Women's Leadership

Feminist Thought and Scholarship
Research Interest Groups. Research Interest Groups (RIG) organized by CSWS foster collaboration between scholars at the university. Faculty, graduate students, and community members participate in programs and events. RIGs are designed to facilitate collaborative research; create support groups for the preparation of grant proposals; build better connections between scholars and community activists; and generate opportunities for cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars.

Women of Color Project
CSWS was awarded a Ford Foundation grant in March 2008 from the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW). “Diversifying the Leadership of Women’s Research Centers,” was meant to promote the leadership of women of color from historically underrepresented groups in the United States within NCRW and within its women’s research, policy, and advocacy member centers. CSWS and the UO Office of the Vice President for Research provided matching funds.

Charise Cheney, associate professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies, continues as the 2012-13 coordinator of the CSWS Women of Color Project. Cheney’s research interests include African-American popular and political cultures, black nationalist ideologies and practices, and gender and sexuality. She is the author of Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism (New York: New York University Press, 2005) and is currently working on a book about black resistance to school desegregation in Topeka, Kansas in the decade before Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. She earned her PhD at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Fembot Project
Designed to re-imagine academic writing and research, the Fembot Project participates in the ongoing revolution in academic publishing, taking seriously the advice of scholars to democratize our publications by embracing open access, open source publications. The Fembot Project centrally includes a new journal—Ada: Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology—that will be broadly accessible, both in terms of physical access and in terms of its content. The Fembot website (http://fembotcollective.org/) comprises three overlapping projects: Ada, Laundry Day, and a professional clearinghouse.

For more information, contact Carol Stabile, Director, CSWS, cstabile@uoregon.edu

Women Writers Project

This group organized MemoirFest, the first annual CSWS Women Writers Symposium, held May 12, 2012. The second annual CSWS Women Writers Symposium: Common Ground, will be held over Mother’s Day weekend 2013. The Women Writers Project (http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=10220) seeks to foster and enhance opportunities for women writers on campus, in the community, and throughout the Pacific Northwest; to bring distinct voices of published women writers to campus; and to support the work of creative writing by bringing together writers from different disciplines.

For more information, contact coordinator Alice Evans at alicee@uoregon.edu

2012 CSWS Annual Review

Available online here, this 28-page publication includes these highlights:

• “The Rise and Fall of The Goldbergs,” by Carol Stabile, director, CSWS, and professor, SOJC and women’s and gender studies — Despite widespread support as evidenced through fan mail, this popular show by Jewish writer Gertrude Berg was ultimately squelched by anti-communist activists.
• “Witnessing in the Americas: A Conversation with Gabriela Martínez,” documentary filmmaker, SOJC associate professor, and the new associate director of CSWS.
• “We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements,” by Lynn Stephen,  professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies — CSWS-funded research culminates in innovative book.
• Research articles by UO scholars addressing the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields, rural gentrification and immigrant-centered labor, strategies of silence in American women’s poetry, and more.

CSWS Research Matters is published three times yearly. Each two-page article is written by a UO faculty member whose research has been supported by CSWS. Available online here, the most recent issues include:

• 2012, Fall: “Touchstones, Touchscreens and Timeless Tall Tales: A Feminist Analysis of Communication Practice in Exhibitions,” by Phaedra Livingstone, assistant professor, University of Oregon, Arts and Administration Program (AAD) School of Architecture & Allied Arts (A&AA) and coordinator, Museum Studies
• 2012, Spring: “Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style” by Priscilla Peña Ovalle, associate professor, Department of English & associate director, Cinema Studies
• 2012, Winter: “Partner Violence and Girls’ Educational and Vocational Development” by Krista M. Chronister, associate professor, College of Education, Counseling Psychology Program
• 2011, Fall: “Why Oklahoma? All-Black Towns and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Indian Territory” by Melissa H. Stuckey, assistant professor, Department of History

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

Sandra Morgen; Joan Acker; Jill Weigt. 2010.Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform. Cornell University Press.

Pascoe, Peggy. 2009. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America. Oxford.

Reis, Elizabeth. 2009. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Lynn Fujiwara. 2008. Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform. University of Minnesota Press.

Microfinance

Lamia Karim, 2011. Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh. University of Minnesota Press. Lamia Karim is the associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society and an associate professor in the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology.

Grants and Fellowships

The Center for the Study of Women in Society maintains a number of grant programs to support the work initiated by University of Oregon faculty, staff (with the appropriate end degrees), and graduate students. By providing these highly competitive grants and fellowships, CSWS consistently has supported many important research projects at various stages of development and enriched programs in all sectors of the university. The Center has offered research funding to faculty and graduate students at the University of Oregon for more than 25 consecutive years.

For more details visit: 

http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=16

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. 

Projects:

Leadership and Leadership Development

Women's Leadership Development: Catalyst has conducted national studies on women's leadership that have generated new insights into the progress women have made; the barriers they face; strategies to improve women's advancement; and issues specific to various industries and professions. Reports include, but are not limited to, the following: women scientists; census of corporate top officers and earners; census of female board directors; and women of color in corporate management.

Women in Corporate Leadership: A European Business Imperative. Catalyst and the Conference Board Europe released their first-ever joint study of women and men leading major corporations and firms in Europe. The research was featured at a two-day conference held on Tuesday, June 18th and Wednesday, June 19th. int hie ground-breaking study, Catalyst and the Conference Board Europe surveyed nearly 700 women and men in 20 European countries to determine the success factors and barriers for women in business and identify company initatives that advance women.

Leadership Careers in High Tech: Wired for Success. High tech companies make up an exciting, evolving, and still relatively new industry-one that has changed the way we look at work and careers and indeed all of our lives. This study provides young women in high tech with an easy-to-use road map that they can use to shape their own careers. Though initially intdended for women, this road map is useful for anyone interested in puruing a career in high tech.

The Next Generation: Today's Professionals, Tomorrow's Leaders. This study examines the generation of men and women born between 1964 and 1975 who are now employed in corporations and professional firms. We hear frequently from leaders in the business community how different this generation seems to be and yet how little is known about them. Our goal is to understand more clearly these women and men and their current attitudes toward work and the balance between work and personal life.

Science and Technology

Women in Science. Catalyst reports explore issues of recruitment and retention of women scientists in both academia and the scientific profession.

Women of Color -- Employment Issues

Women of Color in Corporate Management. Catalyst recently held a press breakfast devoted to the topic of women of color in corporate management to highlight the findings of a multi-year, multi-phase research project undertaken by Sheila Wellington. The project concentrates on opportunities and barriers for women of color in managerial roles.

Women of Color: Three Years Later. Now, more than ever, women of color are taking charge of their careers. Building on its groundbreaking research on women of color in corporate management, Catalyst tracked a core group of women of color managers over the past three years to ascertain their career movement and determine the factors behind it. Although current job and career satisfaction is high, these women report a decline in opportunities to advance to senior leadership and are less satisfied with their prospects for further advancement at their current employer.

Work and Family

Workplace Flexibility and Family Support. Catalyst also completes research on workplace flexibility and family support to highlight the work-family barriers faced by women and the support they need to maintain their professional advancement. Research has also been done on what strategies work most effectively to implement this support.

Business Career

Advancing Women Leaders: The Connection Between Women Board Directors and Women Corporate Officers (2008). This research shows that the number of women on a company’s board of directors impacts the future of women in its senior leadership.

Advancing Women in Business: The Catalyst Guide to Best Practices from the Corporate Leaders (1998).

Women in Financial Services: The Word on the Street. This report on women in financial services shedes light on experiences, perceptions, and attitutudes of women in the industry and how they compare to those of male colleagues.

Women in Law: Making the Case. Catalyst's pioneering study of men's and women's career paths in the legal profession, Women in Law explores the obstascles to women's full integration into the legal profession. The report offers recommendations for legal employers on how to achieve strategic goals by retaining and developing women.

Child Care

Child Care Centers: Quality Indicators (1993). A guide for assessing a child care center by adult-child ratios, group sizes, staff qualifications, the work environment, cost, and utilization.

Child Care in Corporate America: Model Programs (1993). An analysis of corporate-sponsored child care, issues pertaining to quality, a discussion with experts, and six model programs.

Corporate Women -- Employment Issues 

Catalyst. June 7, 2013. Managers as Spnosors Toolkin Tool 7: Monitoring Your Progress-- A Sponsorship Tracker.

http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/managers-sponsors-toolkit-tool-7-monitoring-your-progress-sponsorship-tracker

Catalyst. June 7, 2013. Managers as Sponsors Toolkit Tool 6: Consolidating Your Toolkit Responses—A Management Method.

http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/managers-sponsors-toolkit-tool-6-consolidating-your-toolkit-responses-management-method

Catalyst. June 17, 2013. Women CEOs and Heads of the Financial Post 500.

http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-ceos-and-heads-financial-post-500

Catalyst.  2010. Making Mentoring Work. Written by Sarah Dinolfo, and Julie S. Nugent.

http://www.catalyst.org/publication/365/making-mentoring-work

Catalyst. 2010. Making Mentoring Work—Business Case Framework . Writtent by Sarah Dinolfo,  and Julie S. Nugent.

http://www.catalyst.org/publication/366/making-mentoring-workbusiness-case-framework

Catalyst. 2010. Making Mentoring Work—Sample Mentoring Scorecard. Written by Sarah Dinolfo, and Julie S. Nugent.

 http://www.catalyst.org/publication/369/making-mentoring-worksample-mentoring-scorecard

Catalyst. 2010. Making Mentoring Work—Sample Mentor and Mentee Career Development Action Plan. Written by Sarah Dinolfo, and Julie S. Nugent.

http://www.catalyst.org/publication/368/making-mentoring-worksample-mentor-and-mentee-career-development-action-plan

Catalyst. 2010. Making Mentoring Work—Formal Mentoring ROI Spreadsheet Tool. Written by  Sarah Dinolfo, and Julie S. Nugent.

http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/making-mentoring-work%E2%80%94formal-mentoring-roi-spreadsheet-tool

Catalyst 2009. 2009 Catalyst Census: Fortune 500 Women Board Directors. Writtent by Heather Foust-Cummings and Emily Pomeroy.

http://www.catalyst.org/publication/345/2009-catalyst-member-benchmarking-report

Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Strategies for Success (1999). Case studies on how major corporations remove glass ceiling barriers.

Catalyst Census of Women Directors of the Fortune 500 (1998). Published annually since 1993, it lists the women who serve on Fortune 500 boards and how many women are on each company's board.

Catalyst Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners (1998). An annual census showing how women rank among the highest paid executives, which companies and industries have the most female officers, and which states have the highest concentration of women at the top.

Closing the Gap: Women's Advancement in Corporate and Professional Canada (1998). Based on a survey of more than 400 high-level women and nearly 200 chief executives in Canada's largest corporations and professional firms, this study includes the varying perspectives of senior women and chief executives on what holds women back from the top.

Women in Corporate Leadership: Progress and Prospects (1996). A survey of top women managers offering testimony from the women who have made it, as well as the views of Fortune 1000 CEOs.

Knowing the Territory: Women in Sales (1995). Sales representatives, human resources professionals, and sales managers from major American companies discuss what sales organizations can do to attract, retain, and advance women.

The CEO View: Women on Corporate Boards (1995). America's Fortune 1000 CEOs discuss what they expect from female directors and offer insight into the written and unwritten criteria for board nomination.

Women on Corporate Boards: The Challenge of Change (1993). A report about female directors' backgrounds, their expectations of and experience on corporate boards, their feelings about advocacy for women's issues, and the ways in which they relate to female employees of companies on whose boards they serve.

Mentoring: A Guide to Corporate Programs and Practices (1993). A report describing how to identify and advance high-potential women, recruit and train new employees, and avoid common problems.

Creating Successful Mentoring Programs: A Catalyst Guide. This guide teaches you how to identify and advance high-potential women, recruit and train new employees, and avoid common pitfalls of formal mentoring programs. This recently updated report takes you step-by-step through implementing a formal mentoring program.

Women in Corporate Management: Model Programs for Development and Mobility (1991). A report on 17 Fortune 500 companies with exemplary programs for women and why these initiatives are successful.

Creating Women's Networks: A How-To Guide for Women and Companies. A guide to starting and sustaining women's workplace networks based on Catalyst's work.

On The Line: Women's Career Advancement. A report outlining barriers women face and recommending strategies for overcoming them, including examples of America's newest and most creative policies for helping women advance.

Entrepreneurship

Women Entrepreneurs: Why Companies Lose Female Talent and What They Can Do About It (1998). A joint project with the National Foundation for Women Business Owners and The Committee of 200, it discusses the fact that women are starting new businesses at twice the rate of men.

Feminist Thought and Scholarship

The Catalyst Award: Setting the Standard for Women's Advancement. Details Catalyst Award winning initiatives from 1987 to 1997.

Science and Technology

Women in Engineering: An Untapped Resource (1992). Recommendations of what companies can do to attract, retain, and advance women engineers, including initiatives that address barriers, perceptions of male counterparts, and job satisfaction.

Women Scientists in Industry: A Winning Formula for Companies. A study identifying factors in the corporate culture that contribute to or impede the career advancement of women scientists.

Women of Color -- Corporate Women

Catalyst. 2009. Women of Color in U.S. Law Firms - Women of Color in Professional Services Series. Written by Deepali Bagati.

http://www.catalyst.org/publication/344/women-of-color-in-us-law-firmswomen-of-color-in-professional-services-series

Women of Color in Corporate Management: Opportunities and Barriers (1999). The third part of the study that looks at women of color's expectations, experiences, and perceptions of corporate culture and how they affect the women's job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to stay with the company.

Women of Color in Corporate Management: Dynamics of Career Advancement (1998). A discussion of what African-American, Asian-American, and Latina women perceive as barriers to advancement in corporate America. Read Catalyst's recommendations on what companies can do to retain and advance this important segment of their talent pool.

Women of Color in Corporate Management: A Statistical Picture (1997). A combination of census data and previously unpublished information from Catalyst's Women in Corporate Leadership study presents a demographic overview of women managers of color.

International

Catalyst. June 12, 2013. First Step: India Overview. 

http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/first-step-india-overview

Work and Family

Catalyst. 2008. Making Change-Beyond Flexibility: Work-Life Effectiveness as an Organizational Tool for High Performance. Written by Lisa D'Annolfo Levey, Aimee Horowitz, and Meryle Mahrer Kaplan. 

http://www.catalyst.org/publication/318/making-changebeyond-flexibility-creating-champions-for-work-life-effectiveness-spanish-version

Two Careers, One Marriage: Making It Work in the Workplace (1998). Based on the responses of almost 1,000 dual-career earners and aimed at employers, this study describes the issues that mean the most to these couples.

A New Approach to Flexibility: Managing the Work/Time Equation (1997). An assessment of flexible work arrangements describes strategies and solutions.

Making Work Flexible: Policy to Practice (1996). A guide on helping organizations and managers implement and manage flexible work arrangements in corporations and professional firms.

Flexible Work Arrangements II: Succeeding with Part-Time Options (1993). Findings from the first longitudinal study of flexible work arrangements and their effect on employees' career growth.

The Corporate Guide to Parental Leaves (1992). A manual to help employers plan or update a cost-effective parental leave policy, created before the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 went into effect.

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Projects:

# Human Rights
International Issues
Violence Against Women

Women's Rights Network. A project of the Wellesley Centers on Women, the Women's Rights Network was founded in 1995 as an international human rights organization working to end domestic violence and sexual abuse worldwide through organizing, training, research, and public education. The network comprises the Global Network Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse and the Human Rights Education and Advocacy Initiative, and focuses on the Battered Mothers' Testimony Project.

# Violence Against Women

National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center. Another project of the Wellesley Centers on Women is the Prevention Research Center. Funded in 1998 from the Centers for Disease Control, the center is a consortium of researchers dedicated to the prevention of all types of violence against women through the fostering of research-practitioner and interdisciplinary collaboration. The goal is to improve the ability of the field to conduct research that is relevant to the prevention of violence against women, is interdisciplinary, builds on prior research, is conceptually and methodologically sound, and is designed to address violence issues over the life-course.

RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN

# Adolescents and Girls

Adolescent Sexuality Project. Funded by the Ford Foundation, this project seeks to develop models of sexual health for girls and boys which extend beyond pregnancy and disease. Based on Brofenbrenner's ecological model of social experience.

Learning Circles. This project examines the Patriot's Trail and Plymouth Bay Girl Scouts Council Learning Circles in an effort to create Learning Circles for mentoring girls ages 10-12. These circles will provide an opportunity where girls can meet regularly with adults to discuss personal issues of importance.

Raising Confident and Competent Girls. This longitudinal study looks at middle girls' perceptions of their competencies, actual school performance, and perceptions of social support in the following categories: race/ethnicity; social class; acculturation; and residence urbanization.

Sports as Protective of Girls' High-Risk Sexual Behavior. Researchers are conducting secondary analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health dataset to examine the protective effects of sports involvement on adolescents' likelihood of engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors.

# Child Care

The Early Childhood Connection. Aimed at children up to 5 years old, the Early Childhood Connection project provides resources for parents, providers, and policymakers by running workshops devoted to topics such as finding quality child care, curriculum for children, using the Internet, combining work and family, and more.

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care. This NICHD undertaking is the most comprehensive child care study conducted to date in the United States. It analyzes the impact on child development and family functioning of child care and maternal employment from one month of age through first grade. Ten nationwide sites have been selected; the study includes 1,300 infants and their families.

National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST). The National Institute is located at the Wellesley Center for Research on Women and conducts policy-oriented and basic research on issues that affect women. The mission is to improve the quantity and quality of school-age care programs nationally by concentrating on research; education and training; consultation; program and community development; and public awareness. The following are undertakings of NIOST:

Cross-Cities Network (CCN).The CCN brings together leaders from 25 citywide after-school initiatives in major cities across the United States. The three primary goals of this project are to increase the capacity and knowledge of high-level leaders, to improve the effectiveness of citywide after school initiatives, and to contribute to the development of a coherent vision for the field at the national level.

Strategic Planning: Building a Skilled and Stable Workforce for After School Programs. The National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), in collaboration with the AED Center for Youth Development and Policy Research (the Center) is engaged in a 9-month, national strategic planning process for workforce development across the after school field.

Evaluation of Jacksonville Children's Commission's (JCC) After-School Program Initiatives. TEAM UP is a solution of the Jacksonville community to help its families meet the challenges of raising youth in today's society by providing a safe, structured, positive learning environment during the after school hours.

Puerto Rican Young Fathers' Involvement with Their Children. The research team aims to describe what predisposes Puerto Rican young men to become the kind of fathers they are by interviewing a random sample of 300 Puerto Rican young fathers (aged 18 to 26).

The Empathy Project. One of the major developmental tasks of preschoolers is to develop empathy (the ability to understand and share in waht others are feeling), sharing and cooperation, and othersocial skills they will need as they mature. Empathy is a building block for other kinds of "prosocial behavior"- that is, helping, sharing, and comforting- and one of the cornerstones of later social competence.

# Education

Women in Community Development (WICD) Higher Education for Lower-Income Women: A Real Route Out of Poverty. Begun in 1997, WICD is a joint venture of Project Hope, the Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development, and the College of Public and Community Service (CPCS) at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. With funding provided by the Nellie Mae Foundation, Senior Research Scientist Fern Marx consulted with WICD staff, program participants, and an evaluation advisory group in order to help the program better understand its work and establish in-house monitoring, accountability, and evaluation activities to guide future program development.

# Education
Curriculum

Shaping a Better World: Global Issues Teaching Guide. A guide for middle school teachers designed to help them teach about the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and the critical issues discussed at that conference.

Bringing Yourself to Work: Caregiving in After-School Environments. A new training model for after-school program staff that places emphasis on the importance of self-awareness among caregivers.

Higher Education Resource Services. HERS, New England now provides an unusual in-service model of administrative training- The Management Institute for Women in Higher Education.

National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). The SEED Initiative is a staff-development equity project for educators. It establishes teacher-led, faculty development seminars in public and private schools to promote gender-fair and multiculturally equitable materials and curriculum.

Summer Institute (for Science Teachers) on Gender Equity. This institute works to help teachers devise gender-equitable teaching methods and materials.

# Employment
Aging

Assessing the Relational Resources of Older Workers (ARROW). A project of the Center for Research on Women, ARROW received funding from the National Institute on Aging in 2001. This study is investigating the workplace-relevant relational beliefs of older workers and is developing a measure to assess relational beliefs among this population. Project staff are collecting data through in-person, semi-structured interviews with Boston-area workers aged 55+ both female and male.

# Global Issues
Economic & Social Status of Women

Experiencing Globalization: The Construction of Gender and Ethnicity in the TNC Workplace. This project focuses on Korean immigrant women workers' experiences of globalization in the workplace. Because work and identity are central features of modern life, this study enhances our understanding of the globalization process and how it intersects with the specific features of the workplace to configure many dimensions of identity.

# Health and Health Care
Mental Health

Women Involved in Living and Learning (WILL)/Westhampton Reports: A Research Agenda for the WILL Program. Westhampton College and WCW attempt to address low self-esteem through a three-pronged attack: women's studies coursework; co-curricular programming on gender issues; and collective action that fosters self-awareness and confidence. This project is based on successful work completed by Westhampton and seeks to create a new agenda to improve self-esteem and confidence.

# Literature

Women's Review of Books. A publication that reviews the latest books on or by women, in addition to offering comment and criticism.

# Sexual Assault/Harassment

Project on Teasing and Bullying. The Project on Teasing and Bullying seeks to examine and counteract the effects of the culture of bullying on children and youth. Central to this work is the impact of societal messages about gender and gender roles on the development of aggressive and violent behavior. The project addresses these complex issues through a combination of research, action, and advocacy.

Sexual Harassment in the Schools. Addresses gender violence and the need for acknowledgment and information about gender violence in the schools and curriculum.

# Welfare Reform

The Effects of Maternal Welfare on Children's Outcomes. Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, this project investigates the effects of partial welfare receipt on things like the well-being of children, measuring development, health, education, and fertility behavior.

# Work and Family

The Changing Workforce. The U.S. workforce is changing, with rising rates of employment in service industries, diversification of the workfroce with respect to gender and race or ethnicity, and rising rates of employment among workers over the age of 50.

RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE STONE CENTER

# Communication
Mental Health

Gender Relations Project. This project seeks to promote healthy, mutually enhancing connections between women and men and boys and girls, and in couples, families, schools, and organizations.

The Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. The institute follows the Relational/Cultural Model developed by the Stone Center, which advocates that growth-fostering connections are the central human necessity and disconnections are the source of psychological problems. Jean Baker offers residential and training programs for people with master's degrees in clinical areas, RNs, MDs, and PhDs.

Wellesley Relational Model Instrument Development. The Relational Model was developed in 1991 as a theoretical feminist paradigm for the assessment of women's psychological development and well-being. It is distinguished due to its emphasis on gender difference and on the power of caretaking and relationships in women's lives.

# Education
K-12

Reach Out to Schools: Social Competency Program. This program is a comprehensive social and emotional learning program for children in kindergarten through fifth grade, their teachers, and their parents. It features an Open Circle Curriculum, which aims to foster positive relationships in a cooperative classroom environment and enhance the necessary skills to solve interpersonal problems. Additionally, it offers training programs for parents, teachers, and staff.

Reach Out to Schools: Social Competency Program Assessment Project. The goal of this initiative is to improve the social skills of children, encourage problem resolution, increase relationship building, and foster a caring and respectful environment for elementary aged school children.

# Education
Mental Health
Higher Education

Assessment of Relational Health and Psychological Development Among College Women. In conjunction with the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute and Office of Counseling Services, this project aims to address relational health and the psychological development of college-age women.

# Violence Against Women
Mental Health

Adult Memories and Consequences and Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse. Currently being undertaken by center staff, this longitudinal study looks at adult memories, negative outcomes, and resiliency of women and men who were sexually abused as children.

Longitudinal Research on Partner Violence, Child Physical Abuse, and Child Sexual Abuse. A comprehensive follow-up study, this project studies families in which physical and/or sexual abuse has occurred with the aim of creating programs and policies that will prevent and treat family violence and promote child safety and family functioning.

de Alwis, Rangita de Silva. 2010. New and Emerging Developments in Gender and Law in China.

The Stone Center and Center for Research on Women publishes the WCW Publications Catalog annually in January/February. This catalog contains working papers, works-in-progress, special reports, curriculum, books, and tapes of current Center work.

In the News is an insert published twice a year in the membership newsletter, Memberlink.

WCW Progress Report details project information, funding, major research findings, lists of events, conferences, colloquia, institutes, workshops, etc.

Research Report is published twice a year in the spring and fall and updates readers on the status of the center's projects and programs.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN

Links to Learning: Supporting Learning in Out-of-School Time Programs, NIOST (2002). This lively video, aimed at practitioners and policy makers, delivers a clear message about the unique role after-school programs play in supporting children's learning and development.

New Perspectives on Compensation Strategies for the Out-of-School Time Workforce, Gwen Morgan and Brooke Harvey (2002). In this paper we touch briefly upon the unique characteristics of the out-fo-school time workforce that contribute to inadequate compensation and we explore workforce compensation more deeply from the perspective of economics.

Working Together for Children and Families: A Community's Guide to Making the MOST of Out-of-School Time, MOST Initiative (2001).

Fact Sheet on School-Age Children's Out-of-School Time, NIOST (2001).

A Place of Their Own: Designing Quality Space for Out-of-School Time, NIOST (2001).

The Road to SAC Professionalism: Emerging Models, Trends, and Issues in Credentializing, Liz Nilsen (1999). This paper presents and discusses results from a nation-wide survey conducted on current state efforts toward establishing school-age credentials.

Literacy: Exploring Strategies to Enhance Learning in After-School Programs, Kathryn Hynes, Susan O'Connor, An-Me Chung (1999). This paper explores different ways that after-school programs can support children's literacy development.

MOST Initiative: Making the MOST of Out-of-School Time: The Human Side of Quality (1998). A short video discussing the importance of the relationships that children develop in out-of-school programs, with ideas on how to support children's social and emotional needs.

SACC Project Fact Sheet on School-Age Children (1998). A fact sheet providing demographics of how children use their out-of-school time.

Homework Assistance and Out-of-School Time: Filling the Need, Finding a Balance, Susan O'Connor and Kate McGuire (1998). A research paper designed to help out-of-school programs design their role in providing homework assistance.

Homework and Out-of-School Time Programs: Filling the Need, Finding a Balance, Susan O'Connor and Kate McGuire (1998). A booklet summarizing the main points from the paper on homework assistance.

Making the MOST of Out-of-School Time: Technology's Role in Collaboration, Lilian Coltin and Kate McGuire (1997).

Growing Together: Connections Between School-Age Care and Youth Work Professionals, Marie E. Esposito (1997).

Twelve Key Elements for Higher Education Training: A Conceptual Framework for the Field of School-Age Care, Marie E. Esposito and Joan Costley (1997).

I Wish the Kids Didn't Watch So Much TV: Out-of-School Time in Three Low Income Communities, Full Report, Beth Miller, Susan O'Connor, Sylvia W. Sirignano, and Pamela Joshi (1997). Describes the findings of a study of children's out-of-school time.

#4 Out-of-School Time: Effects on Learning in the Primary Grades, Beth Miller (1995). Describes some of the major issues raised by research on the effects of out-of-school time on children's learning and discusses possible responses to the issues raised by the literature.

SACC Project National Study of Before-and After-School Programs, Executive Summary, U.S. Dept. of Education (1993). An assessment of the prevalence, structure, and features of formal programs that offer enrichment, academic instruction, recreation, and supervised care for children between the ages of 5 and 13 before and after school, as well as on vacations and holidays.

Older Women in the United States, Betty Greenfield, Nancy Emerson Lombardo, and Rosalind C. Barnett (1999). Conference report discussing the changing context for older women in the U.S. and examining some of the outdated and restrictive ideas embedded in society about older women's physical abilities, relationships, and economic options.

Relational Resources and Older Adults, Anne E. Noonan (2001). This paper suggests areas in which relational/cultural theory can inform more mainstream gerontological research.

Parting Company: Understanding the Loss of a Loved One, Cynthia Pearson, Margaret L. Stubbs (1999).

The Cost and Quality of Full Day, Year-round Early Care and Education in Massachusetts: Preschool Classrooms, Nancy L. Marshall, Cindy L. Creps, Nancy R. Burstein, Frederic B. Glantz, Wendy Wagner Robeson, Steve Barnett (2001). This report reveals what key factors are related to better-quality early care and education for peschoolers.

The Relevance of Self at Work: Emotional Intelligence and Staff Training in After-School Environments, Michelle Seligson and Marybeth MacPhee (2001). This paper examines how adult educators in after-school programs can mobilize their inner-resources and social-emotional aptitude to achieve good relationships with their coworkers and with the children in their care.

Parent Involvement as a Predictor of Student Achiveement for Low-Income Children, Michelle Porche (2000). This paper investigates the relationship between parent involvement over time and children's academic achievement for a sample of low-income families participating in a longitudinal study of language and literacy development.

How Do You Advance Quality Child Care? SACC (1999).

Estimating the Unmet Need for Child Care Services in Massachusetts, Magaly Queralt, Ann Dryden Witte (1999). In this paper the authors propose a novel way of conceptualizing unmet need for social services as well as a systematic and unique method of identifying the geographic areas where it exists, using a child care illustration.

After-School Programs and the K-8 Principal: Standards for Quality School-Age Child Care (Revised), National Association of Elementary School Principals (1999). This publication was developed to provide practical assistance with: guidelines for administration and programming; resources for information, collaboration, and funding; checklists for program evaluation and improvement planning.

A Resource Guide for School-Age Child Care, Kathryn A. Wheeler (1998). A listing of books, videos, and organizations that would be of interest to after-school providers.

Child Care in Massachusetts: Where the Supply Is and Isn't, Magaly Queralt, Ann Dryden Witte (1997). This publication uses sophisticated graphics and statistical modeling to examine the availability of child care to low-income families.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE STONE CENTER

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

The Relational Model of Women's Psychological Development: Implications for Substance Abuse, Stephanie S. Covington, Janet Surrey (2000). This paper describes the basic tenets of the Stone Center's Relational Model of women's development and considers the model's implications for the etiology, treatment, recovery, and prevention of substance abuse in women.

Videotapes and Manuals of Project W.A.I.T. (Wellesley Improv Theatre):

 

• Education
  
  
• Employment Issues
  
  
• Family
  
  
• Health and Health Care
  
  
• Lesbian and Gay Studies
  
  
• Mental Health
  
  
• Sexual Harassment
     Violence Against Women
     Mental Health

Gender and Race Patterns in the Pathways from School-Based Sports Participation to Self-Esteem, Allison J. Tracy and Sumru Erkut (2001). This working paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health on Caucasian and African American girls and boys.

The Skin We're In: Teaching Our Children to Be: Emotionally Strong, Socially Smart, Spiritually Connected, Janie Victoria Ward (2000). In 1990-1991 the author received a Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to design and implement a research project on raising balck adolescents around issues of race in the post civil rights era. IN 1996-1997, as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Wellesly Centers for Women, her analysis of that data became the foundation of this latest work.

Protective Effects of Sports Participation on Girls' Sexual Behavior, Sumru Erkut, Allison Tracy (2000). Based on secondary analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this paper shows that among high school girls, participation in sports is associated with a later age of becoming sexually active.

Raising Confident and Competent Girls: How Middle Schools Can Support Girls, Fern Marx, Sumru Erkut, Jacqueline Fields, Jacklyn Blake Clayton (2000). This is a facilitators' training manual for conducting a research-based workshop for middle school educators, staff of youth-serving organizations, and parents.

Doing Research in a Disadvantaged Population: Methods of Obtaining and Retaining Samples, Sumru Erkut, Cynthia Garcia Coll, Odette Alarcon (1999). Drawing on two studies of community-based samples of minority youth, this paper describes methods used to increase volunteering and retention that are important for the validity of results obtained in longitudinal studies.

The Femininity Ideology Scale: Development and Validation of a New Measure of Gender, Deborah L. Tolman, Michelle V. Porche (1999). This paper describes the development and validation of the Femininity Ideology Scale (FIS) through three studies with racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse early, middle, and late adolescent girls.

Normative Study of Puerto Rican Adolescents- Final Report, Sumru Erkut, Odette Alarcon, Cynthia Garcia Coll (1999). This final report of the longitudinal study of Puerto Rican adolescents' development includes a discussion of the methodological advances and notable findings generated by the research team as well as the results of the cross-sectional and longidudinal hypotheses that guided the study.

Raising Confident and Competent Girls: Implications of Diversity, Sumru Erkut, Fern Marx, Jacqueline P. Fields, and Rachel Sing (1998). A study of African-American, Caucasian, Chinese-American, and Puerto Rican middle school girls' self evaluations.

Stereotyped Perceptions of Mainland Puerto Rican Adolescents' Behaviors, Sumru Erkut, Odette Alarcón, Cynthia García Coll, Laura Szalacha, and Wanda Guzman (1996). Describes two studies, one that examines the extent of Puerto Rican youth's self-reported risk taking and another that investigates community perceptions of the risk-taking of Puerto Rican youth.

Books for Boys and Girls Today: An Annotated Bibliography of Non-sexist Books for Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers, Carrie Spillane, and Maureen Crowley (1996). A list of books for infants, toddlers and preschoolers; also includes publisher information for each book.

Mutual Psychological Development Among Latina Girls, Nancy P. Genero (1996). A video in which the speaker discusses Latina adolescent girls' perceptions of their close relationships.

Language Development from Birth to Six Months, Wendy Wagner Robeson (1996). Discusses stages of language development through which infants pass before speaking their first words. It outlines activities that adults and others can use to promote and encourage early communication efforts in infants, and explains why they enhance linguistic development.

Raising Competent Girls: An Exploratory Study of Diversity In Girls' Views of Liking One's Self, Sumru Erkut, and Fern Marx (1995). A study of middle school girls' understanding of what it means for a girl to like herself and what advice they would give new parents on how to raise their baby girl so she will grow up to have a positive regard for herself.

Engaging in Culturally Sensitive Research on Puerto Rican Youth, Odette Alarcón, Sumru Erkut, Cynthia Garcia Coll, and Heidie A. Vázquez (1994). A description of two culturally sensitive longitudinal studies of normal development of Puerto Rican adolescents and Puerto Rican children growing up in the U.S.

Girls in Schools: A Bibliography of Research on Girls in U.S. Public Schools (Kindergarten through Grade 12), Susan McGee Bailey (1992). Books, reports and journal articles listed by topic headings, including sex and gender socialization, teen pregnancy and parenting, vocational education, sexual harassment, and women in educational leadership.

New Economic Trends for Women's Employment: Implications for Girls' Vocational Education, Lynn C. Burbridge (1992). Reviews literature on the effectiveness of secondary level vocational education programs and on the impact of these programs on girls and young women.

Body Talk, Margaret L. Stubbs (1990). A set of four pamphlets designed to help early adolescents find answers to their questions about pubertal growth.

After School Programs for Low-Income Young Adolescents: Overview and Program Profiles, Fern Marx (1989). Discusses the incidence and consequences of self-care for young, low-income adolescents, provides criteria for developing good programs, and profiles 18 programs that are successfully serving this population.

Becoming a Woman: Considerations in Educating Adolescents About Menstruation, Margaret L. Stubbs, Jill Rierdan, and Elissa Koff (1988). Reviews findings on the psychological significance of menstruation and offers recommendations for improving menstrual education for both girls and boys.

Sign up for the The National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) 2013 Summer Seminars:

http://niost.org/Summer-Seminars/summer-seminars-2013

Apply for the 2013 SEED Leadership Training (Deadline May 15, 2013):

http://www.wcwonline.org/Projects-Extra-Information/join-us-for-seed-training

Earn 5 CEUs >> JBMTI Conference: Raising Connected and Competent Boys: New Models of Strength and Resilience:

http://www.jbmti.org/Upcoming-Events/raising-21st-century-boys-connected-competent-thriving