuses on publishing research on issues around reentry, policy and practice. CLEAR especially concerns itself with the barriers to successful reentry and reintegration, reinforced by the social stigma of imprisonment, including limited access to education, and civic participation, including voting rights. The group hopes to influence the development of public leadership by formerly incarcerated men and women to shape innovative policy and media responses, positive social and cultural representation of formerly incarcerated people, as well as new strategies, practices and policies for existing and future organizations serving the very large numbers of people in reentry.

Activist Women's Voices: Oral History Project

The Activist Women's Voices Oral History Project, funded by AT&T, the Ford Foundation, the Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication, and the New York Council for Humanities, is committed to documenting the voices of unheralded activist women in community-based organizations in New York City.

The Conviction Project

The Conviction Project aims at linking the social activism of CCF with academic studies and research goals and is an ongoing faculty and student seminar. Now in its third year, The Conviction Project Seminar will continue to focus on the history of the development of the prison-industrial complex, addressing both the impact of the privatization of prisons on those imprisoned and the intensification and extension of technologies of surveillance into everyday life. The seminar members will study the conditions and the experience of imprisonment of the body, mind, and spirit- both within and outside of prisons- especially in relationship to race, age, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality. This seminar will also be concerned with silencing and censorship, traumatized memory and bodily discrimination, abjection and abuse, and the role of education in relationship to these issues- inside and outside of prison. Given these general themes, in 2002 we are focusing especially on reconciliation and racial relationships both in global and local contexts.

With/Out Walls: Incarceration, Education, and Control

As an extension of The Conviction Project, CSWS sponsors a two-day conference that brings together professionals form social service, policy-making, government and non-government organizations as well as not-for-profit agencies. They, along with many ex-offenders, discuss education for persons in prison and outside of prison. Each year this conference allows us to disseminate to various publics what we have learned through the Conviction Project Seminar. We have also put up a web site for CCF that we are in the process of developing as a site for public distribution of data on education in, and after, prison.

Future Matters: Technoscience, Politics, and Cultural Criticism

A two-day symposium on technoscience to be held April 10-11, 2003, the symposium promises to be a provocative and productive event and thirty-five scholars are already committed to participate. In convening the symposium, it is our hope that institutes and centers concerned with the study of women, sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, nation, and class will lead the way in rethinking political strategies and cultural criticisms for now and in the future. We are convinced that in taking technoscience as one of our primary concerns, we will be able to reconfigure the aims of recent cultural criticisms in order that cultural criticism can address some of the pressing questions of these times and help inform the future of global political practice.

Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique

With the National Council for Research on Women, CSWS received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant for 2002-2004. Together we will bring scholars from different parts of the world to study changing relationships of global capital, nation states, civil society, the private and public spheres, and the way these changes have provoked a need to reexamine definitions of citizenship and human rights. One of the project's aims is a seminar for 2002-2004 that will be hosted by CSWS. The seminar begins in Fall 2002 and will address the sites of accountability for human security around the world, the problems and possibilities that extend across cultural, social, and political borders, in particular on the gendered dimensions of human security, and their intersections with race, class, religion, sexuality, generation, and nation.

New Immigrant Women: Identification and Inventory

New Immigrant Women is a project of the Activist Women's Oral History Project, founded in the 1990's, with archival interviews and ongoing oral histories interviewing women artists who work with young people in the NYC community. The new project, funded by a Rockefeller Foundation planning grant, is locating oral histories that document the mobilization and experience of Latina and Asian American women in three American cities as the foundation of a National Women's Oral History Consortium.

Women's Studies Development

Women's Studies Discipline Council. The council brings together leaders of Women's Studies programs and women's centers throughout the CUNY system several times a year for discussions on new and ongoing issues relevant to students, faculty, and programs for the purposes of mutual support and networking.

CSWS Newsletter - A semi-annual publication edited by students in the Women's Studies Certificate Program.

Women's Studies Quarterly  - In collaboration with the Feminist Press

Nina E. Fortin Memorial Fund Dissertation Proposal Award

The annual Nina E. Fortin Dissertation Proposal Award of $300 plus tuition will be given to a student in any Ph.D. Program at The Graduate School who submits an outstanding dissertation proposal that addresses an issue of concern in the lives of women from a feminist perspective.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize

The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize will be awarded to an outstanding feminist dissertation in the humanities completed at the CUNY Graduate Center in a given academic year. The prize is meant to recognize feminist scholarship consonant with the broad intellectual aims of Carolyn Heilbrun's work.
 

SUE ROSENBERG ZALK TRAVEL AWARD

Arts

Global Issues

International Women's Film Festival. Annual series of films made by and about women.

Community Service (and Activism)

Women's Action Coalition. The institute is a member of the Women's Action Coalition, a group of more than 150 women's organizations in Western New York. Consultation with and contributions to reports on women by the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women is provided. Currently, IREWG is part of the planning for a Women's Pan American Leadership Conference to be held in 2001, commemorating the 1901 Pan Am Exhibition held in Buffalo. The conference will focus on the political, economic, and health status of women in the Americas.

Curriculum Development

Gender and the Changing Curriculum: Educating With(out) the Difference(s). This interdisciplinary, day-long conference explored new ways that the curriculum could be changed to better include women and gender. The program included integrating gender and science, gender-inclusive syllabi, gender and technology, gender and the media, and roundtable discussions on the impact of gender on one's position as faculty, administrator, or student member of a university community.

Teaching about Women and Gender is a workshop on teaching gender where syllabi are presented.

Course Competition for Developing New Interdisciplinary Courses for Women, 1998-99. The competition awarded grants to cover development costs for new courses. Five new courses resulted: Women and Science, Biology of Women, Mathematics in Context, Labor Market Segmentation, Gender & Ethnicity, and Gender and Technology.

Scholar-in-Residence, March 22-26, 1999. This program reflects the strategy for introducing new, intellectually challenging voices on gender issues to the UB community for a sustained period. With presentations and seminars for students and faculty colleagues, the scholar's visit has an "intellectual multiplier effect." IREWG's first resident scholar/artist was Vera Frankel from Toronto. Her work combines multiple media - video, text, and computers - in stimulating presentations on identity and Diaspora. The week-long visit allowed for lectures, workshops, and "crits" for students in art and media studies.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Women at the End of the Twentieth Century. This lecture series featured women scholars addressing issues that women face as the century draws to a close. Topics included poor and working-class women, women who abuse drugs and alcohol, and more.

Annual Celebration of Scholarship on Women and Gender. Showcases multidisciplinary activities, research, course work, and community.

Faculty Lectures and Seminar Series.

Research Awards Competition.

Girls and Adolescents

Urban Girls 2000 Conference to be held April 14-16, 2000. This conference will stimulate new ways of thinking about girls and translate those thoughts into carefully developed action programs, with particular emphasis on local initiatives. Professor Lani Guiner will be the keynote speaker. Sponsored with the School of Graduate Education

Symposium on Female Adolescence, April 26, 1999. Sponsored by IREWG and the Department of History, this symposium addressed such topics as adolescence, sexuality, race, and compulsory sterilization in the South. It also offered historical perspectives on female adolescence.

Science and Technology

Building a University Community of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Conference planned for 2000, focusing on mentoring and retaining women in the STEM disciplines.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

IREWG Newsletter. Published twice a year.

IREWG Report on Activities, 1997-1999. Summary of the institute's first two years of operation.